Allows certain local governments to amend urban growth boundaries to include lands to be used for needed housing. Requires consent of city and affected landowners. Provides that inclusion results in city annexation of land.
Requires that all executive clemency actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify crime of felon in possession of a firearm as crime category 8.
Authorizes adult foster home provider to provide residential care for up to six residents who are not related to provider.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers. Requires district school boards to include in budget of school district line item for school resource officers.
Directs school district board to adopt prevention curriculum that addresses child sex trafficking. ] Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine how to integrate instruction on identification and prevention of sex trafficking into academic content standards. Directs department to submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2024. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Authorizes formation of children's service districts. Authorizes children's service 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 of age. Provides that, if action is filed by taxpayer for real property located within children's service district asserting valid claim 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, children's service district shall discontinue project and shall use revenue for project that does not constitute educational services.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to engage independent auditor to analyze expenditures from Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund for mental health purposes. Requires department to report to Legislative Assembly after completion of audit.
Appropriates $50 million to State Forestry Department to fund increased forest thinning operations in specified wildfire-prone counties. Directs department to allocate $5 million to fund forest thinning operations on public lands located in each wildfire-prone county. Requires department to confer with county governing body of each county to determine which specific forest thinning operations to fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits denial of medical assistance on basis that individual under 19 years of age is in detention pending adjudication. Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval for federal financial participation in costs of providing medical assistance to such individuals. Requires Oregon Health Authority to conduct study, in consultation and collaboration with directors of county juvenile departments, agencies working with juvenile justice and youth health care systems, directors of juvenile detention facilities, Department of Human Services and Oregon Youth Authority, of needs of and barriers to youth in detention in accessing medical assistance and health care services. Requires Oregon Health Authority to report on study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary no later than September 15, 2025.
