Requires statement of economic interest to include certain information about sources of income for business in which public official or candidate, or member of household of public official or candidate, is officer, holds directorship or does business under if source of income has legislative or administrative interest and 10 percent or more of total gross annual income of business comes from that source of income.
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Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Prohibits sale of products that make deceptive or misleading claims about recyclability. Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules for products that make claims about recyclability. Permits Department of Environmental Quality or any other person to bring action enforcing prohibition on sale of deceptive or misleading products. Imposes civil penalty of up to $25,000 per day of violation of prohibition. Applies to products sold on or after January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day after adjournment sine die.
Specifies contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to qualified contracts with institutions of higher education and school districts. Requires contractors and subcontractors on qualified contracts to employ apprentices for 15 percent of work hours that workers in apprenticeable occupations perform under qualified contracts, to provide workers with health insurance and retirement benefits and to make good-faith efforts to encourage minority individuals, women, economically disadvantaged individuals, socially disadvantaged individuals and service-disabled veterans to become apprentices with contractor or subcontractor with aspirational goal of employing minority individuals, women, economically disadvantaged individuals, socially disadvantaged individuals and service-disabled veterans to perform 15 percent of work hours performed by apprentices in apprenticeable occupations under qualified contracts. Specifies actions that constitute good-faith efforts. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations. Limits matching funds. Allows resident taxpayers to designate contribution to Small Donor Elections Fund on income tax return form. Directs most election law penalties to Small Donor Elections Fund. Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees. ] Requires political committee to identify as caucus, measure, multicandidate, political party, recall or small donor political committee. Prohibits person from controlling more than one of each committee. ] Authorizes Secretary of State and Attorney General to require return of contribution excess of limits and impose civil penalty up to 150 percent of total amount of contribution. ] Repeals Ballot Measure 47 (2006), currently held in abeyance, which establishes limits on political campaign contributions and independent expenditures on candidate races and establishes certain campaign finance disclosure requirements. ] Becomes operative November 9, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether individual is employee or independent contractor and to cooperate in adopting rules to facilitate consistency in application of definition of independent contractor and provisions of Act. Creates rebuttable presumption that individual who performs services for remuneration for hiring entity is employee when employment status of individual is at issue.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Office to study issues related to funding construction of wildlife corridor road crossings and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022. Specifies necessary contents of report. Sunsets January 2, 2023.
Imposes severance tax on all timber harvested from public and private forestland. Provides lower rates for older stands of trees. Redirects revenues from certain forest products harvest taxes. Repeals exclusion for first 25,000 feet, board measure. Repeals exemptions for environmentally sensitive logging equipment and forest roads. Repeals special assessment for homesites on forestland. Increases minimum acreage of forestland eligible for small tract forestland status. Phases out small tract forestland with tax increases over three years. Increases penalties for noncompliance with Oregon Forest Practices Act. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Imposes severance tax on owner of timber at time of harvest at five percent of value of timber. Directs revenue from severance tax to be transferred to Emergency Wildfire Fund. Repeals forest products harvest taxes and funds certain associated expenditures with severance tax revenues. Abolishes Emergency Fire Cost Committee. Abolishes Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.