Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Office of Emergency Management for implementation of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates advisory committee within office to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from fund.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to provide funds to assist first-time home buyers from low income households through programs administered by department and grants to eligible nonprofit organizations, housing authorities and local governments. Specifies grant requirements. Establishes Home Ownership Down Payment Assistance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department. Appropriates moneys to department to make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations, housing authorities and local governments. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Modifies crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle. Provides that person commits crime by knowingly taking, operating, exercising control over, riding in or otherwise using another's vehicle, boat or aircraft, and person knows or fails to be aware of substantial and unjustifiable risk that owner of vehicle, boat or aircraft does not consent thereto. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires pharmacy to report deidentified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone. Requires pharmacy to report certain other identifying information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed controlled substance classified in schedules II through IV. Requires information to be disclosed from prescription monitoring program to medical director or pharmacy director. Requires information to be disclosed from prescription monitoring program for certain other purposes. Requires licensing information of licensees who are authorized to prescribe or dispense controlled substances to be provided to Oregon Health Authority for purpose of qualifying licensees to report information to, or receive information from, prescription monitoring program. Specifies that authority may require person requesting deidentified information from prescription monitoring program to enter into data use agreement with authority. Requires authority, not less than once per year, to develop, through use of prescription monitoring program, criteria by which practitioner may be required to receive education or training on prescribing of opioids or opiates. Creates Prescription Monitoring Program Prescribing Practices Review Subcommittee for purposes of advising authority on development of criteria, reviewing practitioner's history to determine whether practitioner meets criteria and directing authority to provide educational material to practitioner who meets criteria. Provides that authority may enter into agreements governing sharing and use of information reported to prescription monitoring program with regulatory authorities of other states that administer prescription monitoring programs. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to conduct evaluation related to behavioral health services provided to public school students. Requires authority to submit report no later than December 30, 2017. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Oregon Energy and Climate Board as oversight and advisory body for Oregon Department of Energy and Climate. Establishes Energy Industry Advisory Committee to provide certain information and recommendations to board. Establishes Interagency Climate Coordinating Committee to make recommendations to board and Legislative Assembly on ways to coordinate state policies , programs, projects and activities related to energy and climate and to develop certain recommendations and strategies related to mitigating and adapting to impacts of climate change. Changes name of State Department of Energy to Oregon Department of Energy and Climate. Changes name of Director of State Department of Energy to Energy and Climate Director. Abolishes Oregon Global Warming Commission. Modifies state energy policy. Modifies general duties of department. Requires department, in coordination with board, to develop proposal for restructuring policies and programs related to greenhouse gas emissions or climate change in pursuance of certain goals. Requires board and department to submit proposal to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2018. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires schools to instruct and drill students on survival after natural disaster. Requires Department of Education to develop age-appropriate curriculum relating to earthquake and tsunami safety. Requires school districts to implement curriculum. Permits school districts to opt out of implementation of curriculum.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide covered employee with portion of wages while on family medical leave or military leave. Requires employer and employee contributions to fund program. Allows self-employed individuals to opt into program. Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine contribution amounts and weekly benefit amounts. Establishes Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund. Amends Oregon family leave law to allow for leave after employee has been employed for 90 days with employer to match waiting period for benefits. Protects employee's position of employment with employer while employee is on leave. Prohibits employer from retaliating against employee who invokes program and from interfering with employee rights under program. Requires director to work with other agencies and promulgate rules for administration of program. Directs Department of Revenue to administer collection and reporting requirements of contribution provisions. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Oregon Opportunity Commission. Authorizes commission to make grants and loans from Oregon Opportunity Fund to support local communities that have submitted plan to address poverty. Directs commission to adopt rules setting criteria for awarding and uses of grants and loans. Establishes Oregon Opportunity Fund. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for deposit in Oregon Opportunity Fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of Oregon National Guard. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Designates Act as Oregon First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act. Permits individual to create first-time home buyer savings account with financial institution to pay or reimburse account holder's eligible costs for first-time purchase of single family residence. Allows subtraction from account holder's federal taxable income amounts contributed to first-time home buyer savings account during each tax year. Exempts from taxation amount of interest and other income earned on account. Disallows subtraction or exemption from taxable income for person other than account holder who contributes funds to account. Provides that withdrawals for other than approved purposes are taxable income to account holder. Establishes amount and time limitations on subtractions and exemptions from taxable income. Directs Department of Revenue to create means for designating subtraction to which account holder is entitled in individual state income tax return form. Requires financial institution to provide account holder with certificate containing specified information about account. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2024. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Creates Oregon Premium Protection Program in Department of Consumer and Business Services and establishes Oregon Premium Protection Fund. Requires pharmaceutical manufacturer to pay to department cost of prescription drug that exceeds specified threshold. Requires department to use payments to reimburse insurers, third party administrators, Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board, health care service contractors and multiple employer welfare arrangements for incurred costs of drug that exceeds specified threshold. Requires pharmaceutical manufacturer to provide 60 days' advance notice of increase in cost of prescription drug that exceeds 3.4 percent over 12-month period. Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board, health care service contractors, multiple employer welfare arrangements and carriers for small employer, group or individual health benefit plans from requiring enrollees to incur out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs that exceed specified maximums. Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services specified information about prescription drug costs and about patient assistance programs. Authorizes civil penalties for failing to report or to make payments required by Oregon Premium Protection Program . Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board, health care service contractors, multiple employer welfare arrangements and carriers for small employer, group or individual health benefit plans to make available online specified information about prescription drug coverage and costs and to post to website 30 days' advance notice of termination of coverage of prescription drug .
