Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 162)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB772

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
The Act creates a scholarship program for Indian health students. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Establishes the Indian Health Scholarship Program to provide free tuition and fees for qualifying Indian health profession students in exchange for the student's commitment to work at a tribal service site after graduation. Appropriates moneys for the 2025-2027 biennium to the Oregon Health and Science University for the purpose of administering the Indian Health Scholarship Program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB330

Introduced
1/13/25  
Directs the PUC to adopt standards to require that power lines be placed underground. Provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt standards requiring the underground placement of electric power lines. Provides for exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB74

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/16/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Enrolled
5/19/25  
Passed
5/27/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
This Act makes changes to how DSL can find the state's interest in waterways that are navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: This Act tells the DSL to study how to determine that a waterway is navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).] [Requires the Department of State Lands to study determinations of navigability on Oregon waterways. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Authorizes the Department of State Lands to find in a navigability determination draft report that the state's interest in the waterway extends to the current submerged and submersible lands within the waterway. Authorizes the department to negotiate with property owners affected by the finding and convey mineral and geothermal resource rights in a negotiated exchange of deeds. Requires the department to determine the state's interest in portions of the waterway according to principles of accretion and avulsion if the department is unable to reach an agreement with affected property owners.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3141

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
4/30/25  
Passed
5/8/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
The Act makes the third Tuesday of March of each year Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). [Digest: The Act makes October 12 of each year Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Designates [October 12] the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3224

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Passed
6/11/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
The Act tells DHS to study some aspects of background checks and make reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to study statutes about background checks and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).] Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks[,] under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026. Requires the department to study options for providing that a person does not need to undergo another background check conducted by a state agency for certain purposes if the person has already passed a background check conducted by a state agency in the previous 12 months. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than June 30, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB21

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes a new tax credit for employment of foster children or former foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to a taxpayer that employs a foster child or a former foster child. 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2890

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act allows the OIC to give grants for economic development in rural areas of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic development in rural areas of this state. Authorizes the council to provide monetary awards to the winners of contests that are designed to attract invention, innovative and entrepreneurial solutions and opportunities in rural areas of this state. Establishes the Oregon Fund for Rural Small Business Development. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the council to implement the grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3099

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/31/25  
The Act would give funds to the twelve economic development districts in this state so they can get federal matching grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Allocates lottery moneys for distribution to the economic development districts in Oregon to be used to receive federal matching grants awarded by the United States Economic Development Administration. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB468

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes changes to laws regarding noncompetes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Provides that a noncompetition agreement is void and unenforceable if entered into with an employee who is a health professional.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2806

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/17/25  
Refer
2/17/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Passed
6/26/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act allows an agency to increase certain license fees. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Makes permanent the authority of the State Department of Agriculture to annually increase license fees for commercial weighing or measuring instruments by up to three percent, subject to certain maximum limits. Authorizes the department to increase the license fees by a certain additional percentage for two fiscal years.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB20

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
The Act creates a new program for people with disabilities to have a job and also get Medicaid. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources. Allows consideration of income when determining cost-sharing for the program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5033

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Enrolled
6/12/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act approves agency fees. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Approves certain new or increased fees adopted by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5003

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/16/25  
Passed
6/26/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Commission for the Blind for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the commission. Limits biennial expenditures by the commission from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HJR2

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure would change the rules for when state government must pay for local mandates. Requires voter approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to change the requirements governing when the State of Oregon must appropriate or allocate sufficient moneys to pay for new or newly expanded programs that state laws, rules or orders require local governments to provide. Expands the definition of "local government" to include special districts. Eliminates some exceptions to required state funding, including an exception when the Legislative Assembly enacts the mandate by at least a three-fifths majority vote. Establishes new exceptions for programs and expansions that enhance public meeting or public record transparency or that permit new protections, rights, benefits or programs governing the employment status of local government employees, retirees or local government employee organizations to be adopted without corresponding funding. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3002

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes the Task Force on Data Modernization and tells the task force to make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Establishes the Task Force on Data Modernization and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.