Rep. Travis Nelson

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers. Requires the authority to establish by rule a newborn screening protocol for cytomegalovirus. Eliminates the requirement if cytomegalovirus is added to the newborn bloodspot screening panel. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program. Makes the program permanent. Modifies eligibility requirements for the program to include all sentences for which a defendant is eligible for a downward dispositional departure. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Maddy summaryHB 2748 prohibits nonhuman entities (such as AI systems or robots) from using specific nursing titles and abbreviations. It explicitly bans the use of terms like "RN," "LPN," "CRNA," "NP," "CMA," and "CNA" by anything that isn’t a human. The law protects these titles from being misused by nonhuman entities while ensuring they remain reserved for licensed healthcare professionals. The bill became law on June 24, 2025, and takes effect January 1, 2026.

Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and cost-sharing provisions for opioid and nonopioid drugs when they are prescribed for the same treatment. Requires the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee to include nonopioid prescription drug alternatives to opioid prescription drugs with the same utilization review requirements when making recommendations to the Oregon Health Authority for the preferred drug list and Practitioner-Managed Prescription Drug Plan.

] Changes the metrics for a homestead's real market value and the household income of a claimant in order to expand eligibility for the homestead property tax deferral program. Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly about the equity that claimants hold in their homesteads and the advantages and disadvantages of determining program eligibility on the basis of equity rather than household income.

Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks.

] Requires an agency that appoints a rules advisory committee with regard to rules implementing legislation to invite [ the first chief sponsor ] certain legislators to participate on the committee as [ a nonvoting member ] nonvoting members . Requires the Small Business Rules Advisory Committee to invite [ the first chief sponsor ] certain legislators to participate on the committee as [ a nonvoting member ] nonvoting members when the committee is used as a rules advisory committee with regard to rules implementing legislation.

] Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that [ academic content standards for core subjects include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for responding to such causes and effects ] any revisions to the academic content standards for certain core subjects include standards that address the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to those causes and effects . Applies to academic content standards that are reviewed and revised on or after the effective date of the Act.

] [ Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to issue low-interest short-term loans for the construction of mixed income housing. ] Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to adopt rules for long-term financing of residential housing on or before January 1, 2027. Requires the department to report on recommendations for mixed income housing by November 15, 2025, and report on updates to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026. [ Establishes the Mixed Income Public Development Loan Fund to be continually appropriated to the department for those purposes. ] Reduces limitations on the mixed income housing that housing authorities may finance, develop, own, operate or manage. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes a community-based perinatal services access program to increase access to culturally specific and culturally competent community-based services during the perinatal period. Expands coverage in the medical assistance program and under health insurance policies for services provided by doulas, lactation counselors and lactation educators. Directs the Health Licensing Office to adopt rules to regulate the practice of lactation counselors and lactation educators.