Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Limits the kind of port districts that are required to be involved in strategic investment program agreements with respect to eligible projects that are located in the port district's territory. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund. Provides that a waterway access permit is required while operating a nonmotorized boat of any length. Creates exceptions.
] Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award [ grants ] loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing [ and a grant to assist nonprofits receiving grants or loans under this Act. Sunsets January 2, 2028 ]. Requires the department to adopt initial rules by June 1, 2026, and to combine other existing predevelopment loan programs. [ Establishes the Affordable Housing Predevelopment Loan Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department to award loans for predevelopment costs of affordable housing. ] [ Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for grants and loans. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
[ Instructs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt rules that prohibit ] Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters. [ Creates an ] Provides exceptions, including an exception for employees of federal and state land management agencies.
[ 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.
Maddy summaryHB 2356 automatically adds land to a metropolitan service district when a city within the district's urban growth boundary annexes that land under Oregon law. This applies only to territories already within the district's urban growth boundary, eliminating the need for additional approval steps. The bill affects cities in the Portland metropolitan area (Metro) that annex land within designated growth boundaries. It streamlines boundary updates for these annexations, making the process automatic once the city completes its annexation under existing laws.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities. Requires any tariff schedule adopted for the class to allocate the costs of serving large energy use facilities to the facilities and mitigate the risks to other classes of retail electricity consumers. Defines "large energy use facility." Directs the commission to require an electric company to use a contract when providing electricity service to a large energy use facility. Requires the contract to meet certain requirements and conditions. Directs the commission to report each even-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy on trends in load requirements and other implications from large energy use facilities. Sunsets January 2, 2035. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs. Directs the department to seek any federal funding available for attendant care services no later than January 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
