Creates program for gathering and reviewing data and research regarding ground water in Umatilla Basin and creating implementation plan to improve ground water quality and obtain full or partial removal of ground water management area designation from Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area. Requires that program include department recommendation of scientifically based rationale for removing designation in specific areas of Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area if practicable. Requires that program include appointment of, and support for, task force. Sunsets program January 2, 2030. Appropriates moneys to State Department of Agriculture for biennium ending June 30, 2021, to carry out program activities. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Urges Congress to enact legislation that addresses medical care and disability compensation for veterans exposed to burn pits while serving overseas.
Designates Oregon Institute of Technology as Oregon's Polytechnic University.
Provides that definition of "abuse" does not include refusal to vaccinate child or decision to delay vaccination of child.
Provides for additional exemption against Oregon estate tax. Phases out availability of exemption based on size of estate. Applies to estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2021. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Provides state-funded unemployment insurance benefits to individuals who are unemployed due to bankruptcy filed in calendar year 2019 by agricultural cooperative doing business in Oregon. Caps extended bankruptcy benefits at 26 times weekly benefit amount of individual's most recent unemployment benefit claim. Provides for repayment of overpaid benefits. Provides that employer shall be charged for extended bankruptcy benefits in manner provided for charging employers for regular benefits. Provides for retroactive payment of extended bankruptcy benefits to individuals unemployed due to employer's bankruptcy at time of passage of Act. Appropriates moneys to Employment Department for purposes of paying benefits and costs incurred by department to administer benefit program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Authority as public corporation. Prescribes duties of authority. Modifies duties of Willamette Falls Locks Commission. Sunsets commission on June 30, 2021. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Agricultural Cooperative Member Low-Interest Loan Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to State Department of Agriculture ] Oregon Business Development Department for carrying out loan program. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for deposit in Agricultural Cooperative Member Low-Interest Loan Fund for biennium ending June 30, 2021. ] Limits payment from lottery moneys allocated from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to department for deposit in Agricultural Cooperative Member Low-Interest Loan Fund for biennium ending June 30, 2021. Authorizes State Department of Agriculture ] department to make loans from fund to farmers that were members of agricultural cooperative on date that cooperative initiated bankruptcy proceedings. Specifies terms of loans. Requires State Department of Agriculture to assist with loan application evaluation if requested by Oregon Business Development Department. Authorizes State Department of Agriculture ] Oregon Business Development Department to delegate application processing and loan servicing to lending institutions. Makes loan program operative January 1, 2021. Sunsets loan program and abolishes Agricultural Cooperative Member Low-Interest Loan Fund January 2, 2040. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires professional licensing boards to consider homeschool diploma to be equivalent to high school diploma for purposes of licensure, certification or other authorization needed to provide occupational or professional service. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency. Prohibits abortion of unborn child with probable post-fertilization age of 20 or more weeks, except in case of medical emergency. Requires physician who performs or induces, or attempts to perform or induce, abortion to file report, within 30 days, with Oregon Health Authority. Requires authority to publish annually statistics relating to abortion.