Rep. Brian Clem

Establishes Oregon Hemp Commission. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years. Provides that calendar years 2020 and 2021 may not be considered high benefit cost period for purposes of making determinations of solvency level of fund. Provides that employers' experience ratings used to determine 2020 unemployment insurance tax rates shall be used to determine rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Provides deferral of up to one-third of 2021 unemployment insurance taxes for employers whose tax rates increased by 0.5 percentage points or more from 2020 to 2021. Authorizes forgiveness of percentage of deferrable taxes according to tax rate increase brackets. Reduces fund adequacy percentages used to determine employer tax rate schedules. Broadens kinds of property that may be received for Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040. Requires electric companies to develop clean energy plans and electricity service suppliers to report information for meeting clean energy targets. Directs Department of Environment Quality to determine amount of emissions reduction necessary for each retail electricity provider to meet clean energy targets. Limits cumulative rate impact for compliance to six percent of annual revenue requirements. Permits performance incentive for early compliance. Requires electric company that files clean energy plan to convene Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group with input from stakeholders who represent interests of customers and affected entities and communities. Requires electric company to file biennial report with Public Utility Commission that assesses community benefits and impacts of electric company. Directs State Department of Energy to convene work group to examine opportunities to encourage development of small scale and community-based renewable energy projects and report findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2022. Sunsets December 15, 2022. Permits electric company, if agreed to and in coordination with government, to provide program of rates or charges to serve retail electricity consumers that covers costs of electricity generated from renewable energy resources or nonemitting energy resources or paired with unbundled renewable energy certificates. Defines "government." Requires electricity service suppliers to publicly disclose aggregated energy supply mix and associated emissions of power sources. Establishes contractor labor standards in construction or repowering of large-scale projects. Defines "large-scale project." Prohibits Energy Facility Siting Council from issuing site certificate for new generating facility that produces energy from fossil fuels unless facility generates only nonemitting electricity. Prohibits council from approving amendment of site certificate for generating facility in manner that would increase carbon dioxide emissions from operation of generating facility. Creates grant program within State Department of Energy to provide grants to Indian tribes, public bodies and consumer-owned utilities to plan or develop community renewable energy projects. Establishes Community Renewable Investment Fund within State Treasury for purposes of grant program for community renewable energy projects. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Community Renewable Investment Fund. Increases, from eight percent to 10 percent by 2030, requirement that aggregate electrical capacity of all electric companies be composed of electricity from small-scale renewable energy projects or facilities using biomass. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires, if certain conditions are met, Department of Land Conservation and Development to approve City of Bend's expansion of urban growth boundary to include specified lands and allows department to approve other land use regulations for those lands. Sunsets provisions on January 2, 2030. Exempts dog training facilities from state structural specialty codes. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged. Requires each public university and community college to provide annual report to Higher Education Coordinating Commission detailing compliance with requirement.

Clarifies permissibility of disposition of human bodies by alternative authorized processes including alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction. Clarifies authority of State Mortuary and Cemetery Board to license and regulate alternative disposition facilities. Defines "alternative disposition facility." Extends immunity from liability for reducing remains pursuant to written agreement to alternative disposition facilities. Extends requirement for further instructions as to final disposition of cremated remains to remains reduced by alternative disposition facilities. Extends exemption from execution, appropriation for public purpose and taxation to lands held for purposes of alternative disposition facility. Extends privilege by nonprofit corporations organized for cemetery or crematory purposes to nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes. Permits nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes to provide moneys to irreducible fund with interest and income devoted exclusively to preservation and improvement of grounds, buildings and property. Extends ability of nonprofit corporations organized for cemetery or crematory purposes to sell land unsuitable for corporation's purpose to nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes. Extends interment and cremation recordkeeping requirements to reduction. Extends type of funeral expenses recoverable as victim compensation for compensable crimes to expenses related to reduction. Extends incorporated city's right to acquire, own, maintain and operate cemeteries and crematoria to acquiring, owning, maintaining and operating other authorized facilities for disposition of human remains. Becomes operative July 1, 2022.

Requires parental disclosure when minor receives suicide risk assessment, intervention, treatment or support services. ] Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning. Permits provider to disclose relevant information regarding minor's treatment and diagnosis to organizations providing minor's treatment support. Permits provider to disclose minor's treatment and diagnosis information to individuals and organizations involved in minor's treatment if minor does not object to disclosure. Permits provider to decline to disclose minor's treatment and diagnosis information if disclosure could endanger minor, is not in minor's best interest or would disclose information to individual who abused or neglected minor. Grants civil immunity to providers for making disclosures in good faith without minor's consent.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to ensure ] Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine. Modifies requirements for health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly, no later than March 1, 2023, on impact of required reimbursement of telemedicine health services by health benefit plans on cost of health insurance premiums in Oregon. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires coordinated care organizations to report specified information to ] Oregon Health Authority to compile and annually post to website report on information reported to authority by coordinated care organizations regarding requests for prior authorization. Requires insurers offering health benefit plans to report specified information to Department of Consumer and Business Services regarding requests for prior authorization. Creates new requirements and modifies existing requirements applicable to utilization review by insurers offering health benefit plans and health benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Creates new requirements applicable to step therapy requirements imposed by entities providing health insurance, medical services contracts or health care service contracts, multiple employer welfare arrangements and pharmacy benefit managers.

Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to establish by rule standards and procedures for licensing of private security entities. Defines "private security entity." Requires that rules adopted by department require private security entity to provide private security providers with professional training. Increases limitations on biennial expenditures by department to implement provisions of Act. Conditions licensure upon applicant's successful passing of qualification examination and upon applicant's character, competence and reliability. Establishes requirements for licensed private security entities and for private security entities employing armed private security professionals. Prohibits private security entity from discharging or discriminating against private security provider employed or contracted by entity for making claim or participating in proceeding against entity. Creates personal, joint and several liability for unpaid wages for person who retains unlicensed private security entity. Creates personal liability for all penalty wages for wages due. Permits department to bring action to enjoin person from using or acting as private security entity and to seek damages. Prohibits entity from providing private security services without license, person from providing services as private security entity without first providing license information and person from retaining private security entity without first verifying entity's license. Makes act of providing private security services as private security entity without license Class A violation. Makes act of retaining services of private security entity without first verifying entity's license information Class A violation. Permits Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to impose license sanctions against private security entity that has multiple violations. Becomes operative January 1, 2024. Declares emergency, effective on passage.