Prohibits Oregon Educators Benefit Board from charging fee to opt out of coverage.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to conduct study regarding affordable housing no later than July 1, 2018. Requires department to submit report regarding study to interim legislative committees no later than November 1, 2018. Sunsets January 2, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Transfers authority relating to plan review and inspections of health care facilities from State Fire Marshal to Department of Consumer and Business Services. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Limits, for purposes of personal income taxation, availability of itemized deductions. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Limits fees payable to qualified community development entity in connection with qualified equity investment. Extends sunset for tax credit for qualified equity investment. Increases maximum amount of qualified equity investments that Oregon Business Development Department may certify per tax year, and maximum amount of qualified low-income community investments that may be made in qualified active low-income community business and all affiliates. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, and to qualified equity investments made in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Effective January 1, 2018, repeals nonurban county minimum wage tier and replaces it with urban minimum wage tier for certain cities, increasing incrementally on annual basis through 2023. Creates separate minimum wage for agricultural workers, increasing annually through 2023. Modifies amounts of current annual increases, to take place on January 1 each year beginning in 2018, and provides for adjustments based on inflation.
Imposes excise tax on coffee beans and ground coffee. Requires Department of Revenue to deposit excise tax amounts in Alternative Education Sustainability Fund. Establishes Alternative Education Sustainability Fund. Directs Oregon Military Department to allocate 50 percent of funds to Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program for operations and capital construction. Directs Department of Education to use 50 percent of funds to make grants to alternative high school programs for operations and capital construction and, with approval of Governor, to primary schools for primary reading programs. Establishes Alternative Education Sustainability Board to make recommendations for distributions and grant awards. Becomes operative July 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Governor to consult with metropolitan planning organization before appointing director to board of certain mass transit districts. Increases number of directors on boards of directors of certain mass transit districts to 11 from seven. Establishes knowledge and experience requirements for additional directors. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to conduct study and develop recommendations related to emissions of air contaminants from industrial sources. Requires department to present results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment and natural resources no later than September 15, 2018. Sunsets December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Makes legislative findings regarding provision of antibiotics and its relation to public health. Prohibits administration or other provision of medically important antibiotic to food-producing animal for nontherapeutic purposes. Requires operator of concentrated animal feeding operation to file annual report regarding administration of medically important antibiotics to food-producing animals at operation. Makes prohibition and reporting applicable to provision of antibiotics to food-producing animals on or after January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Encourages equitable and diverse gender representation on boards and in senior management of companies in Oregon.
Requires value of transferable tax credit to be lower of value determined at time of application for preliminary certification or at time of final certification. Applies to tax credits transferred on or after effective date of Act. Extends availability of tax credit on basis of date by which taxpayer receives preliminary certification. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
