Establishes COFA Food Assistance Program to provide nutrition assistance to COFA citizens who would qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits but for their immigration status and who have incomes at or below federal poverty guidelines.
Allows certain local governments to amend urban growth boundaries to include lands to be used for needed housing. Requires consent of city and affected landowners. Provides that inclusion results in city annexation of land.
Requires that all executive clemency actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify crime of felon in possession of a firearm as crime category 8.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers. Requires district school boards to include in budget of school district line item for school resource officers.
Directs school district board to adopt prevention curriculum that addresses child sex trafficking. ] Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine how to integrate instruction on identification and prevention of sex trafficking into academic content standards. Directs department to submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2024. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
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.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered. Directs department to pay for costs of assistance rendered to officers and agencies of state government out of funds appropriated to department for that purpose. Becomes operative on July 1, 2025. Provides that department may not enter into or renew collective bargaining agreement that permits job classification or evaluation on basis of hours billed by attorney. Allows department to track billable hours only for purposes of reimbursement.
Expands attorney fee award for prevailing applicants to include any person developing needed housing whose approval is appealed to Land Use Board of Appeals.
Provides that lack of verbal or physical resistance does not by itself constitute lack of consent or inability to consent in determination of whether sexual act is consensual.
