Rep. Dan Rayfield

Authorizes Health Licensing Office to issue sign language interpreter license to qualified applicant. Defines "sign language interpreter." Prohibits unlicensed provision of signed language interpretation services. Creates exceptions to prohibition. Allows office to impose discipline for certain violations. Directs office to provide administrative and regulatory oversight to sign language interpreter program. Establishes State Board of Sign Language Interpreters within office. Imposes civil penalty for violation of licensure requirements. Becomes operative January 1, 2024. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges. Specifies membership and duties. Requires task force to provide reports to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health and human services no later than December 15, 2023, and November 15, 2024. Sunsets January 2, 2025. Requires Oregon Health Authority to extend existing contracts with coordinated care organizations to December 31, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Requires authority to provide grants to support clinical education at hospitals and health care facilities, grants to employers participating in labor-management training trust to expand on-the-job training, apprenticeship opportunities and other programs that support development of health care professionals and grants to Oregon Center for Nursing to work with Oregon's public nursing education programs to develop programs to recruit and retain nurse educators at public institutions of higher education. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience. Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to facilitate greenhouse gas emission reductions. Requires State Department of Energy to specify energy performance standard for covered commercial buildings. Permits department to impose civil penalty for failure to comply. Requires department to establish incentive program to encourage compliance. Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop methodology and work plan for state agencies to conduct assessment of energy use in, and greenhouse gas emissions from, state-owned buildings. Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to oversee specified capital projects and to develop and implement guidelines for sustainable design. Authorizes state agencies to enter into energy projects and to retain net savings. Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program. Directs State Department of Agriculture to certify green communities nurseries. Directs State Forestry Department to acquire and maintain urban tree canopy assessment tool and to develop and implement program related to loss of tree canopy. Directs Oregon State University to research development of fuel pathways for low carbon fuels derived from woody biomass residues. Authorizes State Forester to establish forestry renewable woody biomass conversion program. Directs Department of Environmental Quality to establish rebate program for purchase or lease of qualifying medium or heavy duty zero-emission vehicles. Directs Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules for siting photovoltaic solar power generation facilities. Changes name of "Oregon Global Warming Commission" to "Oregon Climate Action Commission." Modifies membership and duties of commission. Directs Department of Environmental Quality to evaluate opportunities to reduce Oregon's consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions. Directs State Department of Energy and Oregon Climate Action Commission to prepare inventory, baseline and metrics for net carbon sequestration and storage in natural and working lands and to study workforce training programs needed to support adoption of natural climate solutions. Extends rebate for construction or installation of solar electric system or paired solar and storage system. Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission to establish by rule fee to be paid by community climate investment entities. Directs Oregon Health Authority to identify, monitor and test water sources susceptible to harmful algal blooms. Directs Department of Environmental Quality to develop strategy to respond to harmful algal blooms. Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

