The Act requires employers to pay employees for time spent on call or on standby. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby. Requires employers to post work schedules at least 14 days in advance, including all scheduled on-call and standby shifts.

The Act tells the TSPC to study opportunities to hire a person to work in a school even if the person has been convicted of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.

The Act tells an agency to create a pilot grant program for managing wildfire risk. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4). Directs the State Forestry Department to establish by rule a pilot grant program for the purpose of managing wildfire risk by certain methods. Sunsets the grant program on June 30, 2027. Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for the purpose of funding the grant program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would create a relief program to provide money to farmworkers who have lost income due to a disaster. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program. Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the authority to carry out the program.

Honors Hector Hinojosa Robles for all he has done for the people of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Recognizes and honors Hector Hinojosa Robles for his remarkable contributions to the people of this state.

The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would require a report on the plan to be turned in next year. The Act would appropriate funds to be used for technical aid for up to six symbiosis pilot programs. The Act would let certain county service districts fund water resource services with charges for services, works or commodities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would have the agency submit a report on the plan next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).] Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon. Requires the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to fund technical assistance for up to six industrial symbiosis pilot communities in Oregon. Authorizes certain county service districts to fund water resource management services with charges for district services, facilities or commodities. [Sunsets on January 2, 2028.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Says that a big company that gives more than $100 to another person for political reasons must first get approval from shareholders to do so. Tells the big company that gives out money for a political reason to let people know it has done so. Tells the heads of the company that they must let people know what interest they have in the person to which the big company gave the money. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires a publicly traded corporation that makes a political expenditure of more than $100 in a calendar year to first obtain approval for the political expenditure from shareholders by an affirmative vote of the majority of shares entitled to vote. Requires a corporation to disclose the amount, recipient and purpose of each political expenditure in excess of $100 in each calendar year. Requires the directors and officers of a publicly traded corporation to disclose a statement of economic interest that provides certain information with respect to the director's or officer's interest in the recipient of the political expenditure or in the candidate or expected change in policy for which the publicly traded corporation made the political expenditure. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would allow for lower premiums for a type of insurance in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Permits the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to evaluate the risk the corporation has insured for employers during the past three years and reduce the premium the corporation charges the employer to reflect any reductions or mitigations in risk that result from an agreement between the employer and the corporation. Permits the corporation to specify in an agreement with the person that owns a new business or that assumes ownership of an existing business conditions under which the corporation will charge the person a reduced premium rate for a probationary period during which the corporation evaluates the person's adherence to the terms of the agreement.

The measure amends a section of the Constitution to make it clear that the state may start a public bank. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to specify that a section restricting certain banks does not prohibit the establishment of a bank owned or operated by the State of Oregon. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

The Act would let tax districts in counties with high tourist counts use a certain percent of net lodging taxes for essential services. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Provides that taxing districts within counties with high averaged annual ratios of tourists to residents may expend a certain percentage of net transient lodging taxes for essential services that benefit both residents and tourists. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would tell DAS to study community water systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study community water systems. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water no later than September 15, 2026.

Tells public higher learning schools not to charge tuition and fees larger than the resident rate for those linked to the armed forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires public universities and community colleges to charge tuition and fees no greater than the resident rate for an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States and for a spouse or dependent child of an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States.

The Act tells ODOT that it should focus on asks to build power lines or other systems on roads when those asks are from places where energy is made from sources that can be replaced, like sunlight, wind or water. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Directs the Department of Transportation or county authorities to prioritize applications for renewable energy facilities and lines, facilities or systems for transmitting electricity from renewable energy facilities when reviewing or granting applications to place, build or construct on the right of way of a state highway or county road.

The Act would let Grant County use road fund moneys from federal forest reserves payments to patrol roads in the county. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Adds Grant County to the list of counties that may use road fund moneys from federal forest reserves payments for patrolling on the county's roads. [Declares an emergency, effective on passage.].

The Act says that an agency has to come before a committee to talk about a rule if 10 members request it in writing. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires an agency, upon the written request of 10 members of the Legislative Assembly objecting to a rule, to appear before an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly for a hearing on the rule.