Prohibits energy utility from disconnecting service to residential customer for failure to pay amount owed for energy services. ] Prohibits energy utility from seeking to collect from residential customer who spends six percent or more of household income on energy costs. ] Requires energy utility to accept reasonable partial payment or payment plan for overdue amounts. Requires any partial payment or payment plan to be less than six percent of customer's household monthly income. ] Permits energy utility to recover costs for overdue amounts in rates to all residential service customers. ] Requires energy utility to provide Housing and Community Services Department with contact information for residential customers who have higher than average energy usage. Requires department to contact customers to help customers access programs and resources that may assist with reducing energy usage. ] Extends sunset for requirement that Public Utility Commission provide, through rates charged to all customers of electric companies, collection of moneys for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance. Removes requirement that assistance be only for customers who lost income due to circumstances arising from disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Reduces amount to be collected per calendar year from $10 million to $5 million.
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Requires Oregon Health Authority to ensure that communities in this state have access to safe drinking water. ] Directs authority ] Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish grant program to provide grants to water suppliers to protect, restore or enhance sources of drinking water. Requires board to submit report on performance of grant program to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to water no later than April 1 of each even-numbered year. Establishes Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study ] Department of Human Services to provide financial support to nonprofits to provide affordable housing for college students. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to affordable housing not later than September 15, 2024. ] Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for such purposes. Sunsets January 2, 2026.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to local governments ] for regional housing coordinators ] coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing . Requires department to provide grants to Association of Oregon Counties and League of Oregon Cities for specific purposes relating to planning for housing. Requires department to analyze local governments' costs in planning for housing. Appropriates moneys to department to award grants and conduct analysis. Sunsets January 2, 2034. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Amends reporting requirements for real estate transaction sampling of domestic wells to require labs conducting tests to submit results to Department of Environmental Quality. Requires department to make results of tests available to public and provide results of tests to Oregon Health Authority. Authorizes authority to analyze results of tests and conduct ground water contaminant education and outreach. Becomes operative July 1, 2024.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes School Safety Construction Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund. Appropriates moneys in fund continuously to Department of Education for purposes of making grants to school districts , to education service districts, to Oregon School for the Deaf and to public school districts that apply on behalf of charter school chartered within school district for construction projects that address urgent school safety needs. Specifies priorities for grant moneys. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Oregon Health Authority ] Department of Human Services to develop and implement grant program to support ] provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Establishes Task Force on the Economic Competitiveness of Oregon Agriculture. ] Instructs task force ] Requires State Department of Agriculture to submit report on economic competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural sector to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than September 15, 2024. Sunsets task force ] requirement on December 31, 2024. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board, to adopt rules for board to evaluate and recommend adding disease to or removing disease from newborn bloodspot screening panel or taking no action on disease. Requires board to evaluate and make recommendations pursuant to rules, including rules for public request process. Requires board to meet at least four times per calendar year and to submit biennial report to Legislative Assembly. Shortens term of office of board member to two years. Limits reappointment. Modifies board membership and requirements. Subjects board meetings to public meetings law. Waives fees for parents or guardians who pay out of pocket for newborn bloodspot screening services. ] Waives newborn bloodspot screening fees for parents or guardians who pay out of pocket birthing fees as defined by rule by authority or who are indigent or otherwise unable to pay newborn bloodspot screening fees. Requires authority to consider, and to greatest extent practicable implement, screening for disease no later than 18 months after federal committee recommends adding disease to federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel. Directs authority to complete pilot study to demonstrate standards, criteria and processes for determining whether to add disease to newborn bloodspot screening panel and to report to Legislative Assembly on findings and recommendations for improvements. Declares emergency, effective on passage.