The Act would make the Employment Department study how UI law is carried out in this state and file a report of the study with the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Employment Department to study the implementation of unemployment insurance law in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.

The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products. Directs the department to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.

The Act increases fees under the wildlife laws. The Act allows an agency to create a new fee. The Act creates a new subaccount. The Act increases fees under commercial fishing laws. The Act takes effect 91 days after session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.7). Increases certain wildlife license, tag and permit fee amounts. Authorizes the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish ocean endorsements by rule. Establishes the Marine Fisheries Enhancement Fund Subaccount within the Fish and Wildlife Account. Increases certain license, permit and participation fees under the commercial fishing laws. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Makes a hospital report on what it spends to counter efforts by labor to organize. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires a hospital to report on the amount of money the hospital spends on strategies to discourage, avoid or prevent labor organizing.

The Act makes changes to the requirements for foster children to get a tuition waiver. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition waivers.

The Act makes it a crime to disclose fake intimate images. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3). Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of a computer-generated explicit likeness. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Directs ODVA to create a grant program to provide funding to counties for veterans' courts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.

The Act lets any county have a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat. The Act ups a charge for getting married and indexes it to the CPI. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.9). [Digest: The Act lets Marion County have a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat. The Act ups a charge for getting married and indexes it to the CPI. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2).] Allows [the Marion County] a county court or board of county commissioners in any county to establish a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat. Increases the personal payment that may be charged for marriage solemnization and directs the State Court Administrator to adjust the payment amount to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index.

The Act changes when a person can set aside a conviction, arrest or GEI finding. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Modifies when a person can obtain an order setting aside a conviction, arrest, charge or guilty except for insanity judgment.

Designates the T-bone as the official state steak. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Designates the T-bone as the official state steak.

The Act updates tax statutes. It replaces cites with descriptive terms and amends statutes of limitation. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Establishes a uniform statute of limitations applicable to tax programs administered and enforced by the Department of Revenue. Replaces statutory citations in administrative provisions with references to taxes administered by the Department of Revenue. Replaces statutory citations in statute providing for taxation of lottery prizes with references to taxes imposed upon or measured by net income. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer. Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.

The Act tells a public university to look at data from DPSST about a person who wants to be a campus security officer. The Act says that DPSST can share the data. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the governing board of a public university to [request and review] ensure that background information about special campus security officers is requested from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training and reviewed before commissioning the officer. Allows the department [of Public Safety Standards and Training] to share information about applicants with a public university.

The Act tells certain persons to report the use of fertilizer on farmland. The Act allows agencies to take certain actions about the reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigated land used for agriculture to annually report information about fertilizer application to the State Department of Agriculture. Authorizes the department and the Department of Environmental Quality to take certain actions related to the information. Directs the State Department of Agriculture to report on the information to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to agriculture on or before September 15 of each odd-numbered year. Authorizes the imposition of civil penalties for a violation.

Makes ODVA create a program to provide loan and credit guarantees for veterans to refinance home mortgages. Creates a fund to pay for amounts due under a guarantee. Bans payments by ODVA other than from the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop a program under which the department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for the purpose of refinancing existing home mortgages on veterans' primary residences. Establishes the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the department. Prohibits the department from paying amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement from any source other than available funds in the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Provides that amounts due and payable under an agreement do not constitute a debt, or a lending of credit, of the state. Authorizes financial institutions to exercise rights against the security if there are insufficient available funds to pay amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to include in the Governor's budget request to the Legislative Assembly for each fiscal period amounts sufficient to permit the payment of amounts due on unpaid loan and credit guarantees for that fiscal period.