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SB1585 - Relating to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits; prescribing an effective date.
Wlnsvey E. Campos, Courtney Neron, Michael E. Dembrow
Last updated 9 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
The Act requires DHS to set up a task force and come up with a plan for a program that allows people who receive SNAP aid to be able to use the aid to buy hot foods and hot foods that are ready to eat. The Act says who must be on the task force. The Act requires DHS to take steps to carry out the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 87). Requires the Department of Human Services to convene a task force to analyze options available under federal law for a program that allows recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to use the benefits for hot foods, including restaurant meals. Specifies the membership of the task force. Requires the department to implement the program on a statewide basis or as a pilot program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
HJR202 - Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to the authority of the Legislative Assembly to conduct business.
Katherine Pham, David Gomberg, James I. Manning
Last updated 10 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requires a majority of the members of the House and the Senate to be present to take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require a majority of each house of the Legislative Assembly to be present to conduct business. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
STATUS
Failed
SB1532 - Relating to statewide education plans.
Kayse M. Jama, Lew Frederick, Sara Gelser Blouin
Last updated 9 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Directs ODE to make a plan for the education of students who are immigrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide education plan for students who are asylum seekers, refugees or any other immigrant.
STATUS
Passed
SB1580 - Relating to fraudulent misrepresentation by employers to reduce workers' compensation premiums; declaring an emergency.
Kathleen Taylor, Paul R. Holvey, Thomas Andersen
Last updated 9 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
HB4135 - Relating to threatening a mass injury event; prescribing an effective date.
Courtney Neron, Mark W. Meek, Kevin L. Mannix
Last updated 10 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
The Act creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event and directs the CJC to report certain data to the legislature about the new crime. The Act prohibits the possession of a gun by a person convicted of the new crime. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, upon the first offense, and five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, upon second and subsequent offenses. Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Provides that threatening a mass injury event constituting a misdemeanor is treated as a felony for purposes of supervision duties and funding. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to report to the legislative assembly concerning specified data related to threatening a mass injury event charges. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB1570 - Relating to state financial administration; declaring an emergency.
Deb Patterson, Thomas Andersen, Edwin L. Diehl
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
The Act gives money to the YMCA to be used for a social services resource center. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for distribution to the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties for a social services resource center. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4148 - Relating to natural resources; declaring an emergency.
Ken Helm, Michael E. Dembrow, Chris Gorsek
Last updated 10 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
The Act directs an agency to expand programs related to wildlife illness. The Act directs an agency to perform a review. The Act directs an agency to establish a program for living with wildlife. The Act makes changes related to wildlife paths and roads. The Act gives moneys for related purposes. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to expand programs related to wildlife disease. Directs the Invasive Species Council to undertake a review of council programs and activities. Directs the department to establish a wildlife coexistence program. Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund for implementing the expansion, review, new program and changes to wildlife programs. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4130 - Relating to the practice of health care; prescribing an effective date.
Benjamin W. Bowman, Maxine E. Dexter, Wlnsvey E. Campos
Last updated 10 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Stops people in charge of companies that do medical work from running both the company and other business that does work that is not medical work. Stops the people in charge from hiring, firing or telling medical workers when and how to do their jobs. Stops companies from giving control of the company to other businesses that do work that is not medical work. Lets the Secretary of State punish bad actors. Stops companies that give medical care from telling their workers that they cannot work for someone else, say that the company is bad or speak out about the company's bad acts. Stops companies from punishing those who speak out. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits a shareholder, director or officer of a domestic or foreign professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee or contractor of or otherwise participating in managing both the professional corporation and a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract. Prohibits shareholders, directors or officers from participating in hiring, terminating or specifying the terms of employment for medical professionals that the professional corporation employs or with which the professional corporation has a contract for services while owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director of or being an employee or contractor of a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract. Specifies exceptions. Prohibits a professional corporation from relinquishing or transferring control over the professional corporation's assets, business operations, clinical practices or decisions or the clinical practices or decisions of medical professionals the professional corporation employs or with which the professional corporation has a contract. Specifies examples of prohibited methods of transferring control and exceptions to the prohibition. Provides that requirements that apply to domestic and foreign professional corporations organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, also apply to domestic and foreign limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships organized for a medical purpose. Provides the Secretary of State with authority to enforce violations of the requirements by administratively dissolving or revoking or inactivating the registration of entities that engage in violations. Voids noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements and nondisparagement agreements between certain business entities and medical professionals, with specified exceptions, and prohibits the business entities from retaliating against the medical professional for violating the void agreements. Punishes retaliations as an unlawful employment practice. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB1581 - Relating to the reporting of the status of a regional energy market.
Kathleen Taylor, David Brock Smith, Courtney Neron
Last updated 9 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
HB4080 - Relating to offshore wind energy development; declaring an emergency.
Dacia Grayber, David Gomberg, Thomas Andersen
Last updated 9 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
States a state policy on offshore wind energy. Tells the state agency on energy to make a road map on standards for offshore wind energy. Makes a person involved in an offshore wind energy or port project meet certain labor and supply chain standards. Tells the state agency on land use to assess state policies that may be used in federal reviews of offshore wind leasing decisions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Declares a state policy to support engagement between offshore wind developers and impacted organizations, communities and tribes. Declares a state policy regarding offshore wind energy development and labor and supply chain standards. Declares a state policy that the interconnection of offshore energy projects be carried out in a manner that promotes electric grid reliability and resilience. Directs the Land Conservation and Development Commission to exercise its rulemaking authority to support these state policies. Directs the State Department of Energy to develop an Offshore Wind Roadmap that defines standards to be considered in the processes related to offshore wind energy development and approval. Requires a developer or contractor involved in an offshore wind energy project, port development project that is necessary for the development of an offshore wind energy project or project related to manufacturing or supply chain that is located on port property and that facilitates the construction, operation or maintenance of an offshore wind energy project to meet certain labor and supply chain standards. Allows a developer or contractor to use a workforce development agreement to comply with the requirements. Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to conduct an assessment of the state enforceable policies that may be used in the federal consistency review of offshore wind leasing decisions and related actions. Directs the department to submit a report on the department's activities to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to marine renewable energy and coastal resources not later than September 1, 2025. Modifies certain biennial appropriation made from the General Fund to the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Modifies limitation on expenditures for certain biennial expenses for the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
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