Allows taxpayer to direct portion of income tax refund to purpose of providing housing to low income persons. Applies to individual income tax returns for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to provide loans to hospitals for establishing new primary care residency programs. Modifies cost-sharing program to train residency physicians and interns, transfers administration of program from Office of Student Access and Completion to Oregon Health Authority and extends program sunset to July 1, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to conduct study regarding cost savings and expense reductions that may result to small businesses from cooperative resource sharing. Requires department to submit report regarding study to interim legislative committees no later than November 1, 2018. Sunsets January 1, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer program to issue grants to address tourism-related coastal infrastructure needs. Requires department to select grant recipients in consultation with nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing community needs through collaborative governance. Requires department to submit quarterly reports to Legislative Assembly on progress of projects that receive grant funding. Allocates $300 million of lottery revenue to department. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that Director of the Oregon Health 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.
Requires Legislative Fiscal Officer to prepare economic impact statements when proposed legislative measures are reported out of committee and Legislative Fiscal Officer determines that measures may have effect on jobs and job creation or destruction, wages and salaries, business expansion or contraction or other economic measures. Requires Legislative Fiscal Officer to also prepare economic impact statements when adopted administrative rules have effect on jobs and job creation or destruction, wages and salaries, business expansion or contraction or other economic measures. Sets forth procedures for uses of economic impact statements for both measures and rules.
Directs Department of Education to administer pilot program to offer summer education to elementary school students in high poverty, low performing schools with high populations of English language learners. Sunsets pilot program on January 2, 2020. Establishes Summer Learning Fund, separate and distinct from General Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in Summer Learning Fund to State Library for purposes of funding summer learning planning, programming and awareness. Appropriates moneys from General Fund for deposit in Summer Learning Fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits performance of late-term sex-selective abortion.
Requires Legislative Policy and Research Director to provide small business impact statement if statement is requested in writing by two members of Legislative Assembly, each member from different major political party. Provides that statement describe likely effects of proposed legislative measure on small businesses that employ fewer than 50 employees. Requires director to prepare and deliver statements to requesters within 14 calendar days of request and to thereafter monitor and report effects of subsequent amendments to measure.
Creates credit against income tax for replacement of certain trucks used by taxpayer in course of business. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Land Use Board of Appeals to award prevailing party actual damages equal to economic loss due to project delays caused by proceeding initiated based on position not well-founded in law or on fact.
Authorizes gun dealer to accept for safekeeping firearm surrendered by person or family or household member of person who is at risk of causing physical injury to self or others with firearm. Provides civil and criminal immunity to gun dealer who accepts firearm for safekeeping.
