Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin

Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide partially or fully compensated time away from work to covered individual who meets certain criteria while covered individual is on family leave, medical leave or safe leave. Requires employer and employee contributions to fund program. Establishes requirements for employers related to required contributions. Creates exemption from employer contribution requirements for employers that employ fewer than 25 employees. Provides grant program for certain employers to defray costs. Allows Director of Employment Department to assess civil penalties in specified circumstances. Authorizes director to bring civil action against employer for failure to file required reports and pay contributions due. Provides that employers shall be personally liable for contribution amounts due. Makes employer's violation of provisions of Act punishable by specified imprisonment, fine or both. Allows self-employed individuals and tribal government employers to elect family and medical leave insurance coverage. Directs director to determine contribution amounts and weekly benefit amounts for self-employed individuals and tribal government employers that elect coverage. Protects eligible employee's position of employment with employer while employee is on leave if employee has been employed with employer for 90 days before commencing leave. Prohibits employer from retaliating against employee who inquires about rights or responsibilities under family and medical leave insurance program and from interfering with employee rights under program. Establishes right for civil action for certain employer violations. Establishes Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund as trust fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Employment Department for purposes of Act. Appropriates moneys to department to cover start-up costs related to program. Permits director to contract with third party to serve as administrator of program. Provides that employer may apply to director for approval of employer-offered benefit plan that provides family and medical leave insurance benefits that are equivalent to or better than leave and benefit amounts available under family and medical leave insurance program established by department. Establishes requirements for employers. Requires director to establish by rule application process for employers and method for resolving disputes between employers and employees concerning coverage and benefits provided under approved plan. Provides that employers may apply to director for approval of plan. Requires director to establish process for review of final decisions regarding benefit claims, benefit amounts, receipt of benefits and repayment of benefits. Provides that provisions of Act do not require reopening or renegotiation of collective bargaining agreement entered into before effective date of Act. Requires director to submit progress reports to interim committee of Legislative Assembly. Requires director to submit periodic report concerning administration of family and medical leave insurance program, including recommendations made by advisory committee. Provides specified delayed operative dates. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Eliminates requirement that person provide proof of legal presence before Department of Transportation issues noncommercial driver license, noncommercial driver permit or identification card. Becomes operative January 1, 2021. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Modifies definition of "exempt prohibited individual." Prohibits permanently from providing child care individuals who have been subject of substantiated report of child abuse in which victim suffered serious harm or death and individuals who are required to report as sex offenders. Requires certain individuals who have been subject of founded or substantiated report of child abuse to apply and be enrolled in Central Background Registry prior to providing certain types of care. Modifies definition of "subject individual." Authorizes Office of Child Care to impose civil penalty and file for injunctive relief if subject individual has not applied to and been enrolled in Central Background Registry and the individual provides child care or has child in individual's care. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires state to pay for ballot return envelopes that can be returned by business reply mail, or other mailing service determined by Secretary of State to be more cost effective or efficient, for each election held in this state. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs each covered manufacturer of covered drugs that are sold within this state to develop and implement drug take-back program for purpose of collecting from individuals and nonbusiness entities covered drugs for disposal. Defines "covered drug" and "covered manufacturer." Supersedes and preempts local government ordinance or regulation establishing or requiring program similar to drug take-back program. Directs Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Quality Commission to administer Act. Requires covered manufacturers subject to Act to first submit plan for participating in drug take-back program on or before November 1, 2020. Requires drug take-back programs to be operational by July 1, 2021. Becomes operative January 1, 2020. Sunsets September 15, 2031. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes Task Force on Universal Health Care Commission ] charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents. Specifies membership and duties of commission ] task force . Requires recommendations to be guided by specified values and principles. Prescribes requirements for plan design and items that commission ] task force must consider. Requires commission to first meet by November 1, 2019, and provide first report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by March 15, 2020. Requires commission ] members of task force to be appointed by May 31, 2020, and task force to submit to 2021 regular session of Legislative Assembly final recommendations by February 1, 2021, or report on work that remains to be completed ] for design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan and Health Care for All Oregon Board . Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for Medicaid Buy-In program. Specifies elements that must be included in plan, to extent feasible. Requires authority to provide report to Legislative Assembly, no later than May 1, 2020, containing discussion of potential eligibility requirements for Medicaid Buy-In program or public option, options for targeting specified groups, recommendations for legislative changes necessary to implement plan and any federal approval that would be required to implement plan. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires facilities to have designated individual with specialized training to be responsible for carrying out infection prevention and control protocols. Requires Department of Human Services, in coordination with Oregon Health Authority, to communicate regularly with facility administrators regarding best practices and protocols and to notify facilities of elevated risk of disease outbreak in facility's community. Requires administrators and certain employees of facilities and adult foster homes to be trained in preventing and containing disease outbreaks and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to have inspection by department of kitchen and other areas where food is prepared to ensure compliance with health and sanitation laws. Requires Long Term Care Ombudsman to notify licensing agency about any disease outbreak reported to ombudsman by residents or identified by ombudsman and to train designees on how to identify and report disease outbreaks. Applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2021.

Modifies provisions of state law regarding custody of children or youth who have run away from home or placement to apply to all runaways. Modifies standards for taking child into protective custody with or without court order. Permits application for protective custody order by declaration or sworn oral statement. Permits person conducting child abuse investigation involving child with suspicious physical injuries to take child into protective custody only for period of time necessary to ensure that child is immediately photographed and, within 48 hours, assessed by medical professional.

Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage. Specifies eligibility requirements for program and duties of authority in administering program. ] Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens. Requires department to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health, no later than April 15, 2020, findings of study and cost of administering program to provide oral health care to COFA citizens residing in this state. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Allows option to obtain title, but not registration, from Department of Transportation for recreational vehicle qualifying as park model recreational vehicle and meeting other criteria. Provides that recreational vehicle having title issued by Department of Transportation does not qualify as structure. Requires owner to surrender Department of Transportation title for recreational vehicle if converting recreational vehicle to use as structure. Makes recreational vehicle converted to use as structure subject to state building code. Requires seller of new recreational vehicle to provide purchaser with written information listing specified living area systems. Requires that information state for each listed system whether items or components comprising system are covered by warranty and, if so, extent and length of warranty. Removes recreational vehicle construction from regulation by Department of Consumer and Business Services. Changes definition of "recreational vehicle."