Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degrees in nursing to individuals with specified qualifications. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Repeals statewide prohibition on city and county ordinances regulating rents. Permits city or county to adopt rent stabilization program with certain restrictions. Imposes moratorium on rent increases greater than five percent for residential tenancies, with exceptions. Sunsets moratorium on July 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Occupational Safety and Health Division of Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor dispute with employer that employs more than 100 employees in industry involving hazardous materials. Directs division to submit report to Legislative Assembly with findings.
Establishes Task Force on Voter Inactivation and Voter Registration Maintenance. Directs task force to study how to prevent erroneous voter registration inactivation and improve accuracy of voter registration information maintenance. Requires task force to report to appropriate joint interim committee of Legislative Assembly. Sunsets task force on date of convening of 2018 regular session of Legislative Assembly. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Task Force on Vision Zero: Achieving Zero Traffic Crashes, Injuries and Fatalities. Sunsets December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Task Force on Housing Supply. Directs task force to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2018. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Permits owner of lot in planned community to record meetings of owners and meetings of board of directors. Permits board of directors to adopt guidelines governing recording of meetings. Prohibits board of directors from adopting provisions prohibiting recording of meetings.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene work group to advise and assist in implementing targeted outreach and marketing for Health Care for All Oregon Children program. Permits all children residing in Oregon and meeting financial eligibility requirements to enroll in program. Requires authority, in collaboration with Department of Consumer and Business Services if necessary, to seek necessary federal approval or waiver of federal requirements to secure federal financial participation in costs of outreach and marketing and in expansion of eligibility for program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs State Department of Energy to study treating anhydrous ammonia as renewable energy source for purposes of renewable portfolio standard. Directs department to report on study to certain interim committees of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2018. Sunsets January 1, 2019.
Establishes Oregon Right to Rest Act. Makes violation unlawful practice enforceable by Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries or by civil action.
Specifies that Oregon Health Authority may not register marijuana grow sites, marijuana processing sites and medical marijuana dispensaries. Repeals provisions regulating marijuana grow sites, marijuana processing sites and medical marijuana dispensaries on June 30, 2018. Updates and creates provisions providing for licensing of marijuana grow sites, marijuana processing sites and medical marijuana dispensaries by Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Transfers duty to adopt rules related to testing and labeling marijuana items and setting dosage standards for marijuana items from authority to commission. Becomes operative June 30, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Eliminates $100 transaction limit before details of expenditures or contributions must be reported and made public. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
