Item 3: Ratification of Unanimous IGR Actions and Action on Non-Unanimous IGR Actions

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Comments: This bill revises existing biofuels legislation to clarify what "qualifying feedstock" is. The new definition does not include palm or soybean oil, which is a major feedstock for biodiesel production on the global market. What this new requirement does is protect Oregon and Pacific Northwest biofuel crop producers by mandating the use of their products in biodiesel sold in Oregon. This has a positive economic impact to the communities where these biofuel feedstock producers are, but can have the impact of increasing the public agencies fuel costs. I defer to Tony Jobanek for the final decision on whether to support, oppose or drop this bill. HB 2951 Relating Clause: Relating to police officers. Title: Expands definition of “involved officer” to include officer involved in incident in which use of deadly force caused serious physical injury. Sponsored by: By Representative FREDERICK; Representatives DEMBROW, GELSER, GREENLICK, KOTEK URL: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb2900.dir/hb2951.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Chuck Tilby EPD-ADM 2/8/2011 Pri 1 Oppose Comments: Amending first sections to include "serious physical injury" to the definitions is just fine. The next change increases the number of sessions with a mental health professional that the City will pay for from 2 to 6. Not only would this be a 3x increase in these sessions, but adding "involved officer" could increase these another 2 or more times - monetary impact 9 times the cost to the City. Mandates involved officers attend ALL of the sessions (currently it says "at least one"). Not all involved officers need this amount of work. In most cases, a single session as described works well in that it describes the symptoms of traumatic incidents so that the officers are able to recognize normal reactions that otherwise may be disturbing. To mandate 6 sessions for all involved is way too much - doesn't serve officers well, but serves mental health professionals quite well. The requirement for a 72 hour re-assignment is essentially our existing policy. OK to mandate it because many agencies in the state do not do this. The next session mandates testing for controlled substances and anabolic steroids. Currently, this is an option that is offered to employees, but lacking reasonable grounds to believe an officer is taking such substances, the City cannot mandate the test. Expect a large negative reaction to this paragraph from unions. Typically, the City sees advantage for taking the tests, but current labor rules support the option. Mandating the tests is not advisable and increases the City's costs for paying for such tests. The next section (6) is a major problem with this bill. It takes the investigation out of the hands of a multi-agency investigation team (SB111 - In Lane County it is the Interagency Deadly Force Investigation Team) which has been successfully operating for several years. This bill mandates the Department of Justice conducts the investigation and then is reimbursed by the DA's office. First, DOJ does not have the resources to conduct the investigations we request of them, now, but to add responsibility to investigate all officer-involved shootings would result in inordinate 3