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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1578

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
Report Pass
3/5/24  
Engrossed
3/7/24  
Refer
3/7/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Enrolled
3/7/24  
Passed
4/17/24  
Chaptered
4/18/24  
The Act directs the OHA to set up a health care interpreter management system. The Act requires the OHA to contract with a nonprofit entity to establish a recruitment and retention program. The Act sets out certain requirements for the nonprofit. The Act requires the nonprofit to submit a report to the OHA each year. The Act requires the OHA to seek out all means to get federal matching funds to pay costs of health care interpreter services. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and maintain an online portal with the functionality to provide online scheduling for health care providers and coordinated care organizations to use to contact health care interpreters directly for purposes of serving Oregon Health Plan members and to process billing for health care interpreter services that were rendered to Oregon Health Plan members. Requires the authority to contract with a nonprofit entity to develop and administer a health care interpreter recruitment and retention program. Provides criteria and reporting requirements that the contracting nonprofit must meet. Requires the authority to seek any federal funding available for costs of reimbursing health care interpreters for health care interpretation services provided to [medical assistance recipients] Oregon Health Plan members no later than January 1, 2025. Modifies certain biennial appropriations made from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority. Establishes and modifies limitations on expenditures for certain biennial expenses for the Oregon Health Authority. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1579

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Engrossed
3/7/24  
Refer
3/7/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Enrolled
3/7/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1580

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/14/24  
Engrossed
2/19/24  
Refer
2/21/24  
Report Pass
3/1/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1581

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/16/24  
Engrossed
2/22/24  
Refer
2/22/24  
Report Pass
3/1/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1582

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
The Act funds cultural groups in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1583

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/19/24  
Report Pass
2/26/24  
Report Pass
2/26/24  
Engrossed
2/28/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
This Act does not allow a board or a person to choose or not choose materials that are used in a school when the choice is discrimination. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, program materials or library books that are used in the public schools of this state. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1584

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1585

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Report Pass
2/29/24  
Engrossed
3/4/24  
Refer
3/4/24  
Report Pass
3/5/24  
Enrolled
3/6/24  
Passed
4/4/24  
Chaptered
4/11/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1586

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
The Act changes the state law that prohibits housing discrimination. The Act removes an exemption from the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Removes from state law an exception that allowed for residential property owners to engage in housing discrimination based on certain protected characteristics in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1587

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/20/24  
Engrossed
2/22/24  
Refer
2/22/24  
Report Pass
3/1/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
The Act protects a children's advocacy center from legal action for looking into the abuse of a child if a nationwide group says that the center meets certain standards. The Act protects the center's employees, too. The Act does not protect a center from legal action based on its employees' adverse treatment of a person on the basis of a protected class. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Grants certain immunities to children's advocacy centers and to employees and designated agents of children's advocacy centers. Requires applicants for funds to establish and maintain a children's advocacy center to include evidence of the center's accreditation with a nationally recognized organization. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1588

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
The Act increases penalties for some drug offenses. The Act also makes other changes to Ballot Measure 110. The Act directs grant funds to counties for drug treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Increases penalties for possession of a controlled substance. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both, or 30 days' imprisonment, a $1,250 fine, or both, depending upon the scheduling of the controlled substance. When a person possesses a certain quantity of a controlled substance, or has certain prior convictions, punishes by five years' imprisonment, a $125,000 fine, or both, or 10 years' imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, or both, depending upon the scheduling of the controlled substance. Provides that possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver constitutes delivery. Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to provide grants and funding to counties for drug treatment programs. Transfers the duties of the Oversight and Accountability Council to the commission. Appropriates moneys to the commission to fund the grants.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1589

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Makes voting in person the normal method for voting. Requires voters to show picture ID when voting or requesting a ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election. Allows an elector to request a ballot that may be voted by mail if the elector is unable to vote in person on the date of the election. Retains vote by mail as the primary method for conducting elections for military and overseas electors and for electors who have a mailing address outside of Oregon. Requires electors to present valid government-issued identification when appearing in-person to vote or when requesting a ballot be sent by mail. Requires all ballots to be returned by the date of an election. Removes a requirement that the state pay postage for ballots returned by mail.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1590

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
The Act repeals laws related to boats and towed sports. The Act changes laws about boating safety education. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Repeals provisions related to the towed watersports program. Provides that the minimum standard for boating safety education must include instruction relating to towed watersports safety education. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1591

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
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.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1592

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Gives money to a state agency to give to some colleges to help train more mental health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain institutions of higher education to expand the behavioral health workforce in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

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