Directs Department of Transportation to conduct study regarding impact of department's state highway regulations on rural downtown districts. Requires department to submit report on findings to appropriate committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. ] Directs Department of Transportation to provide progress report on implementation and utilization of recommendations identified in department's report titled "Blueprint for Urban Design." Requires department to submit report to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2022. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Repeals Oregon Board of Psychology authority to issue initial psychologist associate licenses. Specifies functions that currently licensed psychologist associate may perform. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows surviving spouse or disabled heir of individual whose homestead was granted deferral under homestead property tax deferral program to continue deferral without having owned or occupied homestead for five years. Creates, for purposes of eligibility of property for homestead property tax deferral program, minimum cap of $250,000 for maximum allowable real market value of homestead. Directs Department of Revenue to adjust minimum cap for maximum allowable real market value annually according to change in Consumer Price Index. Allows claim for deferral to be filed late, with payment of fee. Modifies procedure for allowing claims for deferral in excess of maximum allowable number of claims for property tax year. Adjusts payment of interest on delinquent deferred taxes between county and department. Extends sunset for deferral program. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040. Requires electric companies to develop clean energy plans and electricity service suppliers to report information for meeting clean energy targets. Directs Department of Environment Quality to determine amount of emissions reduction necessary for each retail electricity provider to meet clean energy targets. Limits cumulative rate impact for compliance to six percent of annual revenue requirements. Permits performance incentive for early compliance. Requires electric company that files clean energy plan to convene Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group with input from stakeholders who represent interests of customers and affected entities and communities. Requires electric company to file biennial report with Public Utility Commission that assesses community benefits and impacts of electric company. Directs State Department of Energy to convene work group to examine opportunities to encourage development of small scale and community-based renewable energy projects and report findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2022. Sunsets December 15, 2022. Permits electric company, if agreed to and in coordination with government, to provide program of rates or charges to serve retail electricity consumers that covers costs of electricity generated from renewable energy resources or nonemitting energy resources or paired with unbundled renewable energy certificates. Defines "government." Requires electricity service suppliers to publicly disclose aggregated energy supply mix and associated emissions of power sources. Establishes contractor labor standards in construction or repowering of large-scale projects. Defines "large-scale project." Prohibits Energy Facility Siting Council from issuing site certificate for new generating facility that produces energy from fossil fuels unless facility generates only nonemitting electricity. Prohibits council from approving amendment of site certificate for generating facility in manner that would increase carbon dioxide emissions from operation of generating facility. Creates grant program within State Department of Energy to provide grants to Indian tribes, public bodies and consumer-owned utilities to plan or develop community renewable energy projects. Establishes Community Renewable Investment Fund within State Treasury for purposes of grant program for community renewable energy projects. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Community Renewable Investment Fund. Increases, from eight percent to 10 percent by 2030, requirement that aggregate electrical capacity of all electric companies be composed of electricity from small-scale renewable energy projects or facilities using biomass. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires owners or operators of undersea cables to obtain financial assurances for installation and removal of cable and create plan for removal of cable. Directs Department of Land Conservation and Development to review part of Territorial Sea Plan that addresses placement of cables, pipelines and other utilities in territorial sea and provide results to Ocean Policy Advisory Council. Directs Ocean Policy Advisory Council to propose ] develop recommendations for amendments to Territorial Sea Plan regarding placement of undersea cables within territorial sea. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Legislative Revenue Officer to study state and local tax systems and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to revenue no later than September 15, 2022. ] Modifies provisions allowing for income and corporate excise tax credits. Extends or establishes sunsets for certain tax expenditures. Increases limitations on tax credits allowed for all taxpayers, for certain tax credits. Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for amounts received as AmeriCorps national service educational awards, for personal income taxpayers. Applies to amounts received in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2027. Exempts from state and local transient lodging taxes military lodging used for temporary overnight human occupancy by active or retired members or service veterans of Armed Forces of the United States or National Guard or by employees or agents of Oregon Military Department. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Extends sunset of property tax exemption for property of nonprofit corporation offered, occupied or used as low-income housing. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Makes technical changes in Oregon statutes. Corrects cross-references to statute. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households. Conditions tax exemption on property being subject to covenant to maintain affordability for not less than 60 years. Provides that default six-year sunset of tax expenditures does not apply to exemption. Requires initial claim to be filed with Department of Revenue and annual claims with county assessor thereafter. Restricts conditions that local governments may place on development of affordable housing provided by religious nonprofit corporations and expands zoning where such housing must be allowed. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Makes corrections to and updates tax statutes. Allows governing body of local government to elect definition of "low income" from expanded definition for purposes of certain rental property tax exemptions. Clarifies that property tax exemption for environmentally sensitive logging equipment applies to logging equipment actually used or held for use. Allows city to extend for 24 months deadline for completion of construction of single-unit housing eligible for property tax exemption. Extends sunset for homestead property tax deferral program. ] Aligns provision for calculating interest paid by Department of Revenue if refund is owed with similar interest provisions. Applies to tax refunds owing as of January 1, 2018. ] Allows tax credit for contribution to Oregon Production Investment Fund or for contribution made by April 15 of tax year to Opportunity Grant Fund for tax year immediately preceding current tax year, if return is not yet filed for preceding tax year. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019 ] 2021 , and before January 1, 2024. Advances sunset and deadline for contributions for tax credit for donation to fiduciary organization for distribution to individual development accounts. ] Provides that infrastructure for which tax credit for short line railroad rehabilitation is allowed may be leased. Establishes $700,000 per-taxpayer limit on tax credit in single tax year. Modifies prioritization process if preliminary certifications exceed total amount available for credit. Changes biennial cap on amount available for credit to annual cap. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2026. ] Requires biennial review of special use fuel license fees by Department of Transportation and Oregon Transportation Commission. ] Allows Department of Revenue to disclose information about vehicle privilege tax to Department of Transportation. Authorizes municipal tax collection agency in city with population of 250,000 or more, for purpose of conducting certain criminal background checks, to require fingerprints and to enter into agreements with Department of State Police. Creates exemption against personal income or corporate excise tax for sale of manufactured dwelling park destroyed by natural disaster to nonprofit corporation or housing authority, for redevelopment of park. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Excludes over-the-air broadcasting ] from meaning of "communication , " for purposes of central assessment for property taxation , services of television and radio stations licensed by Federal Communications Commission that use primarily earth-based transmitters to broadcast programming via radio waves to television or radio receivers that use indoor or outdoor antennas for reception . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to study public employee retirement and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. ] Provides that certain employee of State Fire Marshal qualifies as firefighter for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System. Modifies dates on which Public Employees Retirement Board must initiate, resume or reduce payment of certain increased benefits under Public Employees Retirement System because benefit payments are or are not subject to Oregon personal income tax. Provides for restoration of certain retirement credit forfeited at end of 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
