] [ Requires online platforms to pay moneys to digital journalism providers and the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Allows an online platform to use an arbitration process to determine the percentage of an online platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to digital journalism providers. ] Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement. Specifies requirements that an agreement must meet. Creates a private cause of action that a digital journalism provider may bring against a covered platform if the covered platform accesses for an Oregon audience the online content of the digital journalism provider without an agreement or fails to comply with an agreement. Allows for the recovery of the greater of statutory or actual damages, and for punitive damages. Bars a cause of action if the covered platform is participating in arbitration or in compliance with a final arbitration order, judgment or settlement agreement. Bars a cause of action for access that occurs between January 1, 2026, and December 31, 2027, if the covered platform elects to pay a certain sum amount. Allows a covered platform or group of digital journalism providers to initiate an arbitration process to determine a percentage of the covered platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to the digital journalism providers. Requires online platforms to report annually certain information about compensation paid to digital journalism providers. Establishes the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Directs the consortium to award grants for applicants that seek to improve civic information.
Sen. Lisa Reynolds
Sponsored bills
] Directs [ the Department of Education and the Oregon Health Authority to jointly ] the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations , [ and ] prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income. Provides exceptions. Requires school districts that make breakfast accessible at a school site to make breakfast accessible at the school site after the beginning of the day. Provides exceptions. Prescribes nutrition standards for reimbursable meals that are paid for by state sources. Directs the Department of Education to apply for statewide participation in federal programs and projects that expand the availability of free or reduced price meals. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education from the General Fund for the purposes of paying any costs owed by parents or guardians for costs previously incurred for a reimbursable meal and assisting school districts in purchasing or upgrading equipment necessary to comply with the expanded provision of free lunches and breakfasts. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent. Applies to estates of decedents who die on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
] [ Requires the Department of Corrections to study health care staffing by the department. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. ] Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and the labor union representing staff employed in health services at the Department of Corrections, to conduct a market study biennially related to the wages and benefits of health services job classifications at the Department of Corrections institutions. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit a report on the results of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health services, the Department of Corrections and the labor union representing staff employed in health services at the Department of Corrections. Establishes minimum staffing requirements that apply to the Department of Corrections for certain state employees at Department of Corrections institutions. Phases in minimum staffing ratios between certain state employees and the number of adults in custody to which the employees can be assigned at any time. Provides that violation of the minimum staffing requirements constitutes an unfair labor practice.
] Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop enterprise strategic workforce plans and to work with executive department agencies on implementation. Grants the department the authority to require agency-specific plan implementation and grants the department director the authority to exempt specific agencies from planning programs. [ Establishes the Enterprise Definitions and Standards Task Force and authorizes the task force to adopt ] Directs the department to develop enterprise-wide definitions and standards that are common among agency functions and to identify dormant or obsolete definitions and standards. Requires state agencies to make prospective conforming changes to agency rules. Authorizes the [ task force ] department to recommend proposed statutory changes to the Legislative Assembly. Sunsets the [ task force ] enterprise-wide definitions and standards effort on January 2, 2030. Establishes reporting requirements for public funds that are distributed by state agencies to private, nonprofit and nongovernmental entities. Provides direction [ on the use of these reports, and alternative information, ] to enhance transparency concerning the use of these funds. Establishes the Key Performance Measure [ Task Force ] Council to make recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of key performance measures in measuring performance-based outcomes and to achieve other outcomes. Creates the [ small agency team and the economic impact team ] specialist team of auditors within the Secretary of State's Division of Audits and directs that [ each ] the team be staffed by at least three auditors. Directs that the [ small agency ] team focus on conducting audits of small public entities [ and that the economic impact team focus on conducting audits to maximize economic returns on investment ] or public entities that have not been audited in at least 10 years . Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
] Requires the Department of Corrections to enter into a contract , or renegotiate an existing contract, with a third party to provide voice communications services at no cost to persons confined at a Department of Corrections institution. Prohibits the receipt of financial or in-kind compensation by the department for providing voice communications services to persons in custody. Directs the department to submit a progress report on the implementation of the Act to the Legislative Assembly by February 1, 2026, and a biennial report on certain data to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15 of each even-numbered year.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Establishes the Food for All Oregonians Program in the Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to [ residents of ] children residing in this state who are six years of age or under and who would qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for their immigration status. Requires the department to implement the program by January 1, 2027, and conduct statewide outreach, education and engagement to maximize enrollment in the program. Requires the department to convene an advisory group to recommend metrics to evaluate the success of the department in treating all applicants for and recipients of public assistance in a welcoming manner and with respect, courtesy, fairness and dignity. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
] Directs the [ Department of Education ] Oregon Business Development Department to [ design ] create and distribute memorial plaques to schools in honor of Senator Peter Courtney's contributions in supporting seismic rehabilitation funding. Directs recipients to display plaques [ at the front entrance ] in a location that is easily visible to visitors to the school . Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.