Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin

Maddy summarySB 1168 prohibits home health care and home hospice care entities from paying staff based on per-visit compensation. This directly affects home health and hospice providers, who will no longer be able to structure staff pay around individual patient visits. The bill clarifies definitions of "home health services" and "home hospice services" under Oregon law to align with this compensation change. It takes effect January 1, 2026, after being signed by the governor and becoming Chapter 546 of the 2025 Laws.

[ 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.

Provides additional data to be included by institutions of higher education in an annual report regarding allegations of sexual misconduct and violence on the campus of the institution. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

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.

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant to the Chintimini Wildlife Center. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Modifies provisions regarding subsidies for adoptive parents and guardians. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to redirect subsidy payments for the benefit of a child who no longer receives direct support from an adoptive parent or guardian. Creates a rebuttable presumption that continuing contact with biological siblings is in the best interest of children of parents whose parental rights have been terminated. Directs the court to make a determination regarding a child's continuing contact with the child's biological siblings when parental rights are terminated. Directs the department to disclose records regarding a child's life history, at the request of the child, if the child's parent's parental rights to the child were surrendered or terminated.

Directs the Department of Human Services to establish and administer the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and used to pay for certain services provided. Sunsets the grant program on later of the date the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund is depleted or January 2, 2055. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to a taxpayer that employs a foster child or a former foster child. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Creates new requirements for the application process for a license, certificate, endorsement or authorization from the Department of Human Services for various providers of services to children, older adults and individuals with disabilities, and individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Prohibits new applications within one year after a revocation or denial of a license, certificate, endorsement or authorization. Requires the department to report to the Legislative Assembly about the number of hours and cost to the department required to process initial and renewal applications. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.