This Act provides money to replace old mobile homes in SW Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.

The Act makes a division in OSP to deal with marijuana grows that are illegal. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Establishes a division in the Department of State Police to enforce laws related to illegal marijuana cultivation.

Gives students money for school, creates standards for a high school degree, takes away the cap for virtual schools and allows students to go to school in other districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to certain students of this state. Restricts the percentage of students from each school district who may enroll in the program for the first 10 years. Requires a student to demonstrate proficiency in specified Essential Learning Skills prior to the student being awarded a high school diploma or a modified diploma. Applies to diplomas awarded on or after January 1, 2026. Removes the requirement that a student must receive approval from the student's resident school district before enrolling in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the school district if a specified percentage of students in the school district already are enrolled in virtual public charter schools that are not sponsored by the school district. Establishes the open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in a nonresident school district with the consent of the receiving school district. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act would make a PEO elect to treat the workers of its clients as either its own workers or the workers of the client for certain UI laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). [Digest: The Act would make a worker leasing company elect to treat the workers it supplies to a client as either its own workers or the workers of the client for certain UI laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5).] Allows a [worker leasing company] professional employer organization to elect to treat the employees [it furnishes to] of a client employer for whom the PEO has assumed employer responsibilities as either the employees of the [company] PEO itself or of the client employer for certain purposes under unemployment insurance law. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

This Act lets OHCS give grants to tenants whose public housing is terminated. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).] [Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing not later than September 15, 2026.] Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to support tenants of publicly supported housing when the housing's affordability restrictions are terminated. Establishes the Expiring Affordable Housing Tenant Support Fund. Appropriates moneys for deposit into the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.

The Act would allow tribes and health centers in the state to enter an agreement with the OHA to take actions related to reportable diseases. The Act would allow tribes and health centers in the state to enter an agreement with the OHA to get and use some health data about tribes in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority to enter into an agreement with a federally recognized Indian tribe in Oregon or a tribal epidemiology center in Oregon to allow the tribe or center to accept reports of reportable diseases and investigate cases of reportable diseases. Authorizes the authority to enter into an agreement with a federally recognized Indian tribe in Oregon or a tribal epidemiology center in Oregon to allow the tribe or center to access and use tribal data under the prescription monitoring program.

The Act gives money to ODOT to give to the City of Portland to help design a bridge. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.4). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation for distribution to the City of Portland for the purpose of designing a bridge across Columbia Boulevard. Directs the city to report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on seeking federal funds for the bridge across Columbia Boulevard. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act tells the DOJ to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Directs the Department of Justice to study ways to address domestic violence, 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.

Requires that all candidates will be on the same primary ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires all candidates for partisan office and nonpartisan office, regardless of political party affiliation or nonaffiliation, to appear on the same unified primary election ballot, with the five candidates receiving the most votes advancing to the general election ballot. Exempts candidates for President and Vice President of the United States.

The Act updates laws about youth diversion plans and basic services to prevent crimes by children. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Modifies provisions of law regarding local juvenile diversion plans and plans for juvenile crime prevention basic services.

The Act requires DHS to adjust contracts each year to reflect cost of living increases. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires multiyear contracts entered into between the Department of Human Services and private entities for the provision of health or social services to include annual cost of living adjustments.

The Act directs DHS to set up a grant program for people who had certain resources seized while in the care or custody of DHS. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Directs the Department of Human Services to establish and administer the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and used to pay for certain services provided. Sunsets the grant program on later of the date the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund is depleted or January 2, 2055. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act directs OHA to study the standards that must be met to retain a person for treatment when the person objects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria. Directs the authority 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 DOJ to study privacy and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Requires the Department of Justice to study privacy and 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 makes new laws with respect to workforce development programs and projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Makes changes to workforce development statutes to improve alignment across workforce development programs and projects. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop a program to convene local industry sector partnerships. Requires the State Workforce and Talent Development Board to consult with local workforce development boards and relevant state agencies to establish a definition for the term "public workforce system." Requires the State Workforce and Talent Development Board to establish criteria for identifying critical workforce shortages and strategic workforce opportunities and requires the board and local workforce development boards to identify such shortages and opportunities based on the criteria established by the board. Incorporates the identification of and responsiveness to critical workforce shortages and strategic workforce opportunities as an objective for various workforce programs in key industry sectors. Renames the Prosperity 10,000 Program as the Prosperity Program. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to local workforce development boards to administer the program. Makes changes concerning term limits for members appointed to the Oregon Youth Works Advisory Board.