Sen. Kayse Jama

Requires producers of inhalant delivery systems to join an inhalant delivery system producer responsibility organization and implement an inhalant delivery system producer responsibility program for the collection and disposal of inhalant delivery systems. Establishes a refund value for inhalant delivery systems sold in this state. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to administer and enforce the requirements of the Act. Establishes the Inhalant Delivery System Producer Responsibility Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

] Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state , except from premises established as a store by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and licensed by the Department of Revenue or authorized by a local government . Defines "flavored inhalant delivery system product" and "flavored tobacco product." Prohibits distributing, offering or providing, without compensation, any tobacco product or inhalant delivery system. Requires any sale of cigarettes, inhalant delivery systems or smokeless tobacco products to occur at licensed premises. Authorizes local governments to adopt regulations that are stricter than state law on the sale of inhalant delivery system products or tobacco products. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Authorizes cities and counties to impose a fee on noncommercial residences that are vacant for more than 180 consecutive or cumulative days in a calendar year. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Maddy summarySB 705 modifies Oregon's workers' compensation rules for workers with multiple jobs who suffer temporary total disability. It creates a new process where insurers can pay supplemental benefits based on combined earnings from all jobs (instead of just one job), but must then be reimbursed by the state Workers' Benefit Fund for the amount exceeding what would have been paid for a single-job worker. This directly affects injured workers with multiple jobs and their employers/insurers, ensuring the state covers the extra cost of these supplemental payments. The law applies to benefits payable starting January 1, 2026, and clarifies that these supplemental benefit costs won't impact insurance rate calculations.

] [ 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.

] 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 employers and employment agencies to include certain wage and benefit information in job postings for job, promotion and transfer opportunities. Requires employers to maintain certain employment records for each employee. Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct proactive outreach and ongoing training to educate employers and employment agencies about the requirements. Makes a violation an unlawful practice and permits the commissioner [ of the Bureau of Labor and Industries ] to assess civil penalties for a violation. [ Establishes circumstances under which the commissioner may dismiss a complaint about a violation. ] Permits the commissioner to issue a letter of explanation or education to an employer or employment agency instead of a civil penalty for a first violation. Requires the remainder of sums collected as penalties, after application toward reimbursement of costs, to be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer or an employment agency to retaliate or discriminate against an employee for invoking or exercising certain rights. Makes employment agencies subject to the prohibition against inquiries regarding salary history and past criminal convictions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts. Requires the boards to approve a community college's membership in a state or national association. Permits the board to provide stipends to members of the board. Requires the members of the board to have an official electronic mail address that is posted on the website maintained by the community college. Requires the board to include an additional voting member of the board who is a full-time student at the community college. Requires the board to report to the Legislative Assembly on the board's compliance with the Act. 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.