Transfers from Department of Human Services to Oregon Community Foundation responsibility for administering Fairview housing trust. Transfers unexpended balance of moneys in Community Housing Trust Account to Oregon Community Foundation for purpose of providing housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities or providing financial assistance to housing or care providers that provide community housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities . Requires Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities to appoint advisory committee to advise and consult with Oregon Community Foundation in making expenditures of moneys transferred to foundation from Community Housing Trust Account. Requires Oregon Community Foundation to annually report to department balance remaining of moneys transferred and uses for expenditures of funds. Requires foundation to repay to department moneys used for unauthorized purpose.
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Requires public universities, community colleges and community college districts ] certain institutions of higher education to require contractors to employ apprentices and to establish and execute plan for outreach, recruitment and retention of women and minority individuals for certain work relating to improvements to real property. Provides that requirements do not apply if institution of higher education determines that compliance with requirements would cause unreasonable expense or delay or reduce pool of bidders to fewer than three.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to design, implement and maintain voluntary statewide program to provide nurse home visiting services to families with infants up to six months of age. Specifies desired outcomes and services. Requires authority to adopt rules specifying criteria for coverage of newborn nurse home visiting service coverage by health benefit plans. Requires health benefit plans to cover nurse home visiting services to enrollees with newborns without cost-sharing. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes goals that promote zero-emission vehicle use and requires entities of executive department to promote zero-emission vehicle use. Requires State Department of Energy to assess market for zero-emission vehicles and ] biennially report to Governor and Legislative Assembly certain information related to zero-emission vehicles. Establishes certain requirements for purchases and leases of zero-emission vehicles for state fleet purchases or leases. Authorizes public utilities to submit public benefit proposals to recover in rates no more than $500,000 per year from customers of public utilities costs of installing electric vehicle charging stations. ] Requires agencies owning motor vehicles to provide certain additional information in annual report to Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Energy. Authorizes school districts to use public purpose charge moneys for school district fleet audits, for purchase or lease of zero-emission vehicles and for purchase or installation of electric vehicle charging stations. .
Proclaims state policy to provide aids, benefits and services to persons with disabilities who are parents or guardians. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Modifies ] Reduces length of time of parental desertion or abandonment of child resulting in forfeiture of parent's intestate share of child's estate and ] or parent's interest in property transferred from child to parent by transfer on death deed in parental forfeiture action to one year if person who would benefit from forfeiture is child or sibling of deceased child or three years for all others . Modifies burden of proof in parental forfeiture action to preponderance of evidence if person who would benefit from forfeiture is child or sibling of deceased child . Extends deadline for commencing parental forfeiture action to no later than one year after decedent's date of death if notice to interested persons not published. Prohibits parent or stepparent who abandoned child from receiving damages for wrongful death of child. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires correctional facilities to provide tampons, sanitary pads, postpartum pads and panty liners to certain incarcerated persons at no cost.
Prohibits campaign moneys and public moneys from being used to make payments in connection with nondisclosure agreement relating to workplace harassment. Declares void and unenforceable any nondisclosure agreement entered into with use of prohibited moneys. Establishes civil penalty for using prohibited moneys to make payments in connection with nondisclosure agreement of up to two times amount of penalty provision for violating nondisclosure agreement that is contained within nondisclosure agreement. Prohibits public official ] holder of public office or candidate from using moneys received from third parties to make payments in connection with nondisclosure agreement relating to harassment in workplace, if alleged harassment occurred when public official ] holder of public office or candidate was acting as public official ] holder of public office or candidate. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that brownfield granted property tax incentive benefit under chapter 96, Oregon Laws 2016, is eligible for ] may be granted any other special assessment, exemption or partial exemption granted under other law ] for which such property is eligible. Provides that total amount of all property tax benefits granted to brownfield under any law may not reduce property tax liability below zero for any property tax year. Provides that eligible costs of brownfield for purposes of determining property tax incentive benefit under chapter 96, Oregon Laws 2016, shall be reduced by any special assessment, exemption or partial exemption granted to brownfield under any law other than chapter 96, Oregon Laws 2016. ] Requires jurisdiction granting brownfield property tax incentive benefit to specify how jurisdiction intends to apply multiple property tax benefits and to notify county assessor of intended application. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies processes relating to reporting, investigating and appealing findings related to sexual harassment in schools. Takes effect July 1, 2020.