Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage. Specifies eligibility requirements for program and duties of authority in administering program. ] Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens. Requires department to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health, no later than April 15, 2020, findings of study and cost of administering program to provide oral health care to COFA citizens residing in this state. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility. Authorizes Higher Education Coordinating Commission to waive requirement that person enrolled in program must enroll in sufficient number of credit hours to be considered at least half-time student, under specified circumstances.
Requires Department of Revenue to collect, on local rather than regional level, local transient lodging taxes that department collects under agreements with units of local government. Requires department to fund actual start-up costs for collection on local level by withholding, in amount not to exceed $900,000, state transient lodging tax moneys that would otherwise be transferred to Oregon Tourism Commission. Requires department to reimburse commission, with interest, from reimbursement charges that would be withheld from state and local transient lodging tax revenues by transient lodging intermediaries but for disallowance of such charges under Act. Requires department to notify Legislative Counsel after department has fully reimbursed commission. Provides for refunds by department to transient lodging intermediaries of amounts received in excess of $900,000 that would otherwise have been withheld by intermediaries as collection reimbursement charge. Requires department, for purpose of enforcing state transient lodging tax, to purchase access to raw metadata scraped from Internet relating to sale, service or furnishing of transient lodging. Requires department to implement enhanced data-scraping pilot program with two to four units of local government for which department enforces local transient lodging tax. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows State Department of Fish and Wildlife to refuse or condition disclosure of information relevant to department ability to manage or protect described fish or wildlife species or individual members or populations of species. Creates exceptions ] exception to refusal authority . Exempts information from disclosure as public record. Makes disclosure criteria and public record law exemption retroactive to September 1, 2018. Validates department nondisclosures of information since September 1, 2018. Sunsets January 2, 2024. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Limits actions of persons that take clams for commercial purposes. ] Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to limit take of clams for commercial purposes. ] Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to annually assess take of clams for commercial purposes in Oregon and produce certain surveys of clam populations every six years. ] Establishes permit fees for resident and nonresident permits to take clams for commercial purposes. ] Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to produce survey of bay clam populations in priority areas of Tillamook Bay. Requires department to establish and appoint Tillamook Bay Clam Advisory Committee. Specifies advisory committee duties. Provides time lines for appointment and initial meeting of advisory committee. Requires department to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before December 31, 2022, regarding advisory committee recommendations.
Prohibits school district, community college district and certain education service district and community college district ] elections from being conducted in manner that impairs ability of members of protected class to have equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice as result of dilution or abridgment of rights of electors who are members of protected class. Establishes processes to ensure compliance with prohibition. Requires Secretary of State to ensure that forms used to nominate candidates for elected office to board of school district, education service district or community college district ] give candidate option of providing candidate's race and ethnicity.
Provides that labor organization's charging certain employees reasonable fees and costs for representation that is unrelated to negotiation of collective bargaining agreement is not unfair labor practice. Makes conforming changes. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Chief Medical Examiner to complete and file report of death for person within 45 days after receiving report from Search and Rescue Coordinator, in conjunction with county sheriff, that person is missing in wilderness and presumed dead. ] Establishes process for completing and filing report of death for person missing in wilderness or forested environment and believed to be deceased.
Prohibits retail establishments from providing single-use checkout bags to customers, except in certain cases. Prohibits restaurants from providing single-use checkout bags to customers. Requires retail establishments to charge not less than five cents each for recycled paper checkout bags, reusable fabric checkout bags or reusable plastic checkout bags provided to customers, except in certain circumstances. Requires restaurants to charge not less than five cents each for reusable plastic checkout bags provided to customers, except in certain cases. Establishes certain preemptive restrictions on local governments. Requires Department of Environmental Quality to report on certain impacts. Punishes violations by maximum fine of $250 per violation. Repeals statute requiring retail establishments that offer plastic bags to customers to also offer paper bags.
Provides that exemption from transient lodging taxation for dwelling unit used by members of general public for temporary human occupancy for fewer than 30 days per year does not apply to dwelling unit rented out as transient lodging using platform of any kind provided in any manner by transient lodging intermediary. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.