Revises types of programs considered accelerated college credit programs for purpose of requirement that school districts provide accelerated college credit programs. Revises duties of Higher Education Coordinating Commission related to accelerated college credit programs. Establishes Task Force on Accelerated Learning. Prescribes duties of task force. Directs task force to submit progress and final reports to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates income tax credit for employing up to three youth workers. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Oregon Tourism Commission to identify, designate and monitor tourism districts in this state. Allows tourism district to apply to commission for assistance in obtaining grants from Oregon Business Development Department for community development and from Department of Transportation for community transit investments. Allows tourism district to request assistance from commission in applying for and obtaining temporary waivers of land use and building code requirements and regulations of public entities. Authorizes commission to identify and designate tourism and recreation activity that is live performance as priority tourism and recreation activity not subject to crime of unlawful recording of live performance.
Requires prosecuting attorney to identify person subject to investigative demand and specify basis for belief that person has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in unlawful trade practice. Specifies certain procedures that prosecuting attorney must follow and showings that prosecuting attorney must make in bringing action to compel response to investigative demand. Specifies requirements for bringing action to enjoin alleged unlawful trade practice. Requires prosecuting attorney to have good cause for rejecting assurance of voluntary compliance. Requires request for monetary penalty or restitution to demonstrate that amount is reasonably related to nature of unlawful trade practice and to harm that unlawful trade practice caused. Requires court to award attorney fees and costs to prevailing defendant in specified circumstances.
Creates refundable personal income tax credit for mortgage interest payments made for taxpayer's principal residence. Phases out allowed amount of credit based on amount of federal adjusted gross income. Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence. 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 Help In Cutting Costs for Unusual Pharmaceuticals program in Oregon Health Authority to reimburse high costs incurred by persons in this state to purchase certain pharmaceutical products. Requires Department of Revenue to transfer specified amount of corporate excise taxes paid on Oregon sales of pharmaceutical products by pharmaceutical manufacturers doing business in Oregon to pay for administration of program.
Requires party in criminal case to provide hard copy or electronic copy of discovery material to adverse party unless copy cannot reasonably be provided. Prohibits parties from charging fee to adverse party for providing discovery material.
Directs education service districts to include in local service plans provisions related to access to social workers.
Directs Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to establish program to award grants to state certified appraisers and state licensed appraisers to whom board issues certificate or license on or after January 1, 2018. Directs board to issue temporary certificates and licenses to engage in real estate appraisal activity. Sunsets January 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Preempts city, county or other local government from enacting charter provision, ordinance, resolution or other provision regulating expansion of infrastructure for primary purpose of transporting or storing fossil fuels.
Requires public body, before entering into legal services agreement that includes contingency fee arrangement with private legal counsel, to estimate fiscal impact of legal services agreement. Specifies provisions that legal services agreement must have to protect public body before public body may enter into legal services agreement. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
