Requires an individual who uses the title "doctor" in connection with a health care profession to designate on specified material, including social media and professional name badges, the health care profession in which the individual earned a doctoral degree.
] 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.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks.
] Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets. [ Prohibits a person from offering or selling an admission ticket to a retail purchaser unless the person discloses the initial price and total price of the admission ticket before requiring the purchaser to provide payment information. Requires the seller to make additional disclosures. ] Prohibits a person from willfully using, without prior authorization, an Internet domain name or subdomain name that names a venue, names an entertainment event or a person that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event or is substantially similar to the name of the venue, of the entertainment event or the person or entity that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event. Prohibits a person from publishing or causing another person to publish a website that has or uses text, images, graphics, a design or other material that is so substantially similar to the intellectual property of an operator or venue as to mislead a reasonable visitor to the website into believing that the website is affiliated with the operator or venue . [ Prohibits a reseller from selling or offering for resale an admission ticket unless the reseller has actual or constructive possession of the admission ticket and makes certain disclosures before completing the sale. ] Punishes violations of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Requires health benefit plans to cover autologous breast reconstruction procedures and related services with specific requirements related to out-of-pocket costs, cost-sharing, utilization review, reimbursement rates and network adequacy.
] 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.
] [ Creates a process that exempts certain health care providers from prior authorization requirements under certain circumstances. ] Requires additional reporting about prior authorization to the Department of Consumer and Business Services from insurers offering a health benefit plan and tells the department to make [ certain ] this data publicly available. [ Applies these requirements to commercial health insurance, the Public Employees' Benefit Board, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and coordinated care organizations. ] [ Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Creates restrictions for prior authorization requirements during certain surgical procedures for insurers offering a health benefit plan. Requires certain insurers offering a health benefit plan to implement a prior authorization programming interface by January 1, 2027.
] [ 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.
Maddy summaryHB 3643 designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day and declares an emergency effective upon passage. The bill directly affects Oregon youth and communities by establishing an annual day to focus attention on youth suicide prevention, citing that 109 Oregon youth died by suicide in 2022 and Oregon ranked 12th nationally in youth suicide rates. Its key mechanism is the annual observance date, supported by an emergency declaration to prioritize action on this issue. The bill became law on June 16, 2025, after passage by the legislature and governor's signature. It does not create new programs or funding but aims to raise awareness of a critical public health concern.
Allows a physician or physician associate to use telemedicine to practice medicine or provide health care services under specified circumstances to a patient located out of state. Clarifies that the physician or physician associate is subject to the laws regulating the practice of medicine in the jurisdiction where the patient is located.
