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. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Creates limited wholesale license to be issued to eligible applicant to store, transport, sell at wholesale and distribute certain cider and malt beverages. Allows holder of brewery-public house and brewery license to sell at wholesale and distribute malt beverages. Allows holder of winery license to sell at wholesale and distribute cider. Allows wholesale licensee to accept payment for purchases of malt beverages, cider or wine from retail licensee on delivery date and requires wholesale licensee to allow retail licensee to pay on industry standard credit terms. Requires Oregon Liquor Control Commission to study wholesale distribution agreements and submit findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to business. Takes effect on 91st day following 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.
Directs division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services that serves as department's office of economic analysis to estimate savings to General Fund in biennium beginning July 1, 2023, resulting from certain prison closures. Directs Legislative Assembly to appropriate such savings for certain purposes in biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires local governments to allow certain residential development within one-eighth mile of fixed guideway corridor stops. Establishes deadlines to incorporate requirements into land use plans.
Directs Public Utility Commission, in coordination with State Department of Energy, to study and develop proposal for modifying Oregon laws as necessary to require 100 percent of electricity sold to retail electricity consumers to be electricity generated utilizing renewable and carbon-free energy. Directs commission to provide results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Temporarily disallows certain tax expenditures. Requires personal income taxpayers and corporate excise and income taxpayers to add back amounts excluded or deducted on federal return. Disallows elective lower rate on pass-through income. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2024. Temporarily disallows certain property tax exemptions. Applies to property tax years beginning after July 1, 2021, and before July 1, 2023. Advances sunset for property tax exemption for long term rural enterprise zone. Applies to property tax years beginning before July 1, 2021. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies. Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination by major political parties for federal and state partisan offices.
Removes certain nonviolent crimes from list of crimes that automatically make person ineligible to hold license or registration issued by Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if person has been convicted of crime. Directs commission to establish standards for determining when to issue license or registration to person who has been convicted of those crimes. ] Allows commission to refuse to issue license or registration to person who has been convicted of those crimes.
