Sen. Courtney Neron Misslin

Directs Department of Transportation to establish program for awarding grants to providers of traffic safety education courses to fund Spanish language traffic safety education courses. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, to award grants. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land. Extends sunset of Oregon Industrial Site Readiness Program. Establishes Industrial Site Loan Fund in State Treasury. Appropriates moneys for deposit in Oregon Industrial Site Readiness Program ] fund for purpose of funding financial assistance to industrial land projects . Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Permits education provider to operate video recording device for purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights. Permits law enforcement agency to issue citation for failure to stop for bus safety lights based on report submitted by education provider that includes recording of violation. Provides for distribution of amounts collected upon conviction for offense of failure to stop for bus safety lights. Establishes School Bus Stop Arm Camera Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Education for purpose of providing stop arm cameras to education providers.

Requires State Treasurer to exit from certain carbon-intensive investments, subject to fiduciary duties. Requires State Treasurer to develop plan to protect state investments from risks related to climate change. Requires State Treasurer to issue periodic reports on actual and planned progress towards completion of duties imposed under Act.

Creates credit against income taxes for selling publicly supported housing to retain as affordable housing. Applies to sales of housing completed in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2030. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for those purposes. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Requires governing board at each public university to include graduate student as voting member if university has more than 400 graduate students or if graduate students comprise more than 15 percent of total student body.

Requires school districts to encourage community engagement in budget process and to ensure that training is received on developing and understanding school district budget. Directs Department of Education to develop best practices for developing school district budgets and to make best practices available to school districts.

Provides that Legislative Assembly finds and declares that home rule cities and counties have constitutional authority to prohibit or limit use of fossil fuels in new buildings or installation of fossil fuel infrastructure. Permits cities and counties, whether home rule or not, to prohibit or limit use of fossil fuels in new buildings or installation of fossil fuel infrastructure. Declares emergency, effective on passage.