Prohibits court from appointing deputy public guardian and conservator as fiduciary and requires court to appoint Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator as fiduciary. Facilitates disclosure of information for needs assessment to determine eligibility for public guardian and conservator services. Authorizes Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to require fingerprints of employee, applicant for employment, volunteer or party under contract for purpose of requesting state or nationwide criminal records check. Establishes Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator Fund. Establishes Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator Protected Person Trust Account for benefit of persons on whose behalf moneys have been received and for whom Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator has been appointed as guardian or conservator. Directs Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to administer trust account.
Approves modifications to rules of Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
Authorizes financial institution to refuse certain financial transactions when financial institution reasonably believes financial exploitation of vulnerable person may have occurred, may have been attempted or is being attempted. Requires financial institution to provide notice of action or refusal to act to parties authorized to transact business on account of vulnerable person. Provides that authority of financial institution is in addition to and not in lieu of right of financial institution under deposit or other contract with customer. Becomes operative October 1, 2017. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Makes technical changes in Oregon tax statutes. Adjusts grammar and syntax. Repeals and deletes obsolete statutes and provisions. Conforms language and structure to existing statutes.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by office. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Reverses amendments to statute made by Enrolled Senate Bill 1534 (2016) that were determined by United States Secretary of Labor to be out of conformity with federal law.
Authorizes Employment Department to disclose information in department records to public universities and Oregon Health and Science University to extent necessary to carry out planning, performance measurement, program analysis, socioeconomic analysis or policy analysis functions. Authorizes department to disclose to any person establishment level information secured from public universities and Oregon Health and Science University. Updates citation to controlling federal law. Updates definitions for purposes of specifying certain administrative duties of Director of Employment Department with respect to workforce information. Repeals Occupational Program Planning System. Deletes provision related to discontinued Shared Information System.
Provides that court has discretion over selection of alternate jurors and when alternate jurors are informed of alternate status. Authorizes court , with prior agreement of parties, to replace discharged juror with alternate juror in either guilt or sentencing phase of criminal case after jury begins deliberations.
Directs Oregon Housing Stability Council, with advice of Community Action Partnership of Oregon, to develop policy for awarding grants to organizations that shall use funds in Emergency Housing Account to align with federal strategies and resources available to prevent and end homelessness.
Requires each post-secondary educational institution that provides housing for students to provide to each student enrolling or registering at institution for first time information on vaccine-preventable diseases known to occur in individuals between 16 and 21 years of age.
Authorizes person specified in family law judgment as court-ordered beneficiary to recover against third-party beneficiary named by obligor in separate civil action. Provides that entry of family law judgment serves as constructive notice of court-ordered beneficiary's entitlement to life insurance proceeds to any named third-party beneficiary .
Provides that Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries may apply certain considerations to determine whether to divide public works project into separate contracts. Requires all contracts for public works and all subcontracts related to public works contract to specify that contractor or subcontractor must have filed public works bond with Construction Contractors Board unless contractor or subcontractor is exempt from requirement. Specifies that disadvantaged business enterprise, minority-owned business, woman-owned business, business that service-disabled veteran owns or emerging small business must file public works bond if commissioner finds that enterprise or business violated prevailing rate of wage law or rules commissioner adopts under prevailing wage law. Specifies circumstances in which contractor or subcontractor violates provision against any other person paying all or portion of prevailing rate of wage or fringe benefits. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
