Sen. Lew Frederick

Prohibits State Board of Education, school district or public charter school from requiring student to pass test to demonstrate proficiency in Essential Learning Skills in order to receive diploma. Directs school district or public charter school that did not award person diploma because person did not pass test to demonstrate proficiency in Essential Learning Skills to award diploma to person upon request of person. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects for school districts.

Provides that student who experiences incident of harassment, discrimination or intimidation based on student's race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or national origin, has cause of action against school district and perpetrator of incident. Requires school district to report incident of harassment, discrimination or intimidation based on student's race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or national origin, to hate crimes hotline and school safety tip line. Directs school district to approve transfer request when student has experienced incident of harassment, discrimination or intimidation based on student's race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or national origin. Modifies crimes of bias crime in the second degree and bias crime in the first degree.

In memoriam: Secretary of State and former state Representative Dennis Michael Richardson, 1949-2019.

Requires school district applying for grant from Student Investment Account to specify how mental and behavioral health needs of certain students will be met with moneys from grant. Requires review of use of grant moneys to meet students' mental and behavioral health needs.

Directs Department of Education to request waiver of federal academic assessment requirements for 2020-2021 school year. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Includes matters concerning apprenticeship or training program administered by certain mass transit districts as mandatory subject of collective bargaining for employees of district.

Prohibits employers from permitting , or ] requiring or suffering agricultural workers to work in excess of 40 ] certain maximum hours in one workweek unless workers are compensated for overtime hours worked. Phases in requirement over three calendar years. Authorizes Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to enforce wage claim regarding overtime pay for agricultural workers. Authorizes commissioner to assess civil penalty for willful violations of overtime pay requirements. Requires Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement overtime compensation payment program to assist employers of agricultural workers in paying required overtime to workers. Establishes Agricultural Worker Overtime Account. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for deposit into account to carry out purposes of program. Sunsets program on January 2, 2026.

Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to make changes to statewide land use planning goals by December 31, 2026, to address climate justice by addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation and environmental justice for disadvantaged communities. ] Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to establish environmental justice advisory committee. ] Requires commission to adopt interim climate justice standards for local government's use until meeting compliance with goal changes. Establishes deadlines for compliance with interim standards and changed goals. ] Establishes Climate Justice Planning Goals Fund. Appropriates moneys to fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to commission for specified purposes. ] Sunsets interim standards on January 2, 2030. Sunsets goal amendment process after commission certifies adoption of goal. ] Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups. Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to amend goal by June 30, 2023, consistent with requirement. Establishes timelines for local governments to implement amended goal. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for goal amendment and implementation. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Modifies Senate Rules to permit parking permits supplied to staff and staff reimbursement for costs incurred by staff in parking at or near State Capitol building to be paid for out of members' services and supplies accounts.