During state of emergency due to homelessness, allows Housing and Community Services Department to expand ] Expands landlord guarantee program to include landlords providing housing to tenants receiving other ] who have received rental assistance under specified rehousing initiative . Sunsets January 2, 2026. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Establishes refundable income and corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities and sets increased maximum credit amount. Limits use of credit to semiconductor or other advanced manufacturing industries. Requires taxpayer seeking credit to obtain certification from Oregon Business Development Department. Requires taxpayer seeking credit for tax year beginning in calendar year 2024 to register with department. Directs Legislative Revenue Officer to report to Legislative Assembly on information submitted with registrations. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2030. Extends sunset date of enterprise zone program . and modifies related provisions. Provides limitation on number of years for which property in enterprise zone may be exempt from property taxes imposed by school districts. ] Requires zone sponsor to post on sponsor's website terms of agreements with business firms seeking exemption. Requires department to provide technical assistance upon request to zone sponsors entering into such agreements. Adds long term rural enterprise zone program to those for which report must be posted on Oregon transparency website. Requires department to study transparency of enterprise zone programs and submit report to interim legislative committees related to revenue. Requires zone sponsor entering into agreement with business firm to notify adjacent local governments of possible increase in use of infrastructure. Bars enterprise zone participation by business firms significantly engaged in operating retail fulfillment centers. Coordinates statutes governing termination of enterprise zones. Creates sunset date for strategic investment program and modifies related provisions. Disallows agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2030. ] Requires business firms in strategic investment program to hold job fair. Adds ports to parties required to enter into agreement for designation of strategic investment zone. Sunsets county authority to designate strategic investment zones. Directs department to make negotiation training materials available to parties to agreement required for designation of zone. Raises maximum amount of community services support fee and indexes amount to increase, if any, in consumer price index. Requires approval of agreement by all affected special districts that provide emergency service. Increases minimum total cost of eligible project under strategic investment program and indexes cost to increase, if any, in consumer price index. Decreases maximum amount of personal income tax revenue that may be distributed per year to any county under strategic investment program. ] Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study strategic investment program and submit report to interim legislative committees related to revenue. Extends sunset date for gain share program. Applies to property tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2024. ] Provides for school support fee in lieu of property taxes exempted in enterprise zones in amount of forgone taxes multiplied by rate negotiated by zone sponsor and affected school districts. Requires addition to federal taxable income of amounts excluded as gain attributable to investment in federal qualified opportunity zone. Allows subtraction in later tax year if gain is temporarily deferred at federal level. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and to amounts initially invested in non-Oregon opportunity zones on or after January 1, 2024. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries. Allows local governments to extend decision-making period for application to develop residential structures within urban growth boundary or to reconsider land use decision for development of residential structures. Makes permanent requirements that local governments allow siting of certain emergency shelters, conditioned upon latest estimates of percentage of individuals experiencing homelessness. Awards attorney fees for certain appeals of emergency shelter application. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to update Oregon Structural Specialty Code to allow additional single-exit residential occupancies. Exempts certain affordable housing from Oregon Planned Community Act. Restricts local governments' ability to regulate condominium form of ownership. Requires cities or counties to accept funding letters to affordable housing developers as sufficient assurances needed to approve subdivision plat. Requires local governments to allow certain single room occupancies in residential zones. Amends definition of "needed housing" to include single room occupancies. Requires more cities to allow duplexes on certain lands zoned to allow single-family dwellings. Updates deadlines for compliance by affected cities and appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants for support. Provides process and form by which associations may amend declarations and bylaws of planned community or condominium to remove unlawfully discriminatory provisions. Extends until December 31, 2024, deadline by which associations must review declarations and bylaws. Allows Public Utility Commission to allow public utility to sell or convey real property for affordable housing. Requires Department of Human Services to provide financial support to nonprofits to provide affordable housing for low-income college students. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for regional housing coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing. Sunsets January 2, 2034. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to make grant to Network for Oregon Affordable Housing to provide low-interest loans to purchasers of homes with limited equity. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires department to report on use of loan fund to interim committee of Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2025, and September 15, 2027. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for housing. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Amends allowable purposes of Emergency Housing Account to include account moneys to be used for grants to assist companion animals of individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to offices of President of United States, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General. Authorizes cities, counties, metropolitan service districts, school districts and local government and local service districts to elect to use ranked choice voting to nominate or elect candidates for relevant offices. Requires Secretary of State to establish program to educate voters about how ranked choice voting will be conducted in elections held in state. Prohibits nominating election for Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries. Requires election for commissioner to be held at primary election, where election is conducted using ranked choice voting. Requires Secretary of State and county clerks to jointly submit reports to Legislative Assembly setting forth analysis of whether existing laws are inconsistent with effective and efficient implementation of ranked choice voting and detailing, to degree practicable, each expenditure secretary and county clerks must make to successfully implement ranked choice voting. Becomes operative on December 10, 2026 ] January 1, 2028 . Refers Act to people for their approval or rejection at next regular general election.

Establishes limitations and deadlines for legislative measures for 2024 regular session of Eighty-second Legislative Assembly. Provides that certain labor negotiations are not legislative deliberations and are to be conducted under executive session.

Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees. Requires political committee to identify as caucus, measure, multicandidate, political party, recall or small donor political committee. Prohibits person from controlling more than one of each committee. Authorizes Secretary of State and Attorney General to require return of contribution excess of limits and impose civil penalty up to 100 percent of total amount of contribution. Repeals Ballot Measure 47 (2006), currently held in abeyance, which establishes limits on political campaign contributions and independent expenditures on candidate races and establishes certain campaign finance disclosure requirements. Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations. Limits matching funds. Allows resident taxpayers to designate contribution to Small Donor Elections Fund on income tax return form. Directs most election law penalties to Small Donor Elections Fund. Revises specified threshold amounts that require covered organizations that make political contributions to file with Secretary of State donor identification list that identifies donors that made donations above $10,000 during election cycle to covered organization. Becomes operative on November 4, 2026.

Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine adequacy of education in public schools. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2024.