Oregon SATF / Alliance to End Violence Against Women Priority Bills

SB 5506 - Funding for community DVSA programs - passed!

• Survivor Housing Funds ($6 million) and ODSVS ($10 million): one time allocations to keep funding at current levels;

• $1 million in EHA funds to help shelters provide services for animals, and more.

SB 611B - Caps annual rent increases to ensure continued access to safe housing - passed!

HB 3456 – Campus Omnibus DVSA Bill - passed!

• Establishes The Sexual Misconduct Survey Council in conjunction with the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and legislature to design and assist schools with the implementation of required campus climate surveys.

• Each institution of higher education shall employ at least one certified advocate as part of an institution-based qualified victim services program.

• Each institution of higher education shall enter into and maintain a memorandum of understanding with a community-based domestic and sexual violence advocacy agency that is in the same county as the institution.

• Ensure that a student or employee of the institution can access free and confidential counseling and advocacy services either on campus or off campus.

• Requires amnesty policies for survivors and witnesses related to substance use.

• Each school must utilize a multi-disciplinary team to inform a trauma-informed, gender-inclusive sexual misconduct primary prevention and awareness training that must be attended annually by each student and employee of the institution annually.

• Each institution of higher education shall waive any requirements relating to a minimum required grade point average or disciplinary record requirements required to demonstrate academic success that are part of an institution-sponsored program or activity.

• Requires annual report from each institution to the state detailing progress on the above items and aggregate data from the sexual misconduct survey.

HB 2676 – Crime Victim Compensation improvement bill - passed!

• Cleaning expenses can now be included in crime victim compensation

• “Injury” now includes “mental or emotional harm”

• Police officer commissioned by a university under ORS 352.121 or 353.125 now included in definition of “law enforcement”

• “Survivor” now includes a person to whom a deceased victim was engaged to be married when the compensable crime occurred.

• Ability to review case-specific details for why notification may not have occurred to law enforcement

• Prevention/safety orders

• Expanding medical care and provider definitions

• Including costs of “SKITS” (Strangulation kits) in reimbursable expenditures

• Counseling services cap raised from $500 to $5000, expanded definition of who is eligible to receive reimbursement for counseling services (including the first person to discover the corpse of the victim; or was a witness to the crime resulting in the death of a victim).

• including the cost of any prescription medications prescribed in conjunction with the counseling (up to $20,000 for abuse, $10,000 for DV)

• For a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim, lost wages due to providing care for the victim, within the terms and up to a maximum amount determined by the department by rule are now included in the covered costs.

• and more!

SB 867 Forfeiture by Wrongdoing (Judiciary) - passed!

• Provides that witness is unavailable for purposes of hearsay rules if witness is absent from hearing and proponent of statement has established that party against whom statement is offered engaged in certain conduct that caused witness to be unavailable.

HB 3114 Hotel/Motel ID Requirements - did not pass

• Would prohibit hotelkeeper or innkeeper from requiring qualified victim services program that facilitates reservation or rental of guest room in hotel or inn to disclose personal information of victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

HB 2719 A HIV Compliance “Fix” - passed!

• Fixes language in existing law to ensure that Oregon domestic violence and sexual assault agencies align with federal law and continue to be eligible for grant funding from federal and state agencies.

• Directs district attorney to petition court for order requiring defendant charged with certain crimes to submit to testing for HIV and other communicable diseases.

Select other bills supported by Oregon SATF this session include:

HB 2002: Reproductive Healthcare Access + Justice: passed (with modifications)!

HB 2280: Modifies requirements of consent for purposes of school district sexual harassment policies. - passed!

HB 2732: Modifies allocation formula for grants to children's advocacy centers. passed!

SB 604: Requires Department of Education to provide grants to school districts to carry out school district's child sexual abuse prevention instructional program. - did not pass

SB 816: Extends FAPA protective orders to two years - passed!

SB 575: Creates Student Success Plan for Students with Disabilities - did not pass

2022: SATF had two policy priorities during the 2022 legislative session, including:

• SB1574 - Oregon's Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) Kit fix (passed!)

• SB1572 - Campus Sexual Assault Prevention & Support bill (no pass)

2021: SATF had one policy priority and two supported policies during the 2021 legislative session, including:

• SB766 - Sexual Abuse Protective Order (passed! Effective Sept. 25, 2021). SB766 makes several changes to the sexual abuse restraining order process, to improve victim safety. The bill fixes a problem with prior legislation which unintentionally allowed disclosure of a petitioners’ otherwise confidential birthdate information. The bill ensures safety for petitioners seeking renewals of orders entered when they were a minor, by protecting disclosure of birthdate information. The bill also makes procedural changes to the alternative methods of service allowed in certain circumstances.

• POP 107 Sexual Offense Treatment Services (passed! Signed by the Governor, July 1, 2021 ): This package provides funding and position authority for three Sex Offense Treatment Board (SOTB)-certified sex offense treatment coordinators for OYA's close custody facilities. The positions will provide ongoing supervision of the qualified mental health professionals (QMHPs) currently providing sex offense treatment in OYA facilities, and will provide sex offense treatment at those facilities without a board-certified treatment provider. This package also funds the training and SOTB Associate certification of seven eligible agency QMHPs, and funds a 5% differential to eligible SOTB-certified QMHPs.

• American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Prevention Funding : Status: Success! Funding will be administered through DAS . $800,000 Prevention Education Programs, as a result of Senator Wagner’s ARPA fund allocation, to go thru the Department of Administrative Services to OCADSV and SATF. Establishing specific funding for prevention education has been a goal for advocates for decades. We have never come close to achieving this goal until this session. This is a truly remarkable and thrilling accomplishment!

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