Establishes Ocean Beach Fund. Directs amount of transient lodging tax revenues from state recreation area lodgings along ocean shore received by State Parks and Recreation Department to fund. Directs department to spend moneys from fund for expenses of managing state recreation areas along ocean shore. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for support of Reedsport Public Library. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Declares state policy on ocean acidification and hypoxia. Establishes Oregon Coordinating Council on Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia. Establishes duties of coordinating council. Requires coordinating council to submit biennial report to Legislative Assembly and Ocean Policy Advisory Council by September 15 of each even-numbered year on coordinating council's activities and recommendations.
Provides that public body has no responsibility to post warnings related to dangers of ocean. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Modifies requirements for coordinated care organizations. Specifies grounds for renewal of coordinated care organization contracts in 2019 and 2024.
Modifies provision allowing waiver of qualification for registration as professional engineer if applicant has professional engineering experience in another jurisdiction.
Provides that large tract land in western Oregon may not be considered forestland unless subject to sustained yield management plan and all trees are harvested annually from one to two percent of nonriparian and nonroad land base. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Ocean Science Trust for deposit in Oregon Ocean Science Fund. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Requires district elections authority to make determination of whether each candidate elected to district office is qualified to hold that office. If elections authority determines candidate is not qualified to hold that office, requires elections authority to apply to circuit court for order confirming elections authority's determination.
Establishes legislative task force to study and make recommendations on creation of one or more national monuments in Oregon. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.