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SB1581 - Relating to the reporting of the status of a regional energy market.
Kathleen Taylor, David Brock Smith, Courtney Neron
Last updated 6 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes an electric company report each year on the steps taken or being taken to be part of an energy market. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires an investor-owned utility that sells more than two million megawatt hours of electricity in a calendar year to report to and inform the Legislative Assembly [the activities, if any,] of activities that the investor-owned utility has taken or is taking toward participating in a regional energy market. Sunsets January 2, 2031.
STATUS
Passed
SB1560 - Relating to early medical release from custody; declaring an emergency.
Michael E. Dembrow, Floyd F. Prozanski, James I. Manning
Last updated 7 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
The Act creates the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release. The Act directs the task force to submit a report to the legislature by December 31, 2024. The Act takes effect when it is signed by the Governor. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). [Digest: The Act creates a process by which adults in custody can apply for early medical release from custody. The Act creates a new committee under the parole board that reviews applications and decides when to recommend release. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).] [Establishes the Medical Release Advisory Committee within the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. Specifies the qualifications of members of the committee. Establishes procedures by which adults in custody may apply for early medical release from custody and standards by which the committee recommends release. Establishes a cap on the number of applications per month that the committee may consider until January 1, 2027. Provides for appointment of an attorney upon a release recommendation from the committee.] [Directs the board to accept a release recommendation from the committee unless the applicant poses a danger to another person or the public that outweighs compassionate reasons for release. Directs the board to refer an applicant to the sentencing court for sentences requiring court authorization for early medical release.] [Establishes procedures for the sentencing court to consider a motion authorizing early medical release and enter a supplemental judgment.] [Directs the Department of Corrections to inform adults in custody concerning the early medical release process and ensure that application forms are available to all adults in custody. Authorizes the department to directly refer adults in custody to the committee for early medical release. Directs the department to refer to the committee certain adults in custody with terminal illness. Specifies the release process when early medical release is ordered or authorized.] [Directs the committee to annually report data concerning early medical release to the committees of Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary.] [Prohibits a prosecuting attorney from conditioning a plea offer on a waiver of early medical release eligibility.] [Increases the maximum number of board members from five to six.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Establishes the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release. Directs the task force to submit a report with findings and recommendations for legislation to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary by December 31, 2024. Sunsets on January 2, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4137 - Relating to high school diploma requirements.
Lisa Reynolds, Thomas Andersen, Maxine E. Dexter
Last updated 6 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Allows a student who has finished an IB program to not have to meet some requirements for a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
STATUS
Passed
HB4071 - Relating to health care licensing; prescribing an effective date.
Edwin L. Diehl, Hai T. Pham, Daniel Bonham
Last updated 7 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes a task force to look at health professional regulatory boards. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: Tells health care boards to give short-term permission to work. Starts January 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] [Requires health professional regulatory boards to issue a temporary authorization to practice a health profession to eligible applicants within 10 days of receiving an application for licensure. Defines "health profession" and "health professional regulatory board."] Establishes the Task Force on Health Professional Licensing Modernization. Directs the task force to submit three reports to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health, on or before September 15, 2024, September 15, 2025, and December 15, 2025. Sunsets on December 31, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB1591 - Relating to adult foster homes; prescribing an effective date.
Mark W. Meek, Robert A. Nosse, Travis Nelson
Last updated 7 months ago
19 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
HB4151 - Relating to youth behavioral health; declaring an emergency.
Tawna Sanchez, Lisa Reynolds, Thomas Andersen
Last updated 6 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes a small group to look at the youth behavioral workforce. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce. Requires the subcommittee to submit an initial report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to behavioral health not later than September 15, 2024, and a final report to the Legislative Assembly not later than December 15, 2025. Sunsets December 31, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
SB1571 - Relating to the use of artificial intelligence in campaign communications; declaring an emergency.
Aaron Woods, James I. Manning, Sara Gelser Blouin
Last updated 6 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
The Act would require a disclosure of the use of AI or other similar technology in campaign ads. The Act would create a way to enforce the requirement and to impose a fine for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a disclosure of the use of synthetic media in campaign communications. Provides for the enforcement of the requirement. Subjects a violation of the requirement to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000. Exempts certain entities and content from the requirement. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
SB1533 - Relating to elections.
Kayse M. Jama, James I. Manning, Lew Frederick
Last updated 6 months ago
23 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
HB4100 - Relating to liability.
Paul R. Holvey, Michael E. Dembrow, Mark F. Gamba
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Bans the recoupment of certain costs if the costs are from the fault of a utility. Makes an electric company make a report on any fire event that is caused by a power line. Allows the report to be used as evidence. Specifies the economic damages allowed for property damage caused by a wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that a public utility incurs as a result of negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the public utility. Requires an investor-owned electric utility to provide an incident report to the Department of the State Fire Marshal and the State Forestry Department whenever a fire-related incident occurs that is caused by the utility's electric power line and to provide a copy of the incident report to the Public Utility Commission. Provides that the incident report may be used as evidence. Specifies the recoverable economic damages allowed for damage or injury to property caused by a wildfire. Allows the use of other objectively verifiable information to determine fair market value.
STATUS
Failed
SB1580 - Relating to fraudulent misrepresentation by employers to reduce workers' compensation premiums; declaring an emergency.
Kathleen Taylor, Paul R. Holvey, Thomas Andersen
Last updated 6 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
The Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). [Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).] [Creates the crime of fraudulent misrepresentation by an employer to an insurer of certain employee-related data with the intent to decrease the employer's workers' compensation insurance premium. Punishes by a maximum fine of $125,000 plus specified forms of restitution.] Provides that an employer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the employer knowingly submits a false payroll report with the intent to decrease the employer's premium for workers' compensation insurance. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Oregon district SD-023
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Michael E. Dembrow was elected to the Oregon House in 2008. He previously served as an adjunct English instructor at Portland Community College. Dembrow earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester and a master's degree from the University of Michigan. Dembrow served as chief petitioner for a ballot initiative petition regarding hospital spending that garnered over 110,000 signatures statewide. The proposal later became the basis for legislation directing Oregon hospitals to devote a specific amount of their revenues to care for low-income Oregonians.read less
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