This Act caps low carbon fuel standards at a ten percent reduction and stops local governments from banning large fuel tanks. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Limits greenhouse gas emission reductions, for purposes of low carbon fuel standards, to 10 percent below 2010 levels. Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting the storage capacity of fossil fuel terminals. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would repeal the law that allows UI benefits to be paid to a person who is unemployed due to an active strike. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.6). Repeals Enrolled Senate Bill 916 (2025), which authorized unemployment insurance benefits for individuals who are unemployed due to a strike.

This Act says that makers of batteries must carry out a plan to collect and recycle batteries. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires producers of batteries or battery-containing products to join a battery producer responsibility organization and implement a battery producer responsibility program for the collection and recycling of batteries. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to administer and enforce requirements of the Act. Establishes the Battery Producer Responsibility Fund. Imposes civil penalties for violations of the Act.

The Act requires OHA to change the way it sets rates for CCOs. The Act adds steps that OHA must take before making new rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.6). [Digest: The Act requires OHA to change the way it sets rates for CCOs. The Act adds steps that OHA must take before making new rules. The Act prevents OHA from taking certain costly measures until January 2, 2028. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.3).] Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations. [Requires the Oregon Health Policy Board to establish a process for public review of and comment on the authority's rate development process. Requires the authority to commission an independent review of the current rate development process and report back to the Legislative Assembly.] Requires the authority to prepare a medical assistance cost impact statement before adopting rules other than procedural rules. [Prohibits the authority from adopting a new rule, program or contractual requirement that will cost $1 million or more during a biennium. Sunsets on January 2, 2028.] [Imposes a three-year moratorium on the requirement for a coordinated care organization to spend a portion of the organization's annual net income or reserves on addressing health disparities and the social determinants of health.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Says that people who get public contracts must obey tax laws and must show proof of compliance with tax laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Requires public contractors to demonstrate and maintain tax compliance, through a certification process, as a condition of the execution of a public contract. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Directs the Secretary of State to study methods for collecting information through business registry function to ensure tax compliance by persons doing business in this state. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act says that an operator may require a person who does recreation to waive some kinds of claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). [Digest: The Act says that an operator may require a person who does recreation to release the operator from some types of claims. Tells OBDD to study issues for the recreation industry and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9).] Provides that an operator may require [an adult] a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence. [Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study recreation commerce and report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 15, 2026.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Says what a person must tell a resident before selling or leasing a solar energy system to the resident. Says what must be in a contract for a sale or lease of a solar energy system. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Requires a solar energy contractor or person that installs a solar energy system to have a license appropriate for the scope of work the solar energy contractor or person will perform. Specifies disclosures required in purchase agreements, lease agreements and power purchase agreements related to solar energy systems. Specifies elements and provisions that an installation contract for a solar energy system must have. Prohibits deceptive statements concerning the provisions of an installation contract. Punishes a violation or a failure to comply with the provisions of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Tells an insurer to give to a state agency the details of models the insurer uses to score property for wildfire risk. Tells the insurer to give notice about what actions a policy holder can take to better the risk score. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Requires an insurer that uses a catastrophe model or wildfire risk model or scoring method to provide the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a description of each model or scoring method, along with related information, and an explanation of how the insurer uses the model or scoring method in underwriting decisions. Specifies [elements] that an insurer must [include in] incorporate applicable community-level mitigation actions and property-specific mitigation actions into each model and requires the insurer to give a premium discount or adjustment, or other incentive, to a policy holder that demonstrates having undertaken a property-specific mitigation action or that a community-level mitigation action occurred in proximity to the policy holder's property. Requires an insurer to post on the insurer's website, and provide to an applicant for insurance or a policy holder seeking a renewal, information about premium discounts or adjustments, or other incentives, that are available to applicants or policy holders that undertake a property-specific mitigation action or demonstrate that a community-level mitigation action occurred in proximity to the applicant's or policy holder's property. Permits an applicant or policy holder to appeal an insurer's classification of the applicant's or policy holder's property or to dispute the amount of a premium discount or adjustment or other incentive the insurer provides. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

This Act stops HOAs or deed terms from limiting an owner from upgrading the fire safety of materials in their home. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Invalidates deed restrictions and planned community governing documents prohibiting the [removal] replacement of nonfire-hardened building materials or installation of fire-hardened building materials on residential properties. Limits a homeowners association's ability to enforce regulations that would constrain installation of fire-hardened building materials. Applies to new and existing deed restrictions and planned communities. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act increases the amount of an estate that is not taxed and changes estate tax rates. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). [Digest: The Act tells the LRO to study the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1).] [Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the estate tax. Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue not later than December 1, 2027.] Converts the $1 million exclusion for an estate subject to tax to a deduction of $2.5 million. Phases in the tax above the deduction. Raises the filing threshold for an estate tax return. Adjusts the deduction and filing threshold for inflation. Adjusts estate tax rates. Applies to the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act puts ODEM in charge of the volunteer database known as ORVID. The Act tells ODEM to adapt the database in specified ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Transfers responsibility for the volunteer database known as ORVID from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Directs the department to adapt and maintain the database. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act tells the Oregon Health Authority to create a report about large employers that have employees who get health care from the state. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with the Department of Human Services and the Employment Department to submit an annual report that [identifies] provides information about employers that employ [50] 500 or more employees in this state and [that] have employees [or dependents of the employees] who are medical assistance recipients. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act changes what "abuse" means when talking about hurting a child. It says that DHS can only look into some reports of child abuse. It also makes a rule for how certain reports of child abuse are resolved. It is an emergency law and starts right away. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: The Act changes what "threatened harm" means when talking about hurting a child. It says that DHS can only look into some reports of child abuse. It also makes a rule for how certain reports of child abuse are resolved. It is an emergency law and starts right away. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.7).] Modifies the definition of ["threatened harm"] "abuse" for purposes of determining whether a child has been abused. Limits the investigative jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services to investigate certain reports of child abuse. Prohibits making findings in abuse investigations where the alleged perpetrator was a minor at the time of the alleged abuse. Creates exceptions. [Creates a statutory substantiation standard for certain reports of alleged child abuse.] Increases the standard of proof necessary for reporting certain abuse investigation findings to the central state registry. Directs the department to monitor implementation of new child abuse investigation processes and report back to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly relating to human services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act tells some insurers to cover care for some fertility treatments and exempts some insurers from parts of this requirement. Tells DCBS to make a program to cover costs for exempt insurers. Creates a new fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). [Digest: The Act tells some insurers, OEBB and PEBB to cover care for some fertility treatments. The Act tells OHA and DCBS to study access to reproductive treatments and report back to the committee on health. The Act makes it an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0).] Requires certain health insurers[, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board] to cover fertility services and treatments. Exempts certain insurers from specific coverage requirements. [Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study access to fertility and reproductive endocrinology services and report findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.] [Declares an emergency, effective on passage.] Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to administer a program to provide reimbursement for the costs for treatments when not covered by exempted insurers. Establishes the Family Building Fund in the State Treasury.

Fixes firm dates for measures during session. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Establishes deadlines and procedural rules for completion of legislative measures for the 2026 regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly.