The Act would set up a task force to plan for a state body to fund public safety. The Act will take effect only if the Oregon Constitution is amended to create the state body. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.6). Establishes a task force to develop a plan for the Legislative Assembly to establish a statewide public safety funding authority in Oregon in accordance with House Joint Resolution 201 (2024). Takes effect only if House Joint Resolution 201 (2024) is approved by the people at the next regular general election. Takes effect on the effective date of the constitutional amendment proposed by House Joint Resolution 201 (2024).

The Act forbids DHS from denying public aid to COFA citizens because they are not U.S. citizens. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits the Department of Human Services from denying public assistance, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, to COFA citizens based on their immigration status.

The Act would give money to two state agencies to support some types of child care providers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: The Act would give money to a state agency to help develop or improve child care in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).] [Establishes the Home and Small Center Child Care Fund.] [Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to child care facilities that serve a maximum of 75 children for the purpose of establishing or expanding child care infrastructure.] [Appropriates moneys to the department for deposit in the fund to carry out the program.] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for deposit in the Child Care Infrastructure Fund to provide financial assistance to certain child care providers or organizations that support those child care providers. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care to provide technical support to child care providers or organizations that receive financial assistance under the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act allows agencies to award moneys under a grant program related to living with beavers on private land. The Act directs an agency and a committee to report on the grant program. The Act gives moneys to the agency for the grant program. The Act goes into effect on the 91st day after the 2024 session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Authorizes the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to award moneys from the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund under a Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program, on recommendations from the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Advisory Committee. Sunsets the grant program on June 30, 2029. Directs the department and the committee to jointly report on the grant program to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment on or before September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for deposit in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund for purposes related to the grant program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act tells the OHA to adjust its school-based health center grants for inflation. The Act tells the OHA to issue grants and take other actions to increase school-based health services. The Act authorizes lottery bonds for school-based health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation. Directs the authority to issue grants for the planning and operation of school-based health services. Directs the authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services. Directs the authority to study methods for providing or increasing reimbursement for mental health services delivered through school-based health centers. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health center purposes.

Requires a study and a task force to help prepare for a system for student information. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: Directs ODE to create and use a method for electronic student data. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] [Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a standardized method to be used by school districts and the department to electronically create, collect, use, maintain, disclose, transfer and access student data. Prescribes requirements of the method.] [Takes effect July 1, 2024.] Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on the creation of a statewide student information system for use in the public schools of this state for students from kindergarten through grade 12. Requires the director to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2024. Establishes the Task Force on a Statewide Student Information System. Directs the task force to review the study conducted by the director and to make recommendations for the creation of a statewide student information system for use in the public schools of this state for students from kindergarten through grade 12. Requires the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than December 31, 2024. Declares an emergency effective on passage.

The Act creates new drug crimes and increases penalties for some drug offenses. The Act makes other changes to Ballot Measure 110, including changes to treatment funding. The Act also creates a new diversion program and a process for setting aside certain drug convictions. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in public. Punishes by up to 364 days' jail, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press. Punishes by up to five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Increases the penalties for possession of a controlled substance. Punishes by up to 364 days' jail, $6,250 fine, or both. Directs counties to supervise persons convicted of certain property misdemeanors. Requires that for certain drug and property crimes, the court must require an evaluation and treatment as part of probation. Creates a diversion program for certain drug crimes. Directs the court to enter an order setting aside a conviction for certain drug crimes when specified conditions are met. Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services. Transfers the duties of the Oversight and Accountability Council to the commission. Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has a prior conviction. Increases the penalties for the unlawful delivery of a controlled substance that results in the death of a person. Punishes by up to 20 years' imprisonment, $375,000 fine, or both. Provides that possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver constitutes delivery. Authorizes local governments to enact laws prohibiting the use of controlled substances. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act allows for some doctors or people like doctors to be told when a patient overdoses on a drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in certain circumstances when the practitioner's patient has a fatal or nonfatal overdose. Limits the use and retention of practitioner information. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. Sunsets January 1, 2028.

