The Act requires DAS to study methods to detect paycheck errors. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study methods for detecting paycheck errors. Directs the department 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. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

This Act stops a city from limiting home building for tree preservation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits a local government from conditioning the development or use of property for needed housing based on the retention of trees. Provides exceptions. Sunsets January 1, 2036.

The Act tells the OHA to have a public health laboratory and to run a program for testing newborns. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot screening program and implement additional programs related to newborn bloodspot screening. Requires health care providers and health care facilities to ensure collection and delivery of specimens for newborn bloodspot screening and report certain test results to the authority. Creates an exemption for parents or guardians who oppose screening of an infant for religious or philosophical reasons.

Tells a health care facility to make a process that a staff member may use to complain if the staff member believes in good faith supply or equipment is not safe. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs a health care facility to establish and maintain procedures that a staff member may use to submit to the health care facility a complaint regarding a medical supply or equipment that the staff member believes in good faith is faulty or dangerous. Requires the health care facility to retain a complaint and associated information for 10 years, inform a person if the health care facility uses, has used or stops using a medical supply or equipment that is subject to a complaint and establish and maintain procedures that a person may use to obtain a copy of a complaint and associated information.

This Act stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant's ideas. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.

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 State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

This Act changes the way DEQ can agree to make a regulatory process work better or faster. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process. Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish standards to guide the department in the exercise of the department's authority. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act creates a fund for childhood teaching development at HECC. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to community colleges and public universities in this state that offer [early childhood education degrees and certificates] on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related degree or certificate programs. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Urges Congress to spend more on research involving health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Urges Congress to ensure strong annual federal funding for the National Institutes of Health and to increase investment in cutting-edge medical research through grants from the NIH to research institutions.

The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for certain biennial expenses. Limits certain biennial expenditures by the department from lottery moneys. Limits certain biennial expenditures from certain fees, moneys or other revenues collected or received by the department. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from certain federal funds. Limits biennial expenditures and transfers by the department from specified accounts. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act creates two new crimes concerning rapid fire activators. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.5). Creates the crime of unlawful transport, manufacture or transfer of a rapid fire activator. Punishes by a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a rapid fire activator. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Specifies exceptions for both crimes. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act creates the OPUHSC as part of the ODEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Commission within the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Fund. Establishes a grant program for the purpose of providing financial assistance to consumer-owned utilities for developing projects associated with natural disaster mitigation, prevention, response and recovery. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds to finance projects associated with natural disaster mitigation, prevention, response and recovery.

The Act would set up a grant program for organizers of festivals and other public events at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland. The Act would fund a study of options for the operation and maintenance of the park that will improve the livability and economy in the city and the state. The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). [Digest: The Act would require a study of economic development in this state with a report to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).] [Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Appropriates moneys to establish a revolving grant program for organizers of festivals and other public events at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland. Funds a collaborative study by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University of options for the long-term, cost-effective operation and maintenance of Tom McCall Waterfront Park that will improve Portland's and Oregon's livability and economy. Requires the institute to submit a report to, among others, the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Says that a board that issues job licenses must let a person who wants one to show job experience instead of schooling if the license needs a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a professional licensing board to consider experience in lieu of a high school diploma or an equivalent for licensure, certification or other authorization to provide certain occupational or professional services. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Tells ODE to take actions about how school districts record and respond to student absences. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Department of Education to review, make recommendations and develop procedures related to the recording of student absences and how school districts respond to student absences. Requires school districts to report to the department when a student is not considered to have regular attendance.