Sen. Floyd Prozanski

Modifies definition of "labor contractor" to include property services contractor. Requires Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to establish procedures for licensing of property services contractors. Requires commissioner to adopt rules for property services contractors to provide training to employees with respect to sexual harassment, discrimination and whistleblower protection.

Reestablishes Task Force on Reentry, Employment and Housing. Requires report to Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2018. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires large employers in specified industries to provide new employee with estimated work schedule and to provide current employee with seven days' notice of employee work schedule. Extends work schedule notice period to two weeks effective July 1, 2020. Permits large employers in specified industries to maintain list of employees for work shift coverage in certain circumstances. Prohibits large employers in specified industries from scheduling work shifts that do not allow sufficient break time in between shifts unless employee earns 1.5 times scheduled rate of pay. Requires large employers in specified industries to pay penalty wage if employer changes scheduled shift with less than seven days' notice. Provides exception to penalty wage in certain circumstances. Requires large employers in specified industries to maintain records relating to compliance for three years. Makes unlawful employment practice for large employers in specified industries to interfere with employee rights or retaliate against employee for exercising rights granted to employee under Act. Allows for administrative or civil cause of action and statutory penalties for each violation. Repeals sunset of preemption of local government regulation of work schedules. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study expenditure of public moneys on alcohol and drug treatment and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2019. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for purposes of study and report. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Creates process by which certain persons who practice profession related to enforcing or providing for public health and safety and who, in performance of official duties, come into contact with blood, bodily fluid or other potentially infectious material of another person may petition court for order compelling testing of other person for communicable disease. Requires court to order testing upon showing that circumstances create probable cause to conclude that petitioner's contact with source person constitutes direct contact with blood, bodily fluids or other potentially infectious materials of person, and that contact is capable of transmitting communicable disease. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires school districts, education service districts and public charter schools to adopt Healthy and Safe Schools Plan to address environmental conditions in facilities owned or leased by districts or schools where students or staff are present on regular basis. Requires districts and schools to provide Department of Education with copies of plans. Requires districts and schools to annually review plan and revise as necessary. Specifies minimum content for plan. Requires department to develop model plan as guidance for districts and schools. Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to develop recommendations regarding practices for reducing environmental conditions that may present health concerns. Requires authority to develop information sheets concerning environmental conditions that may present health concerns. Requires department to make opportunities for professional development available to district and school staff regarding plan requirements and information reporting. Requires school districts, education service districts and public charter schools to make results of testing under plan available to public. Requires districts and schools to provide annual statement regarding plan. Specifies minimum content for statement. Specifies recipients of statement. Requires posting statement on website if website is available. Establishes Healthy School Facilities Fund. Appropriates moneys from fund to department for purpose of financial assistance to school districts, education service districts and public charter schools in adoption, administration and enforcement of Healthy and Safe Schools Plans. Expands types of assessment qualifying for Office of School Facilities hardship grants to include school district assessment for environmental hazards under plan. Reduces total amount that may be biennially distributed from State School Fund as facility grants. Provides for biennial transfer from State School Fund to Healthy School Facilities Fund. Limits uses for transferred moneys. Makes reduction in total amount distributed as facility grants and transfer of State School Fund moneys to Healthy School Facilities Fund applicable for biennia beginning on or after July 1, 2019. Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt mandatory guidelines regarding testing for, and reducing exposure to, lead in water used for drinking or food preparation for inclusion in Healthy and Safe Schools Plans. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for 2017-2019 biennium to carry out provisions of Act. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.

Amends Oregon Promise program to remove prohibition on awarding more than $10 million in grants per fiscal year. Makes requirement that person participating in program pay $50 per term in tuition payable by reducing amount of grant awarded, instead of requiring separate payment by person. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to determine prior to start of fall term each academic year whether sufficient moneys exist to award grant to each person who qualifies. Permits commission to limit eligibility to receive grant based on expected family contribution. Permits commission to decrease total amount of grant awarded or increase amount person must pay for each term person receives grant if at any time commission determines that insufficient moneys exist to provide grant to each person who was awarded grant. Permits commission to at any time reduce or eliminate any limitation on eligibility imposed by commission due to shortage of moneys. Allows person to continue to qualify for program if, after being awarded grant, person enters into service with career and technical student organization relating to agriculture or farming that is approved by Department of Education before attending community college. Exempts person serving in Oregon National Guard from requirement to enroll in community college courses within six months of attaining previous highest level of education in order to qualify for Oregon Promise grant, provided that person enrolls in community college courses within six months of completing initial active duty training. Allows commission, upon showing of significant hardship, to waive requirement that in order to qualify for program person start attending classes at community college within six months after person completed previous highest level of education. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Creates crime of unlawful use of a global positioning system device. Punishes by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, or, if person at time of offense has certain previous convictions or is subject of certain court orders, five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.

Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death. Directs State Court Administrator to annually adjust limit on noneconomic damages, beginning in 2018. Specifies method by which administrator must make adjustment. Corrects inaccurate reference for definition. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires State Department of Agriculture to classify neonicotinoids as restricted use pesticides. Requires department to restrict sale and use of pesticide products containing neonicotinoids. Creates exceptions. Requires that information concerning restrictions on neonicotinoid use be included in educational materials developed by Oregon State University and department.