Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to consider the cumulative economic impact of an electric or natural gas company's proposed residential rate or schedule of rates. Requires an electric or natural gas company to file an analysis of the cumulative economic impact on the company's residential rate payers if the company's return on equity is subject to review and modification. Authorizes the commission to adjust rates to mitigate an increase in residential customer rates if the increase would affect the ability of customers to maintain adequate utility services. Prohibits any increase in residential rates from taking effect from November 1 to March 31. Directs the commission to require an electric or natural gas company to establish a multiyear rate plan for certain rate revisions. Prohibits, until January 2, 2027, or the date the commission adopts rules regarding multiyear rate plans, certain rate increases from taking effect within 18 months from the date of the last rate increase. Authorizes a public utility, upon approval by the commission, to issue bonds and securitize debt for costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred by the public utility associated with certain capital investments, retiring a generation asset, environmental remediation or an event in which the availability of electricity or natural gas within a regional energy market is significantly constrained. Requires an electric or natural gas company to provide and make public a visual representation of cost categories included in the company's residential customer rates and a report on any rate adjustments the company expects within the next 12 months. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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.
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.
Maddy summarySB 1168 prohibits home health care and home hospice care entities from paying staff based on per-visit compensation. This directly affects home health and hospice providers, who will no longer be able to structure staff pay around individual patient visits. The bill clarifies definitions of "home health services" and "home hospice services" under Oregon law to align with this compensation change. It takes effect January 1, 2026, after being signed by the governor and becoming Chapter 546 of the 2025 Laws.
[ Reduces ] Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility [ to match changes to the consumer price index. Limits to 10 percent the maximum increase in rent paid by the purchaser of a dwelling or home in a facility. ] beginning in 2026. Creates an exception for certain infrastructure upgrades approved by a vote of the tenants. Prohibits a landlord from requiring aesthetic improvements or internal inspections as conditions of sale of a dwelling or home in a facility. [ Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study water, sewer and septic systems of facilities and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026. ] Declares an emergency, effective September 1, 2025.
] Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault. Prospectively eliminates the statute of limitations for civil actions based on sexual assault or child sexual abuse. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits employers from entering into agreements that shorten the statute of limitations with respect to violations over which the Bureau of Labor and Industries has enforcement authority. Designates a violation of the prohibition as an unlawful employment practice. Establishes time limits for when the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries must issue a notice of rights to complainants. Clarifies that the bureau will not issue a notice for matters that have been resolved by a settlement agreement. Establishes time limits for filing a civil action after issuance of the notice. Makes conforming amendments. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
] [ Clarifies the definitions of "contract teacher" and "probationary teacher." Requires a probationary teacher who has completed a three-year probationary period at one school district to complete a maximum one-year probationary period upon assuming employment with a new school district. Establishes a mandatory 60-day improvement period for those probationary teachers if performance deficiencies arise. ] Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.
Provides additional data to be included by institutions of higher education in an annual report regarding allegations of sexual misconduct and violence on the campus of the institution. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
