Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Legislative Administration Committee, Legislative Assembly, Legislative Counsel Committee, Legislative Fiscal Officer, Legislative Revenue Officer, Commission on Indian Services and Legislative Policy and Research Committee for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by certain legislative branch agencies. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department, in collaboration with Oregon Health Authority, to disburse moneys in Housing for Mental Health Fund for development of community-based housing, crisis intervention services, rental subsidies and other housing-related services for individuals with mental illness and individuals with substance use disorders . Requires department to convene advisory group. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to disburse moneys from National Board Certification Fund for reimbursement of certain costs related to national board certification of teachers. Expands sources of moneys for fund. Directs commission to renew, without charge, license of educator who is certified by national professional organization for teaching standards. Directs commission to submit to legislative committees of Legislative Assembly report related to national board certification of teachers.
Amends findings by Legislative Assembly regarding provision of care and treatment for impounded or seized animals. Revises provisions regarding defendant's payment of costs to provide animal with minimum care. Prohibits person convicted of animal neglect in the first degree or animal neglect in the second degree from possessing certain animals for period of 15 years after conviction if crime of conviction was felony. Allows reduction in prohibition period if convicted person successfully completes mental health treatment approved by court. Clarifies that person convicted of possessing animal in violation of prohibition may be further prohibited from possessing certain animals as condition of probation. Amends definition of "livestock" for purposes of certain statutes involving offenses against animals. Amends Insurance Code definition of "insurance" to exclude contracts for lease or rental of animal under which owner retains obligation to provide for veterinary care or other need of animal. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to develop method for recording data concerning officer-initiated pedestrian and traffic stops. Directs Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to develop training and procedures for recording data. Requires law enforcement agencies to begin recording required officer-involved pedestrian and traffic stop data beginning on date based on size of agency. Requires agencies to provide recorded data to commission beginning on date based on size of agency. Requires that data not individually identify law enforcement officers or persons who were subject of traffic stops. Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to review, using statistical analysis, officer-initiated pedestrian and traffic stop data received from law enforcement agencies, and report no later than December 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, to Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary. Directs department to review report received from commission. Authorizes department to provide advice and technical assistance to law enforcement agency named in report. Directs department to report assistance to local public safety coordinating council in public meeting. Directs Department of State Police to develop standardized profiling complaint report form. Specifies contents of form and manner in which law enforcement agency submits form to Law Enforcement Contacts Policy and Data Review Committee. Reduces crime classification of unlawful possession of controlled substance in Schedule I. Punishes by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, except in specified circumstances. Retains current crime classification if possession is of usable quantity and is commercial drug offense, if person has prior felony conviction or two or more prior unlawful possession of controlled substance convictions, or if person possesses certain quantity of controlled substance. Reduces crime classification of unlawful possession of controlled substance in Schedule II. Punishes by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, except in specified circumstances. Retains current crime classification if possession is of usable quantity and is commercial drug offense, if person has prior felony conviction or two or more prior unlawful possession of controlled substance convictions, or if person possesses certain quantity of controlled substance. Requires county to supervise offenders convicted of certain drug-related misdemeanors. Provides that person convicted of certain drug-related misdemeanors qualifies for earned reduction in term of probation. Provides that justice courts and municipal courts do not have jurisdiction over certain drug-related misdemeanors. Reduces maximum term of imprisonment for Class A misdemeanor crime from one year to 364 days. Reduces maximum period of institutionalization or commitment, from one year to 364 days, for youth offender found to have committed act that, if committed by adult, would constitute Class A misdemeanor. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study impact of possession of controlled substance crime classification reduction and report on results of study to committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary no later than September 15, 2018. Increases General Fund appropriations to commission and to Department of State Police for purposes of implementing Act. Increases expenditure limitations for Department of State Police and for Department of Public Safety Standards and Training for purposes of implementing Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs State Chief Information Officer to include links to websites established by certain entities on Oregon transparency website.
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, 2017.
Exempts from property taxation real and personal property, including inventory, of retail store owned by nonprofit corporation if retail store deals exclusively in donated inventory and operates with substantial support from volunteers and all net proceeds of retail store sales are donated to nonprofit corporation that provides animal rescue services, to manufacturer or provider of goods or services in return for which nonprofit corporation that provides animal rescue services receives equivalent value of goods or services, to entity that provides spaying and neutering services for pets of individuals in low-income households or to aid domesticated animals in furtherance of purpose for which nonprofit corporation that owns retail store was organized. Applies to property tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2017. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Extends sunset date for public safety fiscal emergency program for counties. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies eligibility for Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program. Authorizes court to consider program eligibility as mitigating factor justifying downward departure probation sentence. Increases maximum period of short-term transitional leave for certain Department of Corrections inmates. Reduces, for crimes of theft in the first degree and identity theft, presumptive sentences and eliminates mandatory sentences when defendant has prior property crime convictions. Increases number of prior property crime convictions required for presumptive sentence for theft in the first degree and identity theft to apply. Authorizes supervisory authority to require person convicted of certain property crimes and sentenced to probation to receive high level of supervision. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award supplemental grant funds for county downward departure prison diversion programs. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for deposit in Justice Reinvestment Account to fund supplemental grants. Appropriates moneys to Department of Justice for services for victims of domestic and sexual violence. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to monitor downward departure prison diversion programs receiving supplemental grant funds and to study impact of Act on prison population, recidivism rates and public safety. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates Office of Outdoor Recreation within State Parks and Recreation Department. Creates Associate Director of Outdoor Recreation. Prescribes duties of office and of associate director. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Provides Attorney General with increased enforcement authority over contraband cigarette sales in conjunction with nonparticipating manufacturer adjustment settlement related to tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. Imposes joint and several liability on importer and nonparticipating manufacturer for violation of escrow provisions. Requires nonparticipating manufacturer to post bond to secure escrow obligations. Enhances certification requirements. Allows for sharing of information among Attorney General, Department of Revenue and other federal, state or local agencies for purpose of enforcing Master Settlement Agreement provisions. Prohibits sales of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products via mail, telephone or electronic network. Authorizes execution of investigative demand by Attorney General. Allows for civil penalties. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
