Sen. Jeff Golden

Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services, in consultation with State Forestry Department, Oregon Forest and Industries Council, Oregon Small Woodlands Association, Oregon State University , and ] Oregon Prescribed Fire Council and representative of insurance industry , to study liability for prescribed fires. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on results of study no later than July 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates. Authorizes public utilities to enter into agreements to provide financial assistance for organizations to represent in regulatory proceedings before commission interests of low-income residential customers and residential customers that are members of environmental justice communities. Provides that total aggregate financial assistance available to all such organizations may not exceed $500,000 annually. Requires commission to establish process for evaluating and approving agreements. Requires commission to report by September 15, 2025, to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to energy on implementation and impacts of new authorization to provide such financial assistance. Authorizes certain measures to address mitigation of energy burdens. Requires costs of measures to be collected in rates of electric company through charges paid by all retail electricity consumers.

Expands allowable uses for Housing and Community Services Department's manufactured dwelling programs to support dwellings and parks destroyed by natural disaster. Allows department to contract for administration of manufactured dwelling replacement loans. Removes cap on loans per individual. Adjusts cap on department's manufactured dwelling decommissioning and disposal grants. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Prohibits homeowners associations from requiring application of pesticide on owner's property except as necessary for ecological or public health . Requires association to notify owners , upon the owner's request, prior to pesticide application on owners' property.

Directs Department of Corrections and Oregon Health Authority to establish healthcare navigator pilot program within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Directs department, in consultation with authority, to develop health assessment for persons entering facility. Establishes standards for provision of health care to persons in custody. Requires that person in custody be offered copy of medical records upon release. ] Establishes healthcare navigator positions for employment within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Specifies duties of healthcare navigators. Provides that healthcare navigator salaries are paid by Oregon Health Authority. Appropriates moneys to authority to fund positions. ] Establishes Task Force on Corrections Medical Care. Directs task force to conduct review of Department of Corrections medical care grievance process, medical care standards of care and adoption of electronic health records system. Directs task force to submit report and recommendation for prioritized list of medical care to Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. Directs Department of Corrections to regularly report to Legislative Assembly concerning health data ] medical care and health outcomes of persons in custody and results of survey of pilot program participants ]. Sunsets program ] task force and reporting requirement on June 30, 2023. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.

Before its sale to third party, requires owner of residential dwelling facility to give tenants 20 days to form tenants committee and to give any tenants committee right of first refusal. Makes other procedural amendments to conducting facility sales. ] Amends requirements and deadlines for sales of manufactured dwelling facilities. Amends statutory damages owed for violations by sellers and requires plaintiffs to share damages with Manufactured Dwelling Parks Account.

Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Directs Department of Transportation to create emergency contact information form and make form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in individual's motor vehicle record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed. Directs department to conduct outreach program to educate applicants and general public about opportunity to include emergency contact information in motor vehicle record. Sunsets outreach program January 2, 2025.

Limits local government's restrictions on conversions of certain properties into emergency shelters or affordable housing. Declares emergency, effective on passage.