Rep. Pam Marsh

Transfers moneys from the Senior Property Tax Deferral Revolving Account to the Healthy Homes Repair Fund for the purpose of supporting seniors and individuals with disabilities and to the Department of Revenue to increase public knowledge of property tax deferral programs.

Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing. Requires the department to hire a contractor to support the factory-built housing industry. Requires the department to report on outcomes to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2027. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a statewide shelter program through which regional coordinators are selected to administer funding to shelter providers. Sunsets January 2, 2034. Requires the department to adopt rules on or before January 1, 2026, and to select regional coordinators on or before May 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

] Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives. Directs the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee to review the study and to recommend for adoption by the State Board of Education a policy regarding the improvement of school attendance. [ Requires the department to make available to the public data provided to the department by school districts and public charter schools related to students who are regular attenders and students who are chronically absent. ] [ Directs the department to develop best practices related to student absences and to develop a common coding system for school districts to record and report student absences. ] [ Modifies requirements and allowed uses of grants awarded to school districts to implement a parent notification and early warning system. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Requires health benefit plans and medical assistance managed plans to provide coverage with no cost-sharing for additional treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and prohibits requiring prior authorization.

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.

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.

] 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.

] [ Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to issue low-interest short-term loans for the construction of mixed income housing. ] Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to adopt rules for long-term financing of residential housing on or before January 1, 2027. Requires the department to report on recommendations for mixed income housing by November 15, 2025, and report on updates to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026. [ Establishes the Mixed Income Public Development Loan Fund to be continually appropriated to the department for those purposes. ] Reduces limitations on the mixed income housing that housing authorities may finance, develop, own, operate or manage. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes a community-based perinatal services access program to increase access to culturally specific and culturally competent community-based services during the perinatal period. Expands coverage in the medical assistance program and under health insurance policies for services provided by doulas, lactation counselors and lactation educators. Directs the Health Licensing Office to adopt rules to regulate the practice of lactation counselors and lactation educators.