Oregon lawmakers are preparing to return to Salem on Wednesday for a special session focused on passing police accountability laws and measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis.

Leaders in the Democratically controlled Legislature released publicly a list of 13 proposed bills late Friday night that they want to pass this week. Sen. Michael Dembrow made public six additional proposed bills, and a few more were expected by Monday. Gov. Kate Brown announced June 16 she would call lawmakers into special session.

The public can watch hearings on the proposed bills online at 3:30 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday on the Legislature’s website. There are also instructions on the website for how to submit testimony on the proposals.

Speaking of public access to government meetings, it’s among the topics addressed in a broad coronavirus policy bill. The governor in April ordered governments to allow people to listen to or watch public meetings in real time. The proposed bill appears to allow governments to record the meetings, without a deadline to make the recordings public.

Here are the proposals lawmakers will discuss at public hearings Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. The last six were widely distributed by Dembrow on Friday evening.

Policing

Making it harder

• for arbitrators to overturn law enforcement discipline.

Require

• law enforcement officers to intervene and report when colleagues use unreasonable force.

Prohibit

• law enforcement agencies from using tear gas, long range acoustic devices or sound cannons.

Ban

• law enforcement from using holds that inhibit a person’s ability to breathe, including but not limited to chokeholds.

Put

• the Oregon attorney general in charge of investigating cases of deadly use of force, and force that causes serious injuries, by law enforcement.

Create

• a statewide database of law enforcement officer discipline and publish the information online.

Coronavirus

A bundle

• of coronavirus-related policies, from limiting the liability of governments and temporary lodging businesses that provide “isolation shelter” to people during the coronavirus public health emergency, to inserting a moratorium on evictions into state law and loosening restrictions on RV camping.

Prohibit

• commercial evictions during the coronavirus state of emergency.

Extend judicial timelines

• during the pandemic.
• Create a

state inspection program for meat-processing plants.

Business

Tweaks, largely technical

• in nature, to the state’s new business tax passed in 2019 to fund education.

Require

• the Eastern Oregon Economic Development Board to make grants and loans to help workforce development.

Schools

Extend

• by one year small school grants and state funding for foreign exchange students.

Increase

• , for one year, the percentage of students in a school district who can enroll in a virtual charter school not connected with the district.

Other measures

Put into law a compromise

• reached by timber companies and environmentalists regarding pesticide use.

Modify rules for distribution and spending

• of some funding streams for transit systems.

Expand the scope of work

• that dental hygienists are allowed to perform.
• New cellphone fee to pay for

rural broadband

, a

version

• of which died in the 2019 legislative session.

Changes to child welfare investigations and oversight, including allowing abuse screeners to temporarily close at screening reports of third party abuse not concerning people most frequently in contact with the child and requiring state licensing of all out-of-state programs used by the state.