Directs the Public Employees Retirement System to include information about the use of overtime hours in calculating the final average salary of a member of the system who is retiring. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers. Requires the authority to establish by rule a newborn screening protocol for cytomegalovirus. Eliminates the requirement if cytomegalovirus is added to the newborn bloodspot screening panel. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Makes permanent the plan of assistance for low-income customers for telecommunication services. Renames the plan of assistance the Oregon Lifeline plan. Adds to the assistance provided to low-income customers a one-time personal computing device benefit for the purchase of an Internet-enabled computer and ancillary devices. Repeals the requirement but still permits the Public Utility Commission to use part of the surcharge assessed on retail telecommunications subscribers for marketing and outreach activities to increase participation in the plan of assistance. Repeals the Oregon Telephone Assistance Program Advisory Committee. Directs the commission to adopt rules to carry out the provisions of the Act not later than December 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Judicial Department for certain biennial expenses. Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts and reimbursements from federal service agreements, but excluding lottery funds and other federal funds, collected or received by the department. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for the Oregon Law Commission, the Council on Court Procedures, conciliation and mediation services in circuit courts, law libraries and the Legal Services Program. Declares an emergency, effective [ July 1, 2025 ] on passage .
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department. Instructs and authorizes the department to take certain actions related to rangeland protection associations. Establishes the Rangeland Protection Association Fund. Appropriates moneys to the fund and establishes an expenditure limitation for the fund. Makes certain changes related to the authority of the State Forester to assist rangeland protection associations. Authorizes the State Forester and forest protection associations to acquire or dispose of goods, services or equipment for the prevention, mitigation or suppression of fire on forestland. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
] [ Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the effects of House Bill 2697 (2023). Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. ] [ Sunsets January 2, 2027. ] Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopted, the applicable statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for the unit. Allows the Oregon Health Authority to consolidate multiple complaints related to hospital staffing ratios that contain the same allegations or allegations based on the same set of facts into a single investigation or enforcement action. Directs the authority to give priority to the investigation and disposition of complaints related to hospital staffing ratios that contain allegations that occur on or after June 1, 2025. Creates a violation for failure to adopt a hospital-wide nurse staffing plan, comply with a nurse staffing plan that has been adopted for a unit, or comply with a statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for a unit if a nurse staffing plan has not been adopted for a unit. Prohibits the imposition of a civil penalty for a violation for failure to comply with a statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for a unit if the hospital took certain actions in efforts to comply. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies the procedure for the expunction of certain juvenile records. Directs the juvenile department to initiate the statutory expunction process for juvenile records relating to acts that if committed by adults would constitute misdemeanors involving violence. Creates exceptions. Modifies venue for juvenile court expunction proceedings. Expands expunction eligibility for records relating to felonies. Modifies requirement for notifying victim in juvenile proceedings of expunction process. Increases the appropriation from the General Fund to the Oregon Youth Authority to support expunction processing. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Increases from $20 million to $40 million the minimum amount to be collected from the customers of electric companies for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance. Directs the Public Utility Commission to reassess every two years the community level of need for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance. Allows the commission to adjust the amount to be collected based on its findings and changes to electricity rates. Requires the commission to report to the Legislative Assembly if the commission increases the amount to be collected by more than 2.5 percent. Increases from $500 to $1,000 per month per customer site the maximum amount that a customer may be required to pay for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program. Makes the program permanent. Modifies eligibility requirements for the program to include all sentences for which a defendant is eligible for a downward dispositional departure. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
] [ Prohibits cities or counties from conditioning a permit or zoning change on the development of an improvement project that has already been financed, planned or approved. ] Prohibits a municipality from requiring in, or as a condition of obtaining, a construction permit to renovate or otherwise alter an existing building that the construction permit holder install a frontage improvement if the alteration does not increase the building's square footage or footprint, if the cost of the alteration does not exceed a specified amount and if existing or proposed uses for the building do not change the occupancy classification group that applied to the building. Specifies exemptions from the prohibition. Requires a municipality and the Department of Transportation to determine if a design, engineering or construction plan exists for any frontage improvements that the municipality or the department requires along a state highway as a condition of obtaining a construction permit or final action on a permit or zone change. Applies to [ cities or counties ] municipalities with a population of 15,000 or greater. Beginning on January 1, 2031, applies to all [ cities and counties ] municipalities .
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a small business preferences program for state procurement. Specifies minimum requirements for the program and powers that the department has to implement the program. Requires the department to report to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly on the implementation of the program. Requires the department to plan for and implement a response to the recommendations of the state's 2023 disparity study with respect to public procurement. Sunsets the program on December 31, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies the requirements for the Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program. Extends sunsets for the program and the prohibition on local government regulation of long term care facilities and residential care facilities. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
