Adjourns organizational session of Eighty-second Legislative Assembly. Provides that Eighty-second Legislative Assembly shall convene in regular session on January 17, 2023.
Establishes deadlines for completion of legislative measures for 2023 regular session of Eighty-second Legislative Assembly.
Requires Department of Transportation to establish program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that assesses greenhouse gas emissions attributable to certain covered materials department uses in construction and maintenance activities for state's transportation system, conducts life cycle assessments for selected set of construction and maintenance activities and devises strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Specifies required scope and content of program. Requires department, in making procurements in connection with program, to require contractors to submit environmental product declarations before installing covered materials. Specifies exceptions. Prohibits department from using environmental product declarations to rank or score bid or proposal before January 1, 2027. Requires department to establish grant program to assist bidders and proposers in preparing or submitting environmental product declarations. Requires department to establish technical advisory committee and specifies matters on which committee will advise department. Requires department to report annually to Oregon Transportation Commission and interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to transportation concerning implementation of program. Establishes Medium and Heavy-Duty Electrification Charging Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund, and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Environmental Quality for grant program to support zero emission vehicle charging and fueling infrastructure. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Secretary of State to establish digital voting system to allow specified electors to digitally request, receive, mark, verify and cast ballot. Specifies electors who may use digital voting system and elections in which system may be used. Establishes required components and security procedures of system. Becomes operative on November 6, 2024.
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, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Construction Contractors Board to adopt rules that require persons that lease construction vehicles in this state to maintain construction vehicles in condition that allows for safe and reliable operation of construction vehicles, to keep certain logs, records and documents and to provide or offer to provide training in safe and reliable operation of construction vehicles. ] Requires board to inspect, at least once every two years, persons that lease construction vehicles in this state and assess level of compliance with board's rules. Permits board to charge costs of inspection to person that is subjected to inspection. ] Requires contracting agency, as part of contracting agency's determination of whether bidder for public improvement contract is responsible, to check board's assessment of person that supplies construction vehicles for public improvement contract and require bidder to obtain construction vehicles only from person that achieves passing grade from board. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage. ] Requires person that rents utility vehicle to contracting agency to provide records that describe in detail results of most recent inspection that person performed or had performed on utility vehicle's traction, structure, power train, control components and related parts and equipment in compliance with specified rules, regulations or standards. Provides that person must also provide instructions about how to comply with recommendations from utility vehicle's manufacturer for operating and maintaining utility vehicle, records of all incidents in which use of utility vehicle resulted in injuries or deaths because of equipment failure and affidavit in which person attests to compliance with applicable safety standards and to performing or having performed regular inspections of utility vehicle. Permits contracting agency to delay paying consideration due under agreement to rent utility vehicle until person replaces or repairs utility vehicle that does not meet applicable standards and to seek offset of or reimbursement for labor costs that contracting agency incurs as result of delays to work from utility vehicle that does not meet applicable standards. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses for purposes of required medical loss ratio ] in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires each county clerk to file annual report with Secretary of State identifying each voter who clerk moved to inactive status during previous calendar year and specifying reason for moving voter to inactive status. ] Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time. Reactivates any voter whose registration is currently inactive due to voter not voting or updating voter registration. Requires county clerk, if voter moved to inactive status due to name change or signature on return identification envelope not matching signature in voter registration record, to mail voter notification of reason for inactive status and information on how voter can reactivate voter registration between 60 and 70 days before date of both next ] each primary election and next ] general election. Requires county clerk to mail all currently inactive voters for whom county clerk has valid address voter notification of inactive status between 60 and 70 days before date of both 2022 primary election and 2022 general election. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households. Conditions tax exemption on property being subject to covenant to maintain affordability for not less than 60 years. Provides that default six-year sunset of tax expenditures does not apply to exemption. Requires initial claim to be filed with Department of Revenue and annual claims with county assessor thereafter. Restricts conditions that local governments may place on development of affordable housing provided by religious nonprofit corporations and expands zoning where such housing must be allowed. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority. Requires law enforcement agency to explain to individual committed or detained by law enforcement agency individual's right to refuse to disclose nationality, citizenship or immigration status and potential immigration consequences of refusal to disclose. Prohibits use of public resources to assist federal immigration enforcement. Requires public body that receives communication or request for assistance from federal immigration authority to report request or communication to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. Requires commission to continually publish reports of communications and requests received by public bodies. Requires Department of Justice to establish mechanism to receive reports of certain violations. Prohibits public body, law enforcement agency or officer from entering into specified agreements related to federal immigration enforcement. Allows any person to bring action to enjoin law enforcement agency or public body from providing certain information to federal immigration authority, using agency resources to enforce immigration laws or failing to comply with other requirements. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
