Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures. Defines "ophthalmic surgery." Removes requirement that optometrist treating patient with antiglaucoma medication consult with ophthalmologist. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Bottle Bill Expansion Task Force. Directs task force to evaluate and make recommendations for establishing refund value for certain beverage containers. Sunsets December 31, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes product stewardship program for mattresses. Establishes Mattress Stewardship Fund. Establishes mattress stewardship program advisory committee. Requires stewardship organizations to submit plans for mattress stewardship programs to Department of Environmental Quality. Imposes civil penalties for violation of program provisions not to exceed, per day for each day of violation, $100 for violation by retailer, $1,000 for violation by producer or renovator and $1,000 for violation by stewardship organization. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies procedures for early medical release of adult in custody from prison. Directs Department of Corrections to inform adults in custody concerning release process and develop application form. Establishes Medical Release Advisory Committee within State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. Specifies qualifications of members of committee. Requires board to follow release recommendation of committee unless adult in custody poses specific danger to another person or public that outweighs compassionate reasons for release. Provides that staff attorney of committee may petition court for resentencing in order to effectuate early medical release. Directs Department of Corrections to annually report data concerning medical release to committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to develop and administer a community restoration ] program for providing guardianship services to defendants who are unable to aid and assist in their defense and who will be released into community. Appropriates moneys to Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator for program. Authorizes court in criminal proceeding to appoint temporary guardian. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage. Requires public institutions of higher education to pay for remaining costs of insurance premiums under process established by Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Permits institution to agree through collective bargaining to pay portion of health care benefits paid for by employee. Provides that unless otherwise agreed through collective bargaining, employees who are eligible to receive health care benefits in manner specified may receive health care benefits from institution only in manner specified. Provides that any savings realized by institution are subject to collective bargaining. Requires legacy health benefit coverage to be maintained for part-time faculty at institutions who are not eligible for health care benefits under provisions. Establishes Part-Time Faculty Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to board. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Lowers estimated contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to public improvement contracts with state contracting agencies from $1 million to $200,000 and raises percentage of work hours that apprentices must perform from 12 percent to 15 percent. Requires subcontractors on public improvement contracts to make good-faith efforts to encourage minority individuals, women, economically disadvantaged individuals, socially disadvantaged individuals and service-disabled veterans to become apprentices with subcontractor. Specifies actions that constitute good-faith efforts. Requires bidder or proposer for public improvement contract to demonstrate to state contracting agency that bidder or proposer is training agent for apprentices in apprenticeable occupations and will require subcontractors to which bidder awards subcontracts to also be training agents. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies. Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination by major political parties for federal and state partisan offices.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality , in consultation with Public Utility Commission and State Department of Energy, to study fugitive methane emissions from natural gas production , storage, and ] transportation and delivery and provide results of study and recommendations for legislation in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September ] November 15, 2022. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Prohibits Public Utility Commission from acknowledging in integrated resource plan, or allowing in customer rates, costs of investment in or upgrade of renewable energy facility, or certain contracts to acquire electricity, unless energy proposed to be acquired is generated by renewable energy facility constructed in compliance with certain labor standards. Sets forth labor standards for construction of renewable energy facilities. Requires commission to adopt rules for implementation. Requires commission and State Department of Energy, in coordination with Bureau of Labor and Industries, to adopt rules related to labor and workforce standards for renewable energy facilities.
