Requires ] Establishes programs within Housing and Community Services Department to provide loans to one or more nonprofit corporations to develop programs that support manufactured dwelling park preservation and affordability for tenants. Allows department to forgive loans in amount not to exceed programs' losses. Requires nonprofit corporations to provide semiannual reports to department and department to provide biennial report to Legislative Assembly. Requires Office of Manufactured Dwelling Park Community Relations to disseminate notices of manufactured park closures or sales. Establishes programs within department to provide supplementary loans to individuals for new energy efficient manufactured dwellings and to provide grants for decommissioning and disposing of manufactured dwellings. Establishes advisory committee on manufactured housing within department. Requires committee to conduct annual evaluations of goals. Establishes Manufactured Home Preservation Fund for grant and loan programs and advisory committees. Establishes program within department to provide grants to nonprofit organization to develop infrastructure for new manufactured dwelling park in Springfield, Oregon. Appropriates moneys for deposit in Manufactured Dwelling Parks Account for grants. Requires department to submit report to Legislative Assembly on grants by December 15, 2020. Sunsets program June 30, 2023. Renames Mobile Home Parks Purchase Account to Manufactured Dwelling Parks Account. Expands allowable uses of account to support infrastructure for newly purchased manufactured dwelling parks, to support displaced individuals from closed parks and to supplement manufactured dwelling park grants to nonprofit organization. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for loans ] purposes of Act . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Requires financial estimate committee to file statement "MEASURE SPENDS MONEY WITHOUT IDENTIFYING A FUNDING SOURCE" with Secretary of State upon finding that ballot measure with no dedicated funding source will have financial effect on public expenditures in excess of $100,000. Requires statement to be printed in voters' pamphlet.
Expands types of entities that may receive grant from Farm-to-School Grant Program to purchase food produced or processed in state or to identify sources of foods or to process foods. Expands purposes for which grant may be used. Creates grant to encourage and sustain successful efforts related to program. Expands types of entities that may receive grant for food-based, agriculture-based or garden-based educational activities. Directs Department of Education to evaluate effectiveness of program and to ensure that technical assistance, training and resources are provided to certain entities. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility. Authorizes Higher Education Coordinating Commission to waive requirement that person enrolled in program must enroll in sufficient number of credit hours to be considered at least half-time student, under specified circumstances.
Allows option to obtain title, but not registration, from Department of Transportation for recreational vehicle qualifying as park model recreational vehicle and meeting other criteria. Provides that recreational vehicle having title issued by Department of Transportation does not qualify as structure. Requires owner to surrender Department of Transportation title for recreational vehicle if converting recreational vehicle to use as structure. Makes recreational vehicle converted to use as structure subject to state building code. Requires seller of new recreational vehicle to provide purchaser with written information listing specified living area systems. Requires that information state for each listed system whether items or components comprising system are covered by warranty and, if so, extent and length of warranty. Removes recreational vehicle construction from regulation by Department of Consumer and Business Services. Changes definition of "recreational vehicle."
Requires property owner subject to affordability restriction to provide more notice to Housing and Community Services Department and local governments before restrictions expire. Requires property owners to extend right of first refusal to department or local government for up to 24 months following expiration of affordability restriction. Establishes Affordable Housing Preservation Fund. ] Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for purposes of affordable housing preservation. ].
Provides for cities and counties to certify annually that city or county has not adopted ordinance prohibiting establishment requiring marijuana-related business license and is therefore eligible for distribution of Oregon Marijuana Account moneys. Requires certification with Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Directs Department of Revenue to collect moneys from city or county subject to order to return moneys from ineligible transfer. Applies to transfers of moneys in calendar quarters beginning on or after January 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Department of Revenue to collect, on local rather than regional level, local transient lodging taxes that department collects under agreements with units of local government. Requires department to fund actual start-up costs for collection on local level by withholding, in amount not to exceed $900,000, state transient lodging tax moneys that would otherwise be transferred to Oregon Tourism Commission. Requires department to reimburse commission, with interest, from reimbursement charges that would be withheld from state and local transient lodging tax revenues by transient lodging intermediaries but for disallowance of such charges under Act. Requires department to notify Legislative Counsel after department has fully reimbursed commission. Provides for refunds by department to transient lodging intermediaries of amounts received in excess of $900,000 that would otherwise have been withheld by intermediaries as collection reimbursement charge. Requires department, for purpose of enforcing state transient lodging tax, to purchase access to raw metadata scraped from Internet relating to sale, service or furnishing of transient lodging. Requires department to implement enhanced data-scraping pilot program with two to four units of local government for which department enforces local transient lodging tax. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows State Department of Fish and Wildlife to refuse or condition disclosure of information relevant to department ability to manage or protect described fish or wildlife species or individual members or populations of species. Creates exceptions ] exception to refusal authority . Exempts information from disclosure as public record. Makes disclosure criteria and public record law exemption retroactive to September 1, 2018. Validates department nondisclosures of information since September 1, 2018. Sunsets January 2, 2024. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes city or county to adopt property tax exemption for portion ] in amount not to exceed $300,000 of assessed value of principal place of residence used by homeowner to rent space in residence through public or nonprofit home share program to individuals seeking such space. Provides that exemption shall be granted as 100 percent exemption for five consecutive years unless city or county adopts other terms. ] Provides that city or county ] adopting jurisdiction must require means testing of home share seekers. Requires ] home share rental agreement to offer space at rent affordable to home share seekers with income at or below level determined by city or county ] 60 percent of area median income, must prohibit exemption for home share agreements among family members and must specify period for which exemption may be granted . Provides that exemption applies only to tax levy of city or county enacting exemption law and other taxing districts agreeing to grant exemption, ] ordinance or resolution granting exemption may not take effect unless rates of taxation of adopting jurisdiction and taxing districts that agree to grant exemption equal 51 percent or more of total combined rate of taxation. Requires exemption to be granted to all residences on same terms in effect on date application is submitted. ] Prohibits property receiving any other property tax benefit, other than homestead property tax deferral, from being granted home share exemption. Allows city or county ] adopting jurisdiction to amend or terminate ] exemption, subject to approval process of taxing districts described above, or repeal exemption, but provides that residences granted exemption continue to receive exemption under terms in effect at time exemption was first granted. Sets cap of 500 homes that may be granted exemption statewide in any property tax year. Sunsets authority of city or county to adopt exemption or deferral on June 30 ] that becomes effective after January 31 , 2027. Repeals exemption program on January 2, 2029. Provides that residences granted exemption before repeal date continue to receive exemption under terms in effect at time granted ] if term extends past repeal date . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.