Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce. Directs the commission to award grants to local workforce development boards to administer the program. [ Requires the commission to disburse funds appropriated for the purpose of administering the program to local workforce development boards within a certain timeline. ] Requires the commission and local workforce development boards to consult with certain entities to establish a process and criteria for distributing moneys to certain subgrantees and entities that participate in certain workforce development activities. Requires the commission and the boards to establish the process and criteria within a certain timeline. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process. Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish standards to guide the department in the exercise of the department's authority. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent. Applies to estates of decedents who die on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
] [ Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study needed investments in shipyards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. ] [ Sunsets on January 2, 2027. ] Authorizes the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority to approve a loan to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay for shipyard repairs. Allocates moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund for the purpose of making the loan.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to local governments and other entities for purposes related to public safety. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
] Requires the [ Housing Accountability and Production Office ] Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide [ grants ] a grant to a nonprofit by January 1, 2026, to provide up to five regional subgrants for regional housing coordination [ by January 1, 2026 ]. Requires the [ office ] department to report on the [ grants ] grant to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to housing on or before September 15, 2027. Appropriates moneys to the department [ of Land Conservation and Development ] out of the General Fund for [ grants ] the grant . Sunsets January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map. Makes changes related to defensible space. Makes changes related to the wildland-urban interface. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules to require the purchase of new zero-emission school buses in certain areas. Requires the purchase of new zero-emission school buses if the price is equal to a comparable school bus that is not zero-emission. Directs the department to provide technical and financial assistance to school bus fleet owners. Establishes the Zero-Emission School Bus Assistance Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code to approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit for middle housing or conventional single-family residential housing in a residential subdivision with more than six lots not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits a complete application. Requires any other agency or jurisdiction that must review an application for a building permit to complete the review within 10 business days after receipt or the portion of the application that is subject to the review is approved. Declares that an application for a building permit is approved if the department, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official fails to deny or act upon the application within the allowable period. Requires prompt issuance of the building permit in such circumstances. Makes the department, municipality, building official or other agency or official that fails to promptly issue the building permit liable to the applicant for the fees the applicant paid and the costs the applicant incurred in preparing the application.