The Act creates campaign giving and spending limits and new disclosure laws on campaign giving and spending. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study money in voting. (Flesch Readability Score 61.3).] [Requires the Secretary of State to study how best to improve the campaign finance system in the State of Oregon. Directs the secretary to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to campaign finance not later than September 15, 2025.] Establishes political campaign contribution limits applicable to candidates, political committees and membership organizations. Authorizes local governments to establish lower limits for local elections. Requires specified persons to report the original sources of funds used to pay for candidate campaign independent expenditures. Creates exceptions where reporting need not occur or, for donations under $5,000, where less information is reported. Directs the Secretary of State to develop a web-based campaign finance dashboard to be used to disclose campaign contributions, independent expenditures and other specified data to enhance transparency and to foster research on campaign finance. Requires the disclosure of specified information on certain political advertising. Requires public office incumbents who intend to seek reelection to file nominating petitions or declarations of candidacy at least seven days prior to the filing deadline applicable to nonincumbents. Modifies penalties to ensure compliance with the new campaign finance and disclosure requirements. Provides that the contribution limits become operative on January 1, 2027, and that the enhanced campaign contribution and independent expenditure reporting requirements become operative on January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act repeals the statutes that allowed a person to be ordered by a court to stay in a facility against their will on the basis of having an IDD. The Act forbids a public body from denying services meant for persons with mental illness on the basis that a person also has an IDD. The Act takes effect when the governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). [Digest: The Act repeals the statutes that allowed a person to be ordered by a court to stay in a facility against their will on the basis of having an IDD.] [The Act forbids a public body from denying services meant for persons with mental illness on the basis that a person also has an IDD.] [The Act takes effect on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3).] Repeals statutes authorizing the involuntary commitment of an individual based on an intellectual disability. Prohibits a public body from denying services related to mental illness on the basis that the individual seeking services also has an intellectual or developmental disability. [Takes effect on July 1, 2025.] Becomes operative on July 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act makes district attorneys, and some forensic science workers who work for OSP, police officers under PERS. The Act lowers the age at which some police and firefighters can retire. The Act makes a new class of employees in PERS for people who work in hazardous positions. The Act allows those people to retire earlier with higher pensions. The Act makes PERS do studies and reports to the Legislative Assembly. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9). Provides that district attorneys, and forensic scientists and evidence technicians employed by the Department of State Police, qualify as police officers under the Public Employees Retirement System. Lowers the normal retirement age for police officers and firefighters under the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan. Establishes a new class of hazardous positions under the Public Employees Retirement System and provides increased retirement benefits to members employed in hazardous positions. Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study the likely liability of participating employers for members in hazardous positions and report to appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2028. Requires the board to report to a committee of the Legislative Assembly during each odd-numbered year regular session on progress toward implementing new benefits for members in hazardous positions.

The Act takes away the demand for certain judge candidates' names to be marked as "incumbent" on a ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Removes the requirement that the word "incumbent" appear on a ballot along with the name of incumbent candidates for specified judgeships.

The Act tells a state agency to study the shortage of MEs in this state. The Act tells the agency to provide the results of the study to the legislature by October 1, 2024. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0). Directs the Department of State Police to study the causes of and ways to address the medical examiner shortage, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than October 1, 2024. Sunsets on January 2, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act allows an adult who applies to a state agency to access a sealed original birth record to ask the state agency to add or change the name of a biological parent. Takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows a person at least 21 years of age who opens a sealed original record of live birth via an application to apply to the Center of Health Statistics to add or change the name of a biological parent on the original record of live birth. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act directs DHS to have a study done by someone else about how reports of child abuse are looked into in this state. The Act directs DHS to have a study done by someone else about children who have shown problem sexual behaviors. The Act requires the people doing the studies to consult with groups for advice. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.6). Directs the Department of Human Services to commission a study, to be conducted by a facilitator who specializes in public policy, in consultation with an advisory committee, on the scope of child abuse investigations in Oregon. Requires that the department's contract with the facilitator must include the preparation and submission of a report to the interim committees on child welfare no later than September 15, 2025. Directs the department to commission a study to be conducted by a facilitator who specializes in public policy, in consultation with an advisory committee, to study the statewide response to children exhibiting problematic sexual behavior. Requires that the department's contract with the facilitator must include the preparation and submission of a report to interim legislative committees no later than September 15, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.