SB1533 - Relating to elections.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Kayse M. Jama, James I. Manning, Lew Frederick
Last updated 9 months ago23 Co-Sponsors
Tells the SOS to translate the voters' pamphlet into the 10 most common languages used in each county. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Increases, from 5 to 10, the number of the most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, that the Secretary of State must include on a publicly available list and into which the secretary must translate voters' pamphlets. Increases the number of translator members on the Translation Advisory Council. Increases, from 100 or more individuals to 300 or more individuals, the number of people in a county who must speak one of 10 listed languages in order to require a county voters' pamphlet to be translated into that language.
STATUS
Passed
SB1565 - Relating to developmental disability services; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Cedric Ross Hayden, Tim Knopp, Daniel Bonham
Last updated 10 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
The Act requires the DHS to pay parents to provide in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). [Digest: The Act requires the DHS to pay for a certain number of hours of in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).] Requires the Department of Human Services to pay [for] parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health needs or very high medical needs. [Requires the department, for children in each category, to pay for no less hours of attendant care services for a child than for the average attendant care hours utilized by the children in the same category and to supplement underutilized hours by paying the child's parent to provide the services.] Directs the department to seek any federal funding available for attendant care services no later than [April 1, 2024] January 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1546 - Relating to information technology; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative Measures
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Makes the State Chief Information Officer contract with a third party for a study of how the state uses information and technology and advise on how to improve. Tells the officer to submit a report by a certain date. The Act takes effect on its passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.5). Requires the State Chief Information Officer to contract for an independent assessment of the information technology environment within the executive department, to include recommendations for improving performance, operations and resources. Directs the officer to submit a report on the results of the assessment and recommendations to the Governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology and any other appropriate legislative committee no later than February 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1517 - Relating to the urban flood safety and water quality district; prescribing an effective date.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative Measures
Last updated 9 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
The Act would let the urban flood safety and water quality district impose an annual charge on lands that are benefited by district works. The Act would let the district impose a fee on cities and counties for district costs not covered by the annual charge. The Act would change how the district winds up other water-related districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Authorizes the urban flood safety and water quality district to annually assess benefited lands within the managed floodplain for the total amount of revenues required to pay the costs for the succeeding year of district works that directly benefit the lands. Authorizes the district to impose a fee on cities and counties for the overall fixed costs of operating the district and district works. Amends provisions relating to the governance and the dissolution of existing drainage districts and corporations for the use and control of water lying within the boundaries of the urban flood safety and water quality district. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
SB1507 - Relating to challenges faced by hospitals in discharging patients with complex needs to post-acute care settings; prescribing an effective date.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative Measures
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
The Act gives money to the OPGC to help patients with complex needs who are being discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). [Digest: The Act directs the OHA to take steps to take care of hospitals' problems in finding places to send certain patients who are ready to leave the hospital. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to take steps to address challenges faced by hospitals in discharging] Appropriates moneys to the Long Term Care Ombudsman out of the General Fund for distribution to the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to provide services to patients with complex needs who are being discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB1563 - Relating to U.S. Highway 101; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Richard S. Anderson
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
The Act requires ODOT to study a section of U.S. Highway 101. ODOT must make a report of the study and share its findings with the JCT. ODOT may start work on the study as soon as the Act is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.5). Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a review of a specific portion of U.S. Highway 101 and present a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2024. Sunsets January 2, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1554 - Relating to behavioral health.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Katherine B. Lieber
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
The Act requires the OHA to study the problems in getting mental health care and substance use care in this state. The Act requires the OHA to send a report on its findings to the legislature. The section is repealed on January 2, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 65). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study access to behavioral health treatment in this state. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2025. Sunsets January 2, 2026.
