Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study ways to expedite the eligibility determination process for long term care services and supports. Directs the department and the authority to study needed changes to the regulatory framework for certain facilities that serve residents with complex medical or behavioral health conditions. Directs the department and the authority to study options to expand medical respite programs and to partner with coordinated care organizations and insurers that offer Medicare Advantage Plans for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid to promote timely and appropriate hospital discharges. Directs the authority to establish a post-hospital extended care benefit to cover a medical assistance recipient's stay in a skilled nursing facility for up to 100 days and seek any necessary federal approval. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a standardized method to be used by school districts, education service districts and the department to electronically create, collect, use, maintain, disclose, transfer and access student data. Prescribes requirements of the method. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Increases the salaries of state court judges. Provides that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has authority to take actions and establish rules that promote judicial accountability and fair and accessible justice services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Amends portions of an Act that restricts management services organizations from owning a majority interest in professional medical entities and that prohibits noncompetition agreements, nondisparagement agreements and nondisclosure agreements between medical licensees and other persons. Makes a prohibition on the use of noncompetition agreements retroactive. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
[ Places a surcharge on sales of beverage containers for purposes of wildfire prevention and response. ] [ Directs insurance retaliatory tax revenue to wildfire prevention and response. ] [ Transfers one-half percent of General Fund appropriations per biennium to funds for wildfire prevention and response. ] [ Transfers 50 percent of the amount held in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund to funds for wildfire prevention and response. ] Imposes a tax on the distribution of oral nicotine products. Directs the revenues to purposes related to wildfire. Directs a portion of the interest from the Rainy Day Fund to purposes related to wildfire. Removes the end date for completion of certain wildfire risk reduction projects. Makes certain changes related to the forest products harvest tax, forest protection districts, minimum assessments and surcharges, the Emergency Fire Cost Committee, forestland acreage assessments, zones for fire protection in certain areas and rural fire protection districts. [ Authorizes certain transfers from the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund. Requires the Legislative Assembly to make moneys available to the State Forestry Department and the Department of the State Fire Marshal to repay loans from the State Treasurer for wildfire suppression costs. ] Directs the State Treasurer to transfer moneys between agencies when requested for certain wildfire costs. Appropriates moneys to a borrowing agency if the agency has insufficient available moneys to repay transferred amounts. Creates an offset against fire protection costs for certain forestland. Removes transfer and reporting requirements relating to the State Forestry Department Cash Flow Repayment Fund. Provides for a grant program for retrofitting of dwellings for wildfire resilience. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Limits for the six-year period beginning July 1, 2025, payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by various state agencies for capital construction. Limits for the six-year period beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by specified state agencies from federal funds for specified capital construction projects. Limits for the six-year period beginning July 1, 2025, payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for expenditures of bond proceeds for the benefit of public universities and community colleges. Sets expiration date on project approvals and expenditure limitations. Modifies previously established expiration dates. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Reduces the statute of limitations for construction defect actions [ for units in ] by a planned community or condominium. Imposes notice requirements before homeowners or condominium association owners may bring or join a construction defect action. Requires the declarant and board of directors of a condominium association to conduct moisture inspections. Creates special procedural requirements for giving notice to contractors prior to filing construction defect claims if the action is brought by a homeowners association or association of unit owners. Extends the time for a sender of a secondary notice of defect to bring an action against the recipient of the secondary notice of defect.
] [ Requires ] Authorizes the Department of Human Services, under specified circumstances, to revoke , suspend or impose conditions on the license, certificate or endorsement of a provider of services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. [ Authorizes the department, under specified circumstances, to revoke, suspend or impose conditions on the license, certificate or endorsement of a provider. ].
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works. Specifies examples of such bespoke work. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
HB 3544 establishes standardized procedures for challenging proposed water use decisions in Oregon. It requires anyone objecting to a water permit or decision to submit a written protest within 45 days, including specific details about how the decision would harm their interests and legal arguments. The bill defines what makes a protest valid (e.g., clear issues, sufficient detail) and outlines when hearings must occur or can be skipped, such as if all parties agree or a protest is withdrawn. These changes directly affect individuals, businesses, and organizations filing objections to water permits and the Water Resources Department managing these cases.
Prescribes professional development and coaching requirements under the Early Literacy Success School Grant program. Expands the allowed uses of grants related to curricula. Modifies the reporting date related to Early Literacy Success School Grants and the contents of the reports. Expands allowed interventions for the Department of Education to take when a school district or public charter school does not meet the goals established in an early literacy success plan.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to the Center for Public Service at Portland State University to conduct, in consultation with Oregon State University, a study examining the labor standards and working experiences of farmworkers in this state. Requires the center to integrate the study findings with the study conducted by the Legislative Policy and Research Director. Directs the commission to submit reports on the findings of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to agriculture, business and labor and natural resources by certain dates. Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study relating to the labor standards in the agricultural industry and the rights and protections afforded to farmworkers in this state. Requires the director to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to agriculture, business and labor and natural resources no later than September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
