Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income. Provides exceptions. Requires school districts that make breakfast accessible at a school site to make breakfast accessible at the school site after the beginning of the day. Provides exceptions. Prescribes nutrition standards for reimbursable meals that are paid for by state sources. Directs the Department of Education to apply for statewide participation in federal programs and projects that expand the availability of free or reduced price meals. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education from the General Fund for the purposes of paying any costs owed by parents or guardians for costs previously incurred for a reimbursable meal and assisting school districts in purchasing or upgrading equipment necessary to comply with the expanded provision of free lunches and breakfasts. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Directs a health care facility to establish and maintain procedures that a staff member may use to submit to the health care facility a complaint regarding a medical supply or equipment that the staff member believes in good faith is faulty or dangerous. Requires the health care facility to retain a complaint and associated information for 10 years, inform a person if the health care facility uses, has used or stops using a medical supply or equipment that is subject to a complaint and establish and maintain procedures that a person may use to obtain a copy of a complaint and associated information.
Maddy summaryHB 2967 prohibits Oregon landlords from charging applicants a fee to cover screening costs (like credit checks or reference verification) when applying for rental housing. It requires landlords to refund any such fee within 30 days if they don’t screen an applicant or if the applicant withdraws their application. Landlords must also provide written notice of screening criteria, costs, and applicant rights before collecting any fee. The bill applies directly to residential landlords and rental applicants in Oregon and is currently pending in committee.
] Establishes the [ Oregon ] Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice. Establishes the commission's purpose to serve as a central resource to monitor the use of artificial intelligence technologies and systems in this state and report on long-term policy implications. Directs the commission to provide an annual report to the Legislative Assembly. Allows the commission to make recommendations for legislation, regulations or policies to the Legislative Assembly. Directs the [ State Chief Information Officer ] Attorney General to hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer to assist the commission in carrying out the commission's duties. Allows the Department of Justice to charge a state or local agency or public body for the commission's services.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish a program to award grants to child care resource and referral entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department to award grants to child care resource and referral entities. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Requires employers and employment agencies to include certain wage and benefit information in job postings for job, promotion and transfer opportunities. Requires employers to maintain certain employment records for each employee. Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct proactive outreach and ongoing training to educate employers and employment agencies about the requirements. Makes a violation an unlawful practice and permits the commissioner [ of the Bureau of Labor and Industries ] to assess civil penalties for a violation. [ Establishes circumstances under which the commissioner may dismiss a complaint about a violation. ] Permits the commissioner to issue a letter of explanation or education to an employer or employment agency instead of a civil penalty for a first violation. Requires the remainder of sums collected as penalties, after application toward reimbursement of costs, to be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer or an employment agency to retaliate or discriminate against an employee for invoking or exercising certain rights. Makes employment agencies subject to the prohibition against inquiries regarding salary history and past criminal convictions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules to require the purchase of new zero-emission school buses in certain areas. Requires the purchase of new zero-emission school buses if the price is equal to a comparable school bus that is not zero-emission. Directs the department to provide technical and financial assistance to school bus fleet owners. Establishes the Zero-Emission School Bus Assistance Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories. Prohibits a person from conducting research or testing on nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Establishes the Task Force on Planning the Elimination of Research on Nonhuman Primates. Directs the task force to draft a plan for eliminating the breeding of, and research on, nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Exempts the task force from public meetings law requirements. Sunsets the task force in 2041.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state. Specifies the records that are exempt from disclosure. Specifies the records that are not exempt from disclosure. Requires public university foundations to release an annual report that is publicly available on the website maintained by the public university foundation. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.