Rep. Paul Evans

Establishes Prosperity 1,000 Pilot Program to provide career coaching, occupational training and job placement services for at least 1,000 low-income job seekers residing in areas of concentrated poverty. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for biennium beginning July 1, 2021. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.

Establishes Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs State Fire Marshal, State Forestry Department and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and recovery from wildfires. Requires State Fire Marshal to reserve and transfer to revolving fund certain percentage of moneys from Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund for grants to rural fire protection districts. Requires insurer each year to remit to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services surcharge for each policy of insurance that is property insurance. Permits insurer each year to recoup from insureds amount insurer remitted to director. Requires director to deposit proceeds of surcharge into Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Imposes filing fee for property taxes and requires remission of proceeds of fee, less specified percentage for administrative costs, to Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Sunsets Act on July 1, 2031.

Establishes personal income tax credit of $1,000 per qualifying child. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2028. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs Department of State Lands ] Oregon Business Development Department to study impact of laws related to wetlands on economic development and to provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority. Provides that Governor may activate authority when declaring emergency. Directs authority, when activated, to coordinate initial crisis services, coordinate recovery and mitigation efforts and coordinate provision of emergency aid to local governments or private entities.

Requires city with population of 200,000 or fewer to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2023. Requires city to review local standards at least every 10 years. Exempts from state preemption of rent control cities with populations of 200,000 or fewer that adopt local standards to promote housing stability and cities with populations greater than 200,000. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department. Requires department to submit report on findings by January 1, 2023.

Provides that contracting agency may not accept bid or proposal for public contract from covered entity for which ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that covered entity pays employees of covered entity exceeds 100 to 1. Requires contracting agency to disclose prohibition in advertisement or solicitation for public contract and provide in public contract that failure to comply subjects covered entity to termination of public contract and debarment or disqualification, as appropriate. Becomes operative on January 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department. Requires department to submit report on findings by January 1, 2023.

Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Community College Support Fund for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development for purpose of addressing inequities in educational attainment among systemically marginalized communities and to support innovation and best practices. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.