Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to conduct study regarding cost savings and expense reductions that may result to small businesses from cooperative resource sharing. Requires department to submit report regarding study to interim legislative committees no later than November 1, 2022. Sunsets January 1, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Modifies provisions relating to retirement benefits for public employee who is designated representative of exclusive representative and takes release time.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to develop and ] administer grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets January 2, 2041.
Requires certain government officials and management employees to complete education on incident command, National Incident Management System and emergency response.
Imposes requirements on appointing authority that employs person in state service ] state agency that employs person at rate higher than rate for executives under compensation plan for state employees.
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. ] Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Service Member and Family Support Program in biennium beginning July 1, 2021. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.
Directs municipal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over population of at least 350,000 to staff patrol vehicles with minimum of two officers. Specifies exception.
Requires State Forestry Department to develop and maintain comprehensive statewide map of wildfire risk, including boundaries of wildland-urban interface within state. Requires State Fire Marshal to establish minimum defensible space requirements for wildfire risk reduction in areas defined as wildland-urban interface by selecting standards from International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. Permits local government to establish own minimum defensible space requirements also taken from International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. Establishes Wildfire Community Preparedness Fund and appropriates moneys to State Fire Marshal for purpose of giving assistance to local governments in community risk reduction program. Establishes Task Force on Building Codes in Wildland-Urban Interface with purpose of identifying gaps in and needed updates to state building code to account for wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Recognizes and honors service members of Oregon National Guard.
