Prohibits sale of new clothes washers unless washers are equipped with built-in or in-line microfiber filtration system. Prohibition becomes operative January 1, 2026.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Library for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, for purpose of hiring consultant to assist libraries apply for federal moneys for purpose of providing broadband access. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Library for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, for deposit in Connecting Oregon Libraries Fund for purpose of matching federal moneys to provide broadband access.
Authorizes State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish by rule requirements or prohibitions concerning angling, taking, hunting, trapping or possessing of wildlife defined as predatory animal.
Requires Oregon Facilities Authority to provide financing for infrastructure and predevelopment costs for moderate income housing. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to the authority for such purposes. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Requires State Forestry Department to study community-based programs for reducing wildfire risk. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2024. ] Establishes policy of State of Oregon related to reducing number and intensity of wildfires. Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish grant and incentive program for reducing wildfire risk. Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish neighborhood protection cooperative program. Instructs State Fire Marshal to expand online presence of Department of State Fire Marshal in specified manner. Instructs State Fire Marshal to develop 20-year strategic plan that prioritizes fire resiliency and building fire-adapted communities. Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish interagency data collection system related to reducing wildfire risk. Instructs State Fire Marshal to biannually report on policy, grant and incentive program, neighborhood protection cooperative program and expanded online presence. Appropriates moneys to State Fire Marshal for deposit in Community Risk Reduction Fund for purposes related to grant and incentive program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study how to build resiliency and efficiency into buildings. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment not later than September 15, 2024. ] Requires State Department of Energy in consultation with Department of Consumer and Business Services to specify energy performance standard for covered commercial buildings that seeks to maximize reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, includes energy use intensity targets that apply to specific types of buildings and that provides for methods to achieve conditional compliance. Specifies requirements for State Department of Energy and discretion that department may exercise in specifying energy performance standard and developing energy use intensity targets. Requires department to notify eligible building owners concerning energy performance standard and energy use intensity targets and allows department to approve eligible building owner's use of conditional compliance method in lieu of full compliance. Permits municipality to adopt energy performance standard and greenhouse gas emission reduction standards that are more stringent or have broader application than department's standard or targets. Requires eligible building owners to report to department concerning compliance with energy performance standard. Specifies required contents of reports. Requires department to provide support program with information, training, technical assistance and telephone and electronic mail support for meeting energy use intensity targets. Specifies dates by which eligible building owners must comply with energy performance standard. Permits department to impose civil penalty for failure to comply. Directs department to establish requirement and standard under which specified eligible building owners must provide data that would allow department to set benchmark for energy use in and greenhouse gas emissions from certain covered commercial buildings. Requires department to establish program to pay incentives to eligible building owners to encourage compliance with energy performance standard. Permits department to contract with another person to administer payments. Specifies qualifications for and rates of payment. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Semiconductor and Advanced Manufacturing Talent Grant program. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer program and provide grants to public universities and community colleges to support proposed programs or curricula that will effectively impart to students skills and proficiencies that are demonstrably in demand in semiconductor and advanced manufacturing industries. Appropriates moneys to grant program. Sunsets program on January 2, 2026. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study how to build efficiency into buildings. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment not later than September 15, 2024. ] Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to exercise any and all authority and discretion department has under applicable law to facilitate greenhouse gas emission reductions consistent with statewide goals, to take such actions as are necessary to accelerate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, including rulemaking, and to consider and integrate into department's planning, budgeting, investment and policy-making decisions prevention or reduction of impacts from climate change. Requires department to set goals for improved energy efficiency in buildings, investigate options for and feasibility of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that result from manufacturing, transporting, installing, disposing of and recovering materials used in building construction, investigate benefits of updating building ventilation standards and take implementing actions. Requires department to report to Legislative Assembly concerning findings, recommendations, evaluations of progress and other matters. Specifies required contents of and deadlines for reports. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study how to build resiliency into buildings. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment not later than September 15, 2024. ] Requires designated state agency in carrying out program related to promotion, implementation, incentivization or regulation of energy efficiency in buildings to align, improve and prioritize certain actions to aid in achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Requires State Department of Energy to report to Legislative Assembly concerning rate of heat pump technology adoption among residents of this state and to estimate date by which state will achieve specified goals for adoption of heat pump technology. Requires department to collaborate with other designated state agencies in reducing financial and nonfinancial barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience by providing technical assistance, education and training. Establishes Energy Efficient Technologies Information and Training Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department for purposes of Act. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Public Utility Commission to establish eligibility cap for nameplate capacity for small power production facility that produces energy using solar or wind energy to qualify as qualifying facility ] standard avoided costs rates and contracts for purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying facilities at no less than 10 megawatts. Requires commission to permit energy storage system to be paired with small power production ] qualifying facility. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
