Establishes Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities. Directs task force to investigate issues related to alleviating shortage of skilled and experienced nurses and medical technicians in or near Douglas County. Sunsets December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study and develop recommendations on how to ensure students have greatest practicable opportunity to transfer credits earned at community colleges to baccalaureate degrees awarded at public universities. Requires commission to submit report detailing recommendations by December 31, 2017. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish Affordable Homeownership Grant Program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations with affordable homeownership programs to provide opportunities for homeownership to persons in low income households. Delineates program requirements. Requires nonprofit organization grant recipients to create revolving fund to purchase or leverage mortgage loans or purchase, construct or rehabilitate homes and manufactured homes for sale to persons in low income households that are first-time homeowners. Establishes Affordable Homeownership Grant Program Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to department. Appropriates moneys to department to make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to participate in program.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer program to issue grants to address tourism-related coastal infrastructure needs. Requires department to select grant recipients in consultation with nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing community needs through collaborative governance. Requires department to submit quarterly reports to Legislative Assembly on progress of projects that receive grant funding. Allocates $300 million of lottery revenue to department. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Legislative Policy and Research Director to provide small business impact statement if statement is requested in writing by two members of Legislative Assembly, each member from different major political party. Provides that statement describe likely effects of proposed legislative measure on small businesses that employ fewer than 50 employees. Requires director to prepare and deliver statements to requesters within 14 calendar days of request and to thereafter monitor and report effects of subsequent amendments to measure.
Imposes requirements upon mental health treatment providers and programs to ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate care for individuals who are deaf , deaf-blind or hard of hearing. Authorizes civil penalty for violation of requirements. Prohibits and designates as unlawful practice denial of access to culturally and linguistically affirmative mental health services based on residual hearing ability or previous experience in alternative mode of communication. Requires Oregon Health Authority to appoint Coordinator of Mental Health Services for Deaf , Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Individuals and specifies duties.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on responding to officer-involved domestic violence incidents. Defines "officer-involved domestic violence." Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to adopt rules related to officer-involved domestic violence. Establishes Task Force on Officer-Involved Domestic Violence. Directs task force to develop model policy on officer-involved domestic violence. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Modifies laws related to real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies. Specifies that certain documents prepared by or for internal use of financial institutions are not real estate appraisal activity requiring preparer of document to carry real estate appraiser certification, license or registration.
Requires Legislative Assembly to provide translator services free of charge, in order to facilitate witness participation in hearings or informal meetings with one or more members of Legislative Assembly, or as required by federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Requires that written request be made to Legislative Administrator by specified date before translator services will be provided.
Revives tax credit for loss of limb function.
