Establishes Oregon Paid Family and Medical Leave Board in Department of Consumer and Business Services. Directs board to develop plan to provide family and medical leave insurance benefits to covered individuals. Requires plan to be financed by employee contributions through payroll deductions at rate determined by board. Requires employers to collect and remit to fund contributions by employees of employer regardless of size of employer. Permits employer to apply for board approval of employer-offered plan to satisfy requirement. Requires Director of Department of Business and Consumer Services to establish system for enforcement and appeal of contested cases involving family and medical leave insurance benefit claims. Requires board to establish plan so that employees can begin contributing to plan no later than January 1, 2021. Requires board to adopt rules for plan and to report annually to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to business and workforce. Requires certain state agencies to collaborate to provide outreach, technical assistance or compliance services to board. Establishes Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund as trust fund to be used only for specific purposes. Requires moneys collected as contributions to plan from eligible employees to be deposited in fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department to be used for carrying out duties of board and paying family and medical leave insurance benefits to eligible employees. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to make loans and ] award matching grants to membership organizations and business accelerators in outdoor recreation ] gear and apparel industry. Declares emergency, effective on passage. ].
Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Directs Office of Outdoor Recreation to study and make recommendations on development of Oregon Outdoors Pass. Requires office to submit report to Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2019. ] Establishes voluntary Oregon outdoor recreation search and rescue card program within Office of Emergency Management. Establishes Oregon Search and Rescue Fund to fund program. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to office to reimburse county sheriffs for search and rescue activities and to administer and support county search and rescue grant program. Directs office to adopt program for providing grants by rule, in consultation with State Fish and Wildlife Commission, State Parks and Recreation Department and other affected agencies. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates income tax credit for foster parents. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2026. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Provides tuition and fee remission for natural child of foster parent if natural child attends institution of higher education. Bases remission percentage on aggregate number of years foster parent provided foster home to one or more foster children.
Directs Department of Education to create Oregon Educational Support Professional of Year Program.
Directs Department of Human Services to conduct study that identifies ways to improve foster care system in this state and present report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services on or before September 15, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Extends statute of limitations for certain sex crimes. Authorizes prosecution at any time after commission of crime if defendant identified based on DNA analysis. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits person from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, receiving, transporting, implanting, processing, preserving, storing or accepting donation of human fetal tissue for purpose of transplanting the human fetal tissue into another person or animal under specified circumstances. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Establishes Teen Pregnancy Assistance Fund and requires prosecuting attorney to deposit proceeds of fines for violation of Act into fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Education for sole purpose of providing financial assistance to girls who are enrolled in high school in this state, have had child while enrolled in high school and need financial aid for expenses connected with obtaining high school diploma.