Urges Congress to enact legislation that addresses medical care and disability compensation for veterans exposed to burn pits while serving overseas.
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Authority as public corporation. Prescribes duties of authority. Modifies duties of Willamette Falls Locks Commission. Sunsets commission on June 30, 2021. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires health benefit plans that cover radiation therapy for cancer to cover proton beam therapy on basis no less favorable than other covered benefits. Permits prior authorization or other utilization review.
Authorizes Department of State Lands to perform work to acquire and restore operation of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Requires State Department of Energy to conduct study related to Energy Facility Siting Council and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2021.
Calls on chief executive officers of certain social media companies to ensure fair representation of conservative views.
Requires that collective bargaining agreements with state agency within executive branch be negotiated and entered into in even-numbered year preceding biennium in which agreement takes effect.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child. Punishes by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both, if victim is child under 18 years of age. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, if conviction is based on offer by or to law enforcement officer posing as child under 18 years of age. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify offense as person felony in specified crime category. Excludes certain evidence of past behavior of alleged victim or witness in prosecution for patronizing a trafficked child. Authorizes ex parte order for interception of communications when probable cause for patronizing a trafficked child exists. Adds crime of patronizing a trafficked child to definition of sex crime for purposes of sex offender registration. Adds crime of patronizing a trafficked child to list of crimes constituting racketeering activity. Adds allowing child to patronize a trafficked child to definition of child abuse. Repeals crime of purchasing sex with a minor.
Requires person arrested for sex crime to submit to providing buccal sample. Directs arresting law enforcement agency to obtain required sample and transmit to Department of State Police. Authorizes department to analyze sample and maintain information from sample in criminal identification database. Directs court to include fee in criminal judgment payable to Department of State Police to be expended on testing of buccal samples.
Exempts residential construction contractor meeting criteria from continuing education requirement. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
