Requires Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department to award grants. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin
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Requires residential care facilities to provide written notice to applicants for admission and to current residents upon request regarding services, types and level of care, potential for resident to be required to leave facility if facility can no longer meet resident's needs for care and services, possibility of resident not being permitted to return to facility if resident leaves facility for acute care and resident's right to appeal facility's decision to remove resident or to not permit resident to return after receiving acute care. Establishes requirements for written notice. Extends, for one year, deadline for residential care facilities to report on quality metrics and for Department of Human Services to publish report on residential care facilities' quality metrics. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Department of Corrections to offer immunization against influenza virus to each inmate in physical custody of department. Requires department to schedule appointment to receive immunization for each inmate who does not decline immunization in writing. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Declares purpose of Critical Incident Review Teams. Defines "critical incident." Directs Department of Human Services to assign team within seven ] 10 days after department becomes aware of critical incident. Modifies membership of team. Directs department to publish certain information regarding teams on department's website. Modifies deadlines by which department shall publish team report. Modifies report requirements. Provides that statements in final report or document created during critical incident review process are inadmissible in civil or administrative proceedings. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Transfers from Department of Human Services to Oregon Community Foundation responsibility for administering Fairview housing trust. Transfers unexpended balance of moneys in Community Housing Trust Account to Oregon Community Foundation for purpose of providing housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities or providing financial assistance to housing or care providers that provide community housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities . Requires Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities to appoint advisory committee to advise and consult with Oregon Community Foundation in making expenditures of moneys transferred to foundation from Community Housing Trust Account. Requires Oregon Community Foundation to annually report to department balance remaining of moneys transferred and uses for expenditures of funds. Requires foundation to repay to department moneys used for unauthorized purpose.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Requires Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority to prescribe by rule criteria for ] to be considered in making fitness determinations ] determination findings of abuse . Provides subject individuals with right to contested case hearing to challenge evaluation of fitness.
Proclaims state policy to provide aids, benefits and services to persons with disabilities who are parents or guardians. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Declares legislative support for survivors of sexual violence. Pledges to work toward creating an Oregon that is safe for all survivors of sexual violence.
Modifies ] Reduces length of time of parental desertion or abandonment of child resulting in forfeiture of parent's intestate share of child's estate and ] or parent's interest in property transferred from child to parent by transfer on death deed in parental forfeiture action to one year if person who would benefit from forfeiture is child or sibling of deceased child or three years for all others . Modifies burden of proof in parental forfeiture action to preponderance of evidence if person who would benefit from forfeiture is child or sibling of deceased child . Extends deadline for commencing parental forfeiture action to no later than one year after decedent's date of death if notice to interested persons not published. Prohibits parent or stepparent who abandoned child from receiving damages for wrongful death of child. Declares emergency, effective on passage.