Establishes certain requirements for member of board of directors of agricultural cooperative.
Directs Employment Department to develop Agricultural Worker Overtime Relief Payment Program to provide eligible agricultural workers with payments for hours worked beyond 40 hours but not exceeding 48 hours per workweek. Requires employers to pay overtime to agricultural workers who work in excess of 48 hours per workweek. For agricultural workers who earn agricultural salary and for agricultural workers who perform work during peak labor period, sets maximum allowable hour threshold before employer is required to pay overtime to 55 hours per workweek. Repeals provisions related to refundable income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to employer for excess amount of wages paid as overtime pay for agricultural workers. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Imposes cap on percentage increase that minimum wage rate may be adjusted for inflation.
Prohibits Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing toll on Interstate 205 or Interstate 5. Provides exception for tolls on Interstate 5 bridges that cross Columbia River. Directs Department of Transportation to conduct analysis of alternative funding sources for specified bridge projects. Sunsets report January 2, 2024. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Urges Congress to propose for state ratification amendment to United States Constitution to require federal government to operate under balanced budget wherein federal government expenditures do not exceed federal government revenues.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for distribution to Port of Hood River for construction of Hood River-White Salmon Interstate Bridge. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Allows operator offering or providing facilities for inherently dangerous sporting activity to require patron to provide anticipatory release from certain claims for liability, including claims arising out of negligence of operator and claims for unreasonable conditions created by operator. Provides that release is not unconscionable. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Appropriates $50 million to State Forestry Department to fund increased forest thinning operations in specified wildfire-prone counties. Directs department to allocate $5 million to fund forest thinning operations on public lands located in each wildfire-prone county. Requires department to confer with county governing body of each county to determine which specific forest thinning operations to fund. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when defendant causes permanent physical injury to victim during commission of crime. Provides that if defendant is convicted of aggravated offense, court shall sentence defendant to 300 months' imprisonment. Authorizes court to impose lesser sentence in certain circumstances.
Provides that maximum loading weight of motorboat means factory-specified dry gross weight of motorboat. Increases maximum loading weight of boat person may own to obtain towed watersports endorsement. Modifies definition of "Newberg Pool Congested Zone." Declares emergency, effective on passage.
