Creates limited landscape construction professional license. Specifies scope of work that holder of limited license may perform.
Condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and reaffirms right of Israelis and Palestinians to live safely and free from fear and violence. Rejects actions by BDS movement that undermine efforts to achieve negotiated two-state solution that upholds rights of Israelis and Palestinians to national self-determination.
Requires Department of Education to develop model plan for conducting tests for certain environmental hazards in facilities owned or leased by school districts or public charter schools where students or staff are present on regular basis and for reporting test results. Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules regarding testing for certain environmental hazards by school districts and public charter schools. Requires school districts and public charter schools to test for certain environmental hazards in facilities owned or leased by districts or schools where students or staff are present on regular basis. Requires school districts and public charter schools to report results of facility testing and to provide annual statement regarding facility testing conducted under plan. Establishes Healthy School Facilities Fund. Appropriates moneys from fund to Department of Education for purpose of financial assistance to school districts and public charter schools in adoption, administration and enforcement of plans regarding testing for certain environmental hazards in facilities where students or staff are present on regular basis. Authorizes department to transfer to Healthy School Facility Fund up to $2 million during 2019-2021 biennium from State School Fund moneys available to Office of School Facilities for school facility grants. Expands types of assessment qualifying for Office of School Facilities hardship grants to include school district assessment for environmental hazards under plan.
Allows operators of motorcycles or mopeds to travel between adjacent lanes of traffic traveling in same direction under certain circumstances.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Access to Arts Education and specifies composition of task force membership. Specifies duties of task force. Directs task force to submit report to Legislative Assembly no later than January 7, 2019. Sunsets task force on June 30, 2019. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Authorizes formation of children's special districts. Authorizes children's special districts to levy property taxes to fund programs that offer children's services. Defines "children's services" as services that support children's total health and well-being provided outside of school hours to individuals not more than 18 years old. Provides that children's special district shall discontinue project if court holds that revenue funding project is subject to compression under $5 per $1,000 of real market value cap for purposes of Ballot Measure 5 (1990) as revenue funding project constituting educational services and shall use revenue for project that does not constitute educational services.
Directs Department of Education to identify and adopt procedures for reporting and collecting data related to acts of harassment, intimidation or bullying and acts of cyberbullying.
For rules implementing certain federal environmental laws that Environmental Quality Commission or Department of Environmental Quality has been delegated authority to administer, prohibits commission from amending or revising rules to be less stringent than certain federal standards and requirements. Requires natural resource agencies that have been delegated authority to administer certain federal environmental laws to, no later than September 15, 2018, report to interim legislative committees on proposed federal rulemaking that may result in federal standards and requirements that are less stringent than certain baseline standards, and to include certain information in report. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt carbon pollution market by rule. Requires commission to consult with certain interested persons and be advised by advisory committee in adopting rules. Establishes Greenhouse Gas Cap and Investment Program Oversight Committee. Provides for minimum requirements of carbon pollution market. Declares legislative purposes of carbon pollution market. Establishes Climate Investments Account within State Highway Fund. Requires that certain auction proceeds be deposited in account for purpose of funding programs consistent with legislative purposes of carbon pollution market. Establishes Oregon Climate Investments Fund. Requires that certain auction proceeds be deposited in fund, to be distributed through Climate Investments Grant Program adopted by Environmental Quality Commission by rule. Creates Climate Investments in Impacted Communities Advisory Committee. Requires committee to advise on distributions of certain auction proceeds. Establishes Just Transition Fund. Requires that certain auction proceeds be deposited in fund, to be distributed through Just Transition Grant Program adopted by Oregon Business Development Department by rule. Makes all provisions related to carbon pollution market and distribution of auction proceeds operative January 1, 2021. Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission, Public Utility Commission, Department of Transportation and Oregon Business Development Department to adopt rules prior to operative date. Repeals greenhouse gas emissions goals and requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule statewide greenhouse gas emissions goal for 2025, and limits for years 2035 and 2050. Defines "greenhouse gas" for purposes of air pollution laws. Requires registration and reporting by certain sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Requires certain sources to pay annual fee to Department of Environmental Quality to pay costs of department and Environmental Quality Commission in developing and preparing for implementation of carbon pollution market required by Act. Make provisions related to greenhouse gas definition, emissions limits and registration and reporting operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
