Creates refundable income tax credit for renting farmland to beginning farmers for term of three years. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Authorizes district or city to require consent to eventual annexation of property before providing extraterritorial service to property. Creates exception if extraterritorial service is provided pursuant to certain intergovernmental agreements, if consent is not requirement of intergovernmental agreement or of comprehensive plan adopted for area in which property is situated and if extraterritorial service is service other than water service, sewer service, storm water service, constructing first paved access to property or service provided by municipal electric utility. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to provide medical assistance, within available funds, to low income children residing in Oregon if necessary to move toward goals of Legislative Assembly expressed in law and to improve health of Oregon communities. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Task Force on Brownfields Tax Credits. Directs task force to study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning brownfields tax credits. Directs task force to report findings and recommendations to Senate and House interim committees on revenue on or before December 1, 2018. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires that state and commercial water bottler enter into agreement for sharing gross amount received from sale of water prior to state agency transferring interest in real property having appurtenant water right to bottler or prior to Water Resources Department issuing water right to bottler for certain waters formerly reserved, conserved or withdrawn from appropriation. Prohibits issuing commercial water bottler right to use water formerly reserved for in-stream use. Prohibits exchange of in-stream use of water to benefit commercial water bottler. Provides that commercial water bottler's use of water in violation of requirements or prohibition is not beneficial use for purposes of water right forfeiture statutes. Creates rebuttable presumption that transfer of property interest or issuance of water right for formerly reserved or withdrawn water was subject to agreement requirement if commercial water bottler is allowed use of water less than one year after property interest transfer or issuance of water right. Creates rebuttable presumption that in-stream water right was issued or exchanged in violation of prohibition if commercial water bottler is allowed use of water less than one year after issuance or less than one year after first injury resulting from exchange.
For purposes of corporate minimum tax, modifies definition of Oregon sales to exclude sales made from Oregon to state in which taxpayer is not taxable and sales of intangible property unless attributable to this state's marketplace. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Broadens county's existing authority to exempt from ad valorem property taxation up to $250,000 of assessed value of each homestead owned and occupied by surviving spouse of fire service professional, police officer or reserve officer killed in line of duty to include homesteads of surviving spouses of corrections officers killed in line of duty. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to _____ for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by _______. Limits biennial expenditures of _____ from federal funds. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Creates schedule by which certain percentage of electricity sold by electric company to retail electricity consumers must be electricity generated by qualifying small-scale renewable energy projects. Specifies, for small-scale renewable energy projects, electricity delivery requirements. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that judicial marshal certified by Department of Public Safety Standards and Training qualifies as police officer under Public Employees Retirement System. Provides that judicial marshal employed on effective date of Act is entitled to service in retirement system as police officer for all service performed as certified judicial marshal.
Establishes Task Force on Workforce Development. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Higher Education Coordinating Commission and Youth Development Council to work together to study how current workforce development system functions and recommend changes for organizational efficiency.
