74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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LC 1025
 
                         House Bill 2139
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Attorney General Hardy
  Myers for Department of Justice)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Provides that mediation of workplace interpersonal disputes
between employees of public body may be confidential.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to mediation; amending ORS 36.228.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 36.228 is amended to read:
  36.228. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 36.220
to 36.238, if the only parties to a mediation are public bodies,
mediation communications and mediation agreements in the
mediation are not confidential except to the extent those
communications or agreements are exempt from disclosure under ORS
192.410 to 192.505.  { + Mediation of workplace interpersonal
disputes between employees of a public body is not subject to
this subsection. + }
  (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 36.220 to
36.238, if two or more public bodies are parties to a mediation
in which a private person is also a party, mediation
communications in the mediation are not confidential if the laws,
rules or policies governing confidentiality of mediation
communications for at least one of the public bodies provide that
mediation communications in the mediation are not confidential.
  (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 36.220 to
36.238, if two or more public bodies are parties to a mediation
in which a private person is also a party, mediation agreements
in the mediation are not confidential if the laws, rules or
policies governing confidentiality of mediation agreements for at
least one of the public bodies provide that mediation agreements
in the mediation are not confidential.
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