Directs Oregon Business Development Department to issue loans or grants to City of Gold Beach to construct training facility for public safety personnel. Establishes Public Safety Training Facility Construction Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department for facility. Transfers moneys to Public Safety Training Facility Construction Fund from General Fund.
Directs payment of sales incentive to salesperson employed by electric motor vehicle dealer who sells, leases or exchanges for trade-in allowance new electric motor vehicle. Requires electric motor vehicle dealer to provide notice to Department of Revenue within 45 days of sale, lease or exchange of new electric motor vehicle and to provide identifying information about salesperson eligible for sales incentive. Directs department to pay sales incentive to salesperson who sold, leased or exchanged new electric motor vehicle within 45 days of receipt of notice. Limits maximum amount of sales incentives that may be paid by department. Establishes Electric Motor Vehicle Sales Incentive Fund.
Modifies fee schedule for sources subject to federal operating permit program under Title V of federal Clean Air Act to include specific activity fee to fund investigation of complaints related to sources subject to federal operating permit program . Requires certain air contamination sources to pay one-time supplemental fee to Department of Environmental Quality for payment of certain expenses in developing and implementing program and rules to reduce public health risks of emissions of toxic air pollutants from industrial sources. Sets forth supplemental fee to be paid based on permit type applicable to source. Adds grants and loans for replacements to permissible uses of moneys in Clean Diesel Engine Fund. Makes other modifications to provisions for grants and loans from fund for purpose of reducing emissions from diesel engines. Authorizes State of Oregon to receive moneys pursuant to Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Agreement, deposit agreement moneys in Clean Diesel Engine Fund and use moneys to award grants for reducing emissions from diesel engines. Specifies allocation of grants from agreement moneys. Allows assessment of civil penalties for violations of certain motor vehicle emission standards by persons other than motor vehicle owners and their lessees. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Office of Emergency Management for implementation of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates advisory committee within office to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from fund.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to provide funds to assist first-time home buyers from low income households through programs administered by department and grants to eligible nonprofit organizations, housing authorities and local governments. Specifies grant requirements. Establishes Home Ownership Down Payment Assistance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department. Appropriates moneys to department to make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations, housing authorities and local governments. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Modifies crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle. Provides that person commits crime by knowingly taking, operating, exercising control over, riding in or otherwise using another's vehicle, boat or aircraft, and person knows or fails to be aware of substantial and unjustifiable risk that owner of vehicle, boat or aircraft does not consent thereto. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires pharmacy to report deidentified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone. Requires pharmacy to report certain other identifying information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed controlled substance classified in schedules II through IV. Requires information to be disclosed from prescription monitoring program to medical director or pharmacy director. Requires information to be disclosed from prescription monitoring program for certain other purposes. Requires licensing information of licensees who are authorized to prescribe or dispense controlled substances to be provided to Oregon Health Authority for purpose of qualifying licensees to report information to, or receive information from, prescription monitoring program. Specifies that authority may require person requesting deidentified information from prescription monitoring program to enter into data use agreement with authority. Requires authority, not less than once per year, to develop, through use of prescription monitoring program, criteria by which practitioner may be required to receive education or training on prescribing of opioids or opiates. Creates Prescription Monitoring Program Prescribing Practices Review Subcommittee for purposes of advising authority on development of criteria, reviewing practitioner's history to determine whether practitioner meets criteria and directing authority to provide educational material to practitioner who meets criteria. Provides that 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.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to conduct evaluation related to behavioral health services provided to public school students. Requires authority to submit report no later than December 30, 2017. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Oregon Energy and Climate Board as oversight and advisory body for Oregon Department of Energy and Climate. Establishes Energy Industry Advisory Committee to provide certain information and recommendations to board. Establishes Interagency Climate Coordinating Committee to make recommendations to board and Legislative Assembly on ways to coordinate state policies , programs, projects and activities related to energy and climate and to develop certain recommendations and strategies related to mitigating and adapting to impacts of climate change. Changes name of State Department of Energy to Oregon Department of Energy and Climate. Changes name of Director of State Department of Energy to Energy and Climate Director. Abolishes Oregon Global Warming Commission. Modifies state energy policy. Modifies general duties of department. Requires department, in coordination with board, to develop proposal for restructuring policies and programs related to greenhouse gas emissions or climate change in pursuance of certain goals. Requires board and department to submit proposal to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2018. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires schools to instruct and drill students on survival after natural disaster. Requires Department of Education to develop age-appropriate curriculum relating to earthquake and tsunami safety. Requires school districts to implement curriculum. Permits school districts to opt out of implementation of curriculum.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide covered employee with portion of wages while on family medical leave or military leave. Requires employer and employee contributions to fund program. Allows self-employed individuals to opt into program. Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine contribution amounts and weekly benefit amounts. Establishes Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund. Amends Oregon family leave law to allow for leave after employee has been employed for 90 days with employer to match waiting period for benefits. Protects employee's position of employment with employer while employee is on leave. Prohibits employer from retaliating against employee who invokes program and from interfering with employee rights under program. Requires director to work with other agencies and promulgate rules for administration of program. Directs Department of Revenue to administer collection and reporting requirements of contribution provisions. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Oregon Opportunity Commission. Authorizes commission to make grants and loans from Oregon Opportunity Fund to support local communities that have submitted plan to address poverty. Directs commission to adopt rules setting criteria for awarding and uses of grants and loans. Establishes Oregon Opportunity Fund. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for deposit in Oregon Opportunity Fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
