The Act would make the state business development department put up a new version of its website. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to update and redesign its public website. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Gives money to ODE to transfer to OASBO to set up a program for school business professionals. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: Gives money to ODE to set up a program for school business professionals. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education [to establish an accreditation] for a statewide education program for school business professionals. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act creates a new crime about disclosing private data. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information. Punishes by a maximum of six months' imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both.

The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon Board of Accountancy. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Says that building a child care center in a place that provides affordable housing does not mean that a person building the whole place must pay prevailing wage. But building the child care center itself does require paying prevailing wage for labor. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that constructing a nonprofit child care facility within a project for affordable housing does not subject the project for affordable housing to prevailing wage requirements if the child care facility meets specified requirements. Provides that prevailing wage requirements do apply to the construction of a child care facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would make DCBS study workers' comp in this state and file a report of the study with the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study workers' compensation in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to labor no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.

The Act gives money to the ODE for an apprenticeship program for teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: The Act gives money to the TSPC to give to an apprenticeship program for teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the [Teacher Standards and Practices Commission] Department of Education for distribution to the Educator Advancement Council to support the Oregon Registered Teaching Apprenticeship Program. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act creates the Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities. The Act tells the task force to research issues related to shortages of nurses and other medical professionals in rural areas. The Act would end the task force on a certain date. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Establishes a Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities. Directs the task force to investigate issues related to alleviating a shortage of skilled and experienced nurses and medical technicians in or near Douglas County. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act tells ODEM to do a study on the resilience of seaports. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.

The Act tells BOLI to study issues related to employment in this state. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in this state. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.

This Act creates a state desalination agency and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Oregon Desalination Authority. Directs the authority to study the development and maintenance of desalination facilities in this state. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act makes payments received for health care services not taxed by the corporate activity tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Makes changes to the laws regarding hospital nurse staffing plans. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). [Digest: Tells OHA to study the effects of House Bill 2697 and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the effects of House Bill 2697 (2023). Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets January 2, 2027.] Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopted, the applicable statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for the unit. Allows the Oregon Health Authority to consolidate multiple complaints related to hospital staffing ratios that contain the same allegations or allegations based on the same set of facts into a single investigation or enforcement action. Directs the authority to give priority to the investigation and disposition of complaints related to hospital staffing ratios that contain allegations that occur on or after June 1, 2025. Creates a violation for failure to adopt a hospital-wide nurse staffing plan, comply with a nurse staffing plan that has been adopted for a unit, or comply with a statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for a unit if a nurse staffing plan has not been adopted for a unit. Prohibits the imposition of a civil penalty for a violation for failure to comply with a statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for a unit if the hospital took certain actions in efforts to comply. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule. Directs courts to exercise doubt in favor of an interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty.

Tells colleges to give course credit to an incoming student who took part in certain programs while the student was in high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution. Requires the institution to award two or four academic credits to each student who participated in specified programs affiliated with national organizations. Prohibits an institution from requiring certain students to take an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution as a prerequisite for taking more advanced courses at the institution.