Requires school districts to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and education. Takes effect July 1, 2022. ].
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes department as independent state agency. Directs department to carry out certain functions related to regional and statewide emergency response and preparedness. Transfers Oregon Emergency Response System from Department of State Police to Oregon Department of Emergency Management, operative July 1, 2025. Renames office of State Fire Marshal as Department of the State Fire Marshal and establishes department as independent state agency, operative July 1, 2023. Transfers Oregon Homeland Security Council to Office of Governor. Adds members to and modifies duties of commission. Establishes Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to facilitate policy recommendations related to catastrophic disaster. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes Local Government Emergency Management Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations to Oregon Department of Emergency Management regarding department's emergency preparedness and response functions. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes task force to make recommendations as to whether State Fire Marshal should be made independent state agency or housed within existing state agency, operative immediately. Directs task force to report recommendations by February 1, 2022. Becomes operative on July 1, 2022, except as specified. Appropriates moneys from General Fund and increases certain expenditure limitations for various state agencies to carry out provisions of Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Secretary of State to conduct study and analyze best practices for financing electoral campaigns. Requires secretary to develop recommendations regarding most effective method for financing electoral campaigns in Oregon. ] Requires secretary to submit report to interim legislative committees detailing recommendations by September 15, 2022. ] Sunsets January 2, 2023. ] Requires ballots returned by mail to have postal indicator showing ballot was mailed not later than date of election and be received by county clerk not later than seven days after date of election. Moves quarterly election date from third Tuesday in September to fourth Tuesday in August. Allows county clerks to open and begin counting ballot upon receipt. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2022.
Directs Legislative Administrator ] presiding officers of each house of Legislative Assembly to represent legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with legislative department employee bargaining units. Permits presiding officers to delegate collective bargaining responsibility to chief negotiator. Clarifies that only state agencies within executive department are to be represented by Oregon Department of Administrative Services in collective bargaining negotiations.
Requires Secretary of State to randomly select for examination accounts of political committees. Requires that examinations occur four times per calendar year and determine whether committee accurately and timely complied with filing requirements during three months immediately preceding examination. Permits Secretary of State or Attorney General, upon reasonable suspicion of violation, to examine accounts of person, political committee or petition committee being investigated as result of elector filing complaint alleging violation of election law or rule.
Requires statement of economic interest to include certain information about sources of income for business in which public official or candidate, or member of household of public official or candidate, is officer, holds directorship or does business under if source of income has legislative or administrative interest and 10 percent or more of total gross annual income of business comes from that source of income.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations. Limits matching funds. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations. Limits matching funds. Allows resident taxpayers to designate contribution to Small Donor Elections Fund on income tax return form. Directs most election law penalties to Small Donor Elections Fund. Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees. ] Requires political committee to identify as caucus, measure, multicandidate, political party, recall or small donor political committee. Prohibits person from controlling more than one of each committee. ] Authorizes Secretary of State and Attorney General to require return of contribution excess of limits and impose civil penalty up to 150 percent of total amount of contribution. ] Repeals Ballot Measure 47 (2006), currently held in abeyance, which establishes limits on political campaign contributions and independent expenditures on candidate races and establishes certain campaign finance disclosure requirements. ] Becomes operative November 9, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires paid-for-by tagline on political communications by candidate to identify top five large donors to candidate's principal campaign committee.
