The Act tells OED to study issues related to job-protected time off from work. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to laws concerning job-protected leave from work. 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.

The Act creates a new income tax subtraction for teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for teachers. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Creates a fund that three state agencies may use to help protect from, recover from and restore property damaged by wildfires. Specifies what the agencies may use the moneys in the fund to do. Tells the State Fire Marshal to send some of the money to a fund that makes grants to rural fire protection districts. Tells insurers to pay a fee to a state agency for each property insurance policy the insurer issues in this state. Lets insurers get the money they pay back from policy holders. Tells the state agency to put the money from the fee into the fund that the other three state agencies use. Sets a filing fee for property taxes and sets aside part of the fee for the wildfire protection fund. Sunsets the Act on July 1, 2033. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Establishes the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs the State Fire Marshal, the State Forestry Department and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from the fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and recovery from wildfires. Requires the State Fire Marshal to reserve and transfer to a revolving fund a certain percentage of moneys from the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund for grants to rural fire protection districts. Requires an insurer each year to remit to Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a surcharge for each policy of insurance that is property insurance. Permits an insurer each year to recoup from insureds the amount the insurer remitted to the director. Requires the director to deposit the proceeds of the surcharge into the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Imposes a filing fee for property taxes and requires remission of the proceeds of the fee, less a specified percentage for administrative costs, to the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Sunsets July 1, 2033.

The Act would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA operate better. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Directs the authority to report the findings of the contractor to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2026.

Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 15, 2026.

Requires board members from the school district in which the State Capitol is located to represent zones. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Provides that directors of the district school board of the Salem-Keizer School District must be nominated and elected by zone.

The Act creates an account to help public bodies respond to emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Establishes the Oregon Public Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Disaster Response Fund. Continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for funding to state agencies, local governments, special government bodies, federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations for specified emergency response activities.

The Act creates a program to provide emergency dental care to certain people who are 65 years of age or older. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study access to dental care for seniors. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study barriers to accessing dental care for seniors. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Establishes the Seniors Emergency Dental Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide certain emergency dental services to eligible low-income seniors without any corresponding copayments, deductibles or cost sharing required. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would grant a partial tax exemption for the home of a senior or the senior's surviving spouse. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Allows a partial exemption of ad valorem property taxes due on the owner-occupied principal dwelling of an individual who is at least 65 years of age and the individual's surviving spouse regardless of age. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support PSAP consolidation and upgrades. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets on January 2, 2045.

Requires ODE to prepare state report cards about school districts' TAG students. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires school districts to submit specified information to the Department of Education related to talented and gifted children. Directs the department to issue annual district and state report cards based on the submitted information.

The Act extends the deadlines for a task force to report back to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Extends the dates by which the Joint Task Force on Regional Behavioral Health Accountability must provide draft recommendations and submit a final report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health. Extends the sunset date for the task force. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Requires health classes to cover from conception to birth. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.

The Act would require a study of the means of granting a tax break to emergency volunteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the means of granting a tax benefit to emergency management volunteers. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.

The Act tells an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facilities. The Act ends the program later. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2031. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.