The Act changes the process for setting aside offense convictions and dismissals and contempt findings. The Act makes some of the same changes for setting aside GEI judgments. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Modifies the process for setting aside convictions, dismissals, contempt of court findings and guilty except for insanity judgments. Increases the waiting period for setting aside certain types of contempt of court findings. Modifies when the court is required to hold a hearing on and grant motions to set aside. Requires that the court enter an order within 120 days of granting a motion to set aside. Specifies a process for when a person has outstanding financial obligations and authorizes the court to waive such obligations under specified circumstances. Provides that the required time period prior to filing the motion, during which the person is required to have no convictions, applies to motions to set aside convictions and certain arrests, charges and citations only. Provides that the dismissal of a traffic violation citation may not be set aside. Directs the Judicial Department to annually submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary concerning motions to set aside.

This Act makes two new kinds of redemption centers and makes other changes to the Bottle Bill. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Modifies provisions of the beverage container redemption and recycling law. Authorizes establishment of alternative access redemption centers and producer responsibility organization depot redemption centers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

This Act makes some changes to the mining laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Exempts from the requirement to obtain an onshore exploration permit wells from which sample materials are acquired, if the well is constructed by a licensed well constructor. Provides that the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may not impose additional conditions on the transfer of an operating permit. Provides that the department or other permitting agency may not require a land use compatibility statement for activities already authorized by a local jurisdiction.

The Act makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department. Directs the office to conduct audits of noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts and report incidents of judicial bias or egregious behavior to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability.

This Act makes cities adopt local rental standards, which may include rent control. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires each city with a population of less than 200,000 to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2027. Allows adoption of rent control through local standards adopted under this Act or by cities with a population of 200,000 or greater. Requires review of local standards at least every 10 years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Says that a company that gives work to people with disabilities must use people with disabilities for at least 50 percent of the work hours that go into making goods or doing services. Says what must happen if a public agency ends a contract for goods or services and a new company takes over. Says that the new contract must have a health plan as good as or better than the health plan in the old contract. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). [Digest: Says that a company that gives work to people with disabilities must use people with disabilities for at least 50 percent of the work hours that go into making goods or doing services. Says what must happen if a public agency ends a contract for goods or services and a new company takes over. Says that the new contract must have a health plan as good as or better than the health plan in the old contract. Says the new contract can do this by joining a labor union's health plan or giving benefits as good as those in the Oregon Health Plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0).] Requires that qualified nonprofit agencies for individuals with disabilities employ individuals with disabilities for not less than 50 percent of the work hours of direct labor required for manufacturing or providing products or services. Requires that a service provider that enters into a contract with a public agency to provide goods or services after the public agency terminated or declined to renew a previous contract with a different service provider must reimburse individuals with disabilities who were employed under the previous contract for amounts the individuals with disabilities paid for continuation coverage and must in the new contract provide health benefits that are as favorable as, or more favorable than, the health benefits available under the previous contract. [Permits the successor service provider to provide health benefits through enrollment in a health plan that a labor organization maintains or to provide health benefits that are as favorable as, or more favorable than, the benefits available under the Oregon Health Plan.] Requires the new contract to provide the health benefits at the first opportunity in which employee enrollment in the new employer's benefit plan becomes available, but not later than one year after the effective date of the new contract. Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to confirm that a public agency or qualified nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities has included the provisions required in the Act in any new contract with a successor service provider. Permits the department to require amendment of the new contract to incorporate the required provisions and to impose a civil penalty of not more than $500 for each day in which the parties to the new contract fail to incorporate the required provisions.

This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the construction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials industries. Permits the department to use moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to develop, implement and maintain the pilot programs. Requires a report to the Legislative Assembly regarding the status of the pilot programs by September 15, 2026. Sunsets pilot programs on December 31, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act would set up a task force to study ways to prevent real property title fraud. The Act would require a report to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.0). Creates the Task Force on Real Property Title Fraud Prevention to study methods for preventing title fraud upon transfers of real property. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Allows a project to partake in the community solar program that is five megawatts or less. Allows a project and its subscribers to be in different service areas of the state. Sets a cap on the total capacity of the program and raises the cap over time. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Allows a community solar project with a nameplate capacity of five megawatts or less to participate in the community solar program. Allows a community solar project and its subscribers to be located in different electric company service territories. Establishes, beginning in 2026, an initial cap on the total generating capacity of the community solar projects participating in the program at no less than 4.5 percent of an electric company's system peak in the calendar year 2016. Increases the cap by an additional 2 percent each year up to 14.5 percent beginning in 2031 and each subsequent year. Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt a schedule establishing penalties that may be imposed on an electric company for unreasonably delaying the interconnection process for a community solar project.

Tells a state agency to see if it is possible to get discounts on home loans for putting in renewable energy systems. Shows examples of the kinds of systems the agency should look into. Tells the agency to report back its findings to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study the feasibility of providing discounted mortgage loans to home buyers who install energy generation improvements capable of providing electricity to a local utility. Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy resources not later than September 15, 2026.

The Act directs the CJC to study rates of crime recidivism. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect of different types of sentences on rates of recidivism. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.

The Act requires state and U.S. flags on public buildings to be flame hardy flags by July 4, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags. Directs public buildings to transition from displaying flags manufactured of flammable materials to flags manufactured of flame retardant materials by July 4, 2026.

The Act tells courts to say that a rule is invalid if the rule makes a public body break federal laws or regulations. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Directs the courts to declare a rule invalid if the rule requires a public body to fail to comply with federal laws or regulations.

The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to _____ for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by _______. Limits biennial expenditures from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act makes changes to two harassment crimes. The Act also reduces some crimes to violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Repeals a manner of committing the crime of harassment. Requires that for a manner of committing the crime of aggravated harassment, the person must create a risk of spreading communicable disease to the victim. Reduces to Class A violation offenses the crimes of failure to appear in a violation proceeding, failure to appear in the second degree, criminal trespass in the second degree, criminal mischief in the third degree, failure to carry a license or to present a license to a police officer and, under specified circumstances, failure to appear on a criminal citation, theft in the third degree, failure to report as a sex offender, driving while suspended and failure to perform the duties of a driver when property is damaged. Punishes by a maximum fine of $2,000.