STATUS
Failed
SJR202 - Proposing amendment to Oregon Constitution relating to a property tax relief program for owner-occupied primary residences of certain seniors.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Daniel Bonham
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
The resolution would freeze the taxes levied on the homes of seniors. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution directing the Legislative Assembly to enact a property tax relief program for owner-occupied primary residences of certain seniors. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
STATUS
Failed
SB1584 - Relating to temporary total disability benefits.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Dennis B. Linthicum, Lona Kim Thatcher, Bill Hansell
Last updated 10 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
The Act removes two bases for a worker to refuse a job without losing workers' comp benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employment without losing temporary total disability benefits.
STATUS
Failed
SB1579 - Relating to child abuse; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Tim Knopp, David Brock Smith, Jeff Helfrich
Last updated 9 months ago50 Co-Sponsors
The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). [Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. The Act creates a task force to audit how this state has complied with Karly's Law and to study other matters related to services provided to victims of child abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3).] Establishes the Children's Advocacy Center Fund. Provides that the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate sufficient moneys to the fund that are necessary to fully fund the existing grant program to establish, maintain and support children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers, and to support county child abuse multidisciplinary teams. [Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the existing grant program.] Directs the Department of Justice to develop and administer a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports provided by children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the grant program. [Establishes the Task Force on County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams to audit Oregon's compliance with Karly's Law, to study and provide proposals for optimal funding rates for children's advocacy centers and to identify barriers to access to child abuse multidisciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services on or before December 3, 2024. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for purposes of the task force.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
SB1573 - Relating to wages.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Floyd F. Prozanski, Paul R. Holvey, Wlnsvey E. Campos
Last updated 10 months ago19 Co-Sponsors
The Act affects the duty of some contractors with respect to some workers' unpaid wages. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Makes contractor jointly and severally liable in civil or administrative action for unpaid wages of unrepresented employee of subcontractor at any tier. Provides statute of limitations for actions regarding recovery for unpaid and overtime wages. Requires subcontractor to provide certain payroll records and other information to contractor upon request. Permits contractor to withhold payment to subcontractor under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Failed
SB1502 - Relating to public meetings of educational institution boards.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Rob Wagner, Ricardo Ruiz, Emily G. McIntire
Last updated 9 months ago11 Co-Sponsors
Requires most public schools and college boards to video record their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private or if a school district is very small. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). [Digest: Requires public schools and college boards to live stream their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private. Allows remote testimony for most school and college board meetings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] [Requires the governing bodies of school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to live stream governing body meetings, if technically practicable, and to post the recordings of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites. Excepts executive sessions. Requires educational institution governing bodies to also permit witnesses to testify via telephonic, electronic or virtual means if meetings also permit in-person oral testimony.] Requires school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to make video recordings of governing body meetings or, if the public body's facilities lack broadband Internet access, to make audio recordings, and to post the video or audio recordings, as applicable, of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites. Excepts executive sessions and does not apply to school districts with less than 50 students.
STATUS
Passed
SB1551 - Relating to the Oregon Promise program; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative Measures
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
The Act allows certain people to get or keep a grant for college. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). [Digest: The Act allows certain people to get a grant for college. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).] Waives the requirement that an otherwise eligible Oregon Promise grant recipient must have completed high school within six months of enrolling in certain community college courses for those individuals who completed high school or its equivalent [in 2020 or 2021] during a specified period. Provides a similar waiver of continued eligibility requirements for existing grant recipients. Applies the waiver to grants awarded in the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1591 - Relating to adult foster homes; prescribing an effective date.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Mark W. Meek, Robert A. Nosse, Travis Nelson
Last updated 10 months ago19 Co-Sponsors
The Act allows DHS to license adult foster homes with up to seven residents. The Act sets out the requirements for licensing an adult foster home with six or seven residents. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes the Department of Human Services to license adult foster homes serving up to seven residents if the home meets specified criteria and pays the appropriate fee. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB5702 - Relating to state financial administration; declaring an emergency.
Oregon - 2024 Legislative MeasuresIntroduced by
Ways and Means
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
The Act approves certain fees charged by state agencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Approves certain new or increased fees adopted by state agencies. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
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