Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, Oregon State Police, State Department of Agriculture and ] State Department of Fish and Wildlife to prepare report concerning Oregon's current framework for preventing, monitoring and responding to zoonotic disease. Directs agencies ] department to present report to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to public health not later than December 31, 2021 ] 2022 . Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish and periodically update list of wildlife species and other scientifically recognized categories of wildlife ] update list of prohibited species that may not be imported, possessed, sold, purchased, exchanged or transported in this state due to potential for transmission of zoonotic disease that may compromise public health, native wildlife or agricultural interest ] certain risks to public health . Authorizes commission to issue permits to bona fide scientific or educational institutions. Punishes violation by maximum fine of $6,250. ] Authorizes commission to institute civil suit for recovery of damages for violation of rule related to list of prohibited species . Prohibits person from selling, offering for sale or otherwise participating in sale or offer for sale of wildlife that is not native to Oregon and ] is sold alive for purpose of human consumption. Provides that prohibition does not apply to sale, offer for sale or other participation in sale or offer for sale of livestock or shellfish ] food fish . Punishes violation by maximum fine of $6,250. Requires commission, when adopting rules authorizing holding of wildlife, to consider public health risks, including risks of zoonotic disease transmission. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates program through which certain lenders may receive award moneys to fund accounts out of which lenders may reimburse themselves for losses on certain loans to business owners and entrepreneurs who currently lack access to capital. Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to offer award moneys to lenders after competitive RFP process. Requires lenders accepting awards to enter into written agreements with department and specifies certain terms of agreements. Requires annual reports from lenders and department setting forth certain information about loan loss reserve account program experience. Sets forth circumstances in which lender may use for any purpose, or be required to repay, balance of award moneys. Requires interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to economic development to evaluate effectiveness of lender loan loss reserve account program not later than September 15, 2023. Appropriates moneys to department for purposes of lender loan loss reserve account program. Allocates lottery funds to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Oregon Entrepreneurs Network to support economic needs of Oregon small business ecosystem. Requires matching funds from private, nonprofit or philanthropic sources before distributions may be made. Allocates lottery funds to Oregon Growth Fund to support early stage, small and first-time capital sources to help fill capital gaps encountered by Oregon businesses, especially underserved communities, rural areas and undersupported industry sectors. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Governor to facilitate mediation sessions between forest industry and environmental interest representatives. Identifies purposes and completion goal for, and provides for confidentiality of, mediation sessions. Requires joint legislative committee hearing during 2021 regular session regarding mediation process. Allows person to register with State Forestry Department to receive notice of pesticide applications by helicopter to forestland near person's residence or water intake used by person. Requires notice to department of proposed or imminent pesticide application by helicopter to forestland. Requires department to give notice of application to persons registered to receive notice. Requires notice to department upon completion or partial completion of pesticide application. Provides escalating penalties for failures to report. Caps penalties at $5,000 per day. Requires Pesticide Analytical and Response Center to accept requests from certain entities for records and data concerning pesticide application by helicopter to forestland. Imposes fine of $1,000 for pesticide operator failure to timely supply records or data. Prohibits interfering with pesticide application by helicopter to forestland. Makes violation subject to fine of $1,000 for first offense, or $5,000 for repeat offense, within five years. Prohibits pesticide application by helicopter to forestland in proximity to certain locations. Requires that certain rules apply in Siskiyou Georegion. Requires that inventoried points of diversion for water use qualifying for spray buffer be entered in department reporting system. Requires report to Legislative Assembly regarding inventory progress. Appropriates moneys to Office of Governor for biennium ending June 30, 2021, for paying expenses related to mediation sessions. ] Appropriates moneys to State Forestry Department for biennium ending June 30, 2021, for department duties, functions and powers under Act with regard to private forests. ] Increases limitation on expenditures for biennium ending June 30, 2021, by State Forestry Department for carrying out department duties, functions and powers under Act with regard to private forests. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits residential and commercial evictions under specified conditions during emergency period. ] Prohibits during emergency period and grace period residential and commercial evictions for nonpayment during emergency period. Tolls statute of limitations for claims for residential nonpayment during emergency period and grace period. Prohibits residential evictions without cause during emergency period. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders being able to enforce default remedies on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds, land sale contracts or other instruments. Provides for certain exemptions. Requires lenders to defer payments if lender and borrower do not otherwise agree on loan mitigation, deferral or other foreclosure avoidance measure and permits borrower to pay deferred amounts at end of loan term. Provides that lender may adjust escrow impound payment and take into account deficiencies or shortages that result from deferring borrower's payments. Requires borrower to provide notice to lenders if borrower cannot make periodic installment payment. Specifies notice requirements for residential and commercial borrowers. Prohibits lenders from collecting various fees, penalties and charges during emergency period and from undertaking specified practices. Requires courts to dismiss foreclosure proceedings brought during emergency period without prejudice. Permits borrower that suffers ascertainable loss of money or property because lender took prohibited action to bring action for actual damages. Requires lender to provide written notice to borrower of borrower's rights for accommodation under Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage. Requires state to pay for remaining costs of insurance premiums out of moneys appropriated to Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Permits institution to agree through either institution policy or collective bargaining to pay portion of health care benefits paid for by employee. Provides that employees who are eligible to receive health care benefits in manner specified may receive health care benefits from institution only in manner specified. Provides that any savings realized by institution are subject to collective bargaining. Directs board to determine prior to open enrollment period whether it has received sufficient funds to cover required premium payments. Provides that if board has not received sufficient funds, board may require employee share to increase and that institution is not responsible for paying insurance premiums. Requires legacy health benefit coverage to be maintained for part-time faculty at institutions who are not eligible for health care benefits under provisions. Establishes Part-Time Faculty Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to board. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires health insurance policies that have prescription drug benefit to cover cost of drugs prescribed for urgent medical conditions and cost of drugs prescribed and dispensed by pharmacists within their scope of practice, including cost of pharmacists' consultation fees associated with prescribing and dispensing drugs. Prohibits specified entities that reimburse cost of prescription drugs from requiring step therapy or prior authorization for antiretroviral drugs.
Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination. Directs task force to identify and evaluate impacts of age discrimination in workplace and report to interim committees relating to business and labor. Sunsets December 31, 2021. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters and police officers by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers' compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment. Requires that city's denial of claim for compensation for occupational disease must be on basis of clear and convincing medical evidence that condition or impairment of health is unrelated to employment. Establishes that time limitations for filing claim are one year from date claimant first discovered or should have discovered occupational disease, one year from date claimant becomes disabled or is informed by physician that claimant is suffering from occupational disease or one year from date that worker's beneficiary first discovered or reasonably should have discovered that cause of worker's death was occupational disease.
