Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 161)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2597

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
The Act tells OHA to increase the rate at which dental care organizations are reimbursed. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse dental care organizations for dental services provided to medical assistance recipients at a rate no less than 59.8 percent of the average rate paid by insurers nationwide. Directs the authority to annually review and revise the rates. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2489

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Court Administrator to look at civil proceedings and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the State Court Administrator to study civil proceedings 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB298

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would have LRO study tax incentives for energy development, storage and transmission in this state. The Act would require a report to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study tax incentives for energy development, storage and transmission in Oregon. Directs the officer to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB5530

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/27/25  
Engrossed
6/27/25  
Refer
6/27/25  
Report Pass
6/27/25  
Enrolled
6/27/25  
Passed
8/7/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act makes a budget for certain lottery moneys and for moneys in certain accounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Maintains and reserves lottery revenues available to benefit public purposes during the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, in the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund. Allocates moneys from the fund for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a process for quarterly allocations of moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund and the Veterans' Services Fund. Allocates moneys from the Veterans' Services Fund for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Directs the distribution of moneys from the Criminal Fine Account. Directs the Department of Revenue to establish a process for the distributions. Directs the distribution of moneys from the Oregon Marijuana Account. Directs the distribution of moneys from the Fund for Student Success. Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to transfer certain amounts from the Tobacco Settlement Funds Account for certain purposes. Declares an emergency, effective [July 1, 2025] on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2220

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes OHA do a study on hospitals and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2139

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
This Act makes OHCS provide grants to Indian tribes for housing and homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [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.] provide grants to eligible, federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to address housing and homelessness prevention within the tribal community. Establishes the Tribal Housing Grant Fund for such purposes. Appropriates moneys to the fund. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3178

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
Sets out rules a seller must follow when making a sale or lease of a motor vehicle that involves installment payments. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires a seller in a motor vehicle transaction that involves a retail installment contract or lease agreement to make a good faith effort to sell the retail installment contract or lease agreement to a lender on the exact terms that the seller and buyer negotiated. Requires the seller to undertake certain actions if the lender does not agree to buy the retail installment contract or lease agreement within 10 calendar days after the buyer takes possession of the motor vehicle. Prohibits the seller from selling or paying off a loan balance for any trade-in vehicle that is part of the transaction before receiving a lender's final approval of funding. Specifies the liabilities a seller has for failing to comply with the prohibitions. Requires the seller to provide the buyer with certain disclosures before concluding the transaction. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB848

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates a DUII task force. The Act says that moneys in a DUII fund may be used to pay for screenings and DUII education programs for those who are indigent. The Act says that a person who is in a DUII diversion program but who lives out of state may get help for drug treatment out of state. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.9). Creates a task force on driving while under the influence of intoxicants. Provides that moneys in the Intoxicated Driver Program Fund may be used to pay for screenings and driving while under the influence of intoxicants education programs for indigent defendants. Allows a person who is participating in a diversion program for driving while under the influence of intoxicants and who is not a resident of Oregon to complete treatment in another jurisdiction. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2946

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act requires a fiscal audit of ODOT. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB556

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes some laws about marijuana and says that ODA can say what hemp means in rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Allows a marijuana producer, marijuana wholesaler, marijuana processor or marijuana retailer to use a motion detection camera system at a licensed premises. Directs the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to establish by rule an industrial hemp endorsement for marijuana producers. Prohibits the commission from requiring physical tags or other identifiers on certain marijuana plants. Allows a marijuana item transport vehicle to use a digital manifest and edit the manifest during transport. Allows the State Department of Agriculture to define "industrial hemp" by rule. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Allows a marijuana licensee to engage in the interstate commerce of industrial hemp and marijuana. Becomes operative if federal law or the United States Department of Justice allow or tolerate the interstate commerce of industrial hemp or marijuana. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB476

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Engrossed
6/23/25  
Refer
6/23/25  
Report Pass
6/26/25  
Enrolled
6/26/25  
Passed
7/31/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act says staff of licensing boards must have culturally responsive training. The Act also lets the OMB give a doctor who was trained in another country a license to be a doctor in this state under some conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals. Allows the Oregon Medical Board to issue a provisional license to a qualified internationally trained physician. Requires the holder of a provisional license to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician for four years prior to applying for full licensure. Directs the board to submit a report every odd-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care on the provisional licensure of internationally trained physicians. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2202

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study certain chapters of statutes. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study redundancies in the provisions of ORS chapters 414 and 430. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB121

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
The Act extends the sunset for the earned income tax credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Extends the sunset for the earned income tax credit.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB258

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OPDC to do a study on public defense. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to study best practices to improve the provision of public defense services within this state, and 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3007

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Engrossed
4/16/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Enrolled
5/27/25  
Passed
6/9/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
Requires schools to implement a plan when a student has a brain injury. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.