Requires a covered platform to have an agreement in order to access the online content of a news provider. Creates a group for civic information to give grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). [Digest: Makes online platforms pay online news providers and a group for civic information. Creates a group for civic information to give grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).] [Requires online platforms to pay moneys to digital journalism providers and the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Allows an online platform to use an arbitration process to determine the percentage of an online platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to digital journalism providers.] Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement. Specifies requirements that an agreement must meet. Creates a private cause of action that a digital journalism provider may bring against a covered platform if the covered platform accesses for an Oregon audience the online content of the digital journalism provider without an agreement or fails to comply with an agreement. Allows for the recovery of the greater of statutory or actual damages, and for punitive damages. Bars a cause of action if the covered platform is participating in arbitration or in compliance with a final arbitration order, judgment or settlement agreement. Bars a cause of action for access that occurs between January 1, 2026, and December 31, 2027, if the covered platform elects to pay a certain sum amount. Allows a covered platform or group of digital journalism providers to initiate an arbitration process to determine a percentage of the covered platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to the digital journalism providers. Requires online platforms to report annually certain information about compensation paid to digital journalism providers. Establishes the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Directs the consortium to award grants for applicants that seek to improve civic information.

The Act tells BOLI to study matters related to the laws that BOLI enforces. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to laws over which the bureau has enforcement authority. 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.

The Act tells the OPDC to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to study ways to improve the provision of public defense services within this state, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.

Allows virtual public charter schools to receive a SIA grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Allows virtual public charter schools to be eligible for grants distributed from the Student Investment Account. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

This Act changes the time of the report about some information from DCBS to PDAB to yearly. Changes the number of drugs PDAB must identify for cost issues. Changes PDAB's reporting about generic drugs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). [Digest: The Act makes the State Board of Pharmacy study prescription drugs. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).] [Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Modifies, from quarterly to annually, the timing of the Department of Consumer and Business Services' requirement to report certain information to the Prescription Drug Affordability Board. Modifies the number of prescription drugs that may create affordability challenges that the board is directed to identify. Modifies the board's reporting requirements for the status of the generic drug market.

The Act directs OJD to study ways to improve the process for setting aside convictions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Judicial Department to study ways to improve the efficiency of the process for setting aside convictions. Directs the department 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 tells the Department of Corrections to study inmates. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Department of Corrections to study inmates. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

Allows a parent to choose the school that the parent's child attends. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish the right of a parent to choose the school that the parent's child attends. Requires the establishment of school choice accounts for parents who choose nonpublic education. Allows parents who choose nonpublic education to pay for expenses incurred in relation to the education of a child with moneys from a school choice account. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

The Act gives money to the DOC for a program for adults in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for purpose of funding the advanced esthetics program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act says that the Governor has to interview at least one person who is part of a minority group when naming a person to the Port of Portland board. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Governor to interview at least one candidate from an underserved racial, ethnic or minority population when making an appointment to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland.

The Act gives a teacher more time to work in the public schools of this state without a license while waiting for the TSPC to review their application for a license. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Modifies the event to start calculating the 90-day period during which an applicant for a teaching license may be employed in a public school of this state pending evaluation of their application by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

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 Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act would have the state use the last known address of adults in custody, if available, to create some voting districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center. Directs the center to adjust the population data reported in the federal decennial census to reflect the residence status of adults in custody before incarceration. Requires the Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, to reapportion the state into legislative districts based on the adjusted population data. Requires use of the adjusted population data to apportion county or municipal boundaries.

The Act makes changes to laws governing CCOs to include local health officials. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the membership of the metrics and scoring subcommittee of the Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee to include a member with expertise in public health or population health data. Modifies the membership of the Medicaid Advisory Committee to include professionals with experience in providing public health, behavioral health and health-related social needs services. Requires coordinated care organizations' governing bodies to include senior local health officials and county commissioners, when possible. Requires coordinated care organizations' community advisory councils to include local public health authority or local mental health authority representatives, when possible. Directs state agencies to allow local health departments to receive payment for various services. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act changes manslaughter to include when a person delivers drugs and it results in death. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.