Extends timeline for filing complaint with Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries alleging retaliation or discrimination for reporting unlawful practices or exercising certain rights relating to safety and health in workplace.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to allocate moneys from Watershed Conservation Operating Fund to various state agencies to implement Article XV, section 4b, of Oregon Constitution. Limits biennial expenditures by board from federal funds and lottery funds. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by board. Directs board to establish by rule process for allocating available moneys in Natural Resources Subaccount of Parks and Natural Resources Fund. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.
Regulates use of chemical incapacitants, kinetic impact projectiles , sound devices and strobe lights ] and sound devices by law enforcement agencies. Prohibits law enforcement agency from using proxy law enforcement agency to enact measures that court or statute has barred law enforcement agency from using. Prohibits law enforcement agency from acting in concert with another law enforcement agency to engage in misconduct barred by statute or court order. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires court to send to Department of Corrections certified copy of order setting aside conviction.
Provides that local law regulating sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regards to persons experiencing homelessness. Creates affirmative defense to charge of violating such local law that law is not objectively reasonable. Creates cause of action for person experiencing homelessness to challenge objective reasonableness of such local law. Authorizes court to award attorney fees to prevailing plaintiff in such suit in certain circumstances. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Clarifies that all housing authorities must participate in Housing Choice Landlord Guarantee Program. Changes eligibility for reimbursement under program. Raises per-tenant limit and eliminates per-landlord limit for reimbursements under Rent Guarantee Program.
Decouples Oregon Telephone Assistance Program from funding offered by Federal Communications Commission. Modifies sunset provisions applicable to Oregon Telephone Assistance Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Public Safety Standards and Training for debt service. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by department. Limits biennial expenditures by department from federal funds. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to develop, implement and periodically update plan for ] allow for installation and service of public electric vehicle charging stations in parking spaces that are part of facilities of state park system. Establishes Parks and Recreation Transportation Electrification Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys from fund to department to carry out plan. Authorizes Public Utility Commission to allow electric companies to recover costs from retail electricity consumers for prudent infrastructure measures to support transportation electrification if certain criteria are met.
Modifies authority of Department of Corrections to receive, hold and dispose of property. Expands authority to include property seized from person on probation or other supervised or conditional release. Provides for manner of disposing of unclaimed property.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department, in consultation with Department of Land Conservation and Development, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Revenue and Oregon Business Development Department, to conduct comprehensive study of system development charges. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to submit, to interim legislative committees related to housing and economic recovery and prosperity, preliminary report no later than December 31, 2021, and final report no later than June 1, 2022. Requires city, county or special district that maintains public website to include certain information regarding system development charges in manner readily accessible to general public. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances. Requires publish-for-pay publication to remove and destroy booking photo upon request within specified time period. Prohibits publication from charging fee for removal and destruction of certain booking photos. Provides that publication is liable for fees, costs and statutory damages for failure to remove and destroy photo as required.
