Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 172)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3514

Introduced
2/6/25  
The Act directs a county clerk to publish a voters' pamphlet for certain elections. The Act directs a county clerk to publish an official tally of votes at least two times on the day of certain elections. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Requires the county clerk to publish a county voters' pamphlet for any primary and general election. Requires the county clerk to publish at least two unofficial tallies of votes on the day of each primary election and general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB996

Introduced
2/6/25  
Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors. Exempts the siting from the law that requires there to be a place for radioactive waste to be disposed of before a nuclear power plant may be sited in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3520

Introduced
2/6/25  
Makes a person that wants to build a building or structure near an interstate pipeline to give notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires a person that proposes to construct a building or structure located within 1,000 feet of an interstate pipeline to notify the Oregon Utility Notification Center. Prohibits a state agency or municipality from issuing a building permit for a building or structure unless the agency or municipality receives a copy of the notice and a copy of a reply from the owner or operator of the interstate pipeline. Requires an owner or operator of an interstate pipeline each year to provide contact information to the Oregon Utility Notification Center. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB991

Introduced
2/6/25  
The Act removes two bases for a worker to say no to a temp modified job without the loss of workers' comp benefits so that more such jobs qualify. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employment without losing temporary total disability benefits to increase possible modified employment placements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1001

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
The Act gives money to DAS for the Coast Community Health Center or another health care entity. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: The Act gives money to DAS for the Coast Community Health Center. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Coast Community Health Center, or a successor entity, to provide health care services and apprenticeships. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB984

Introduced
2/6/25  
This Act amends where battery-charged fences are allowed. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Allows battery-charged fences on properties not used as residences.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3515

Introduced
2/6/25  
The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of nonlethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB988

Introduced
2/6/25  
The Act prescribes the process for a parent or guardian to admit a child, with or without the child's consent, for certain treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Permits a child's parent or guardian to admit the child, with or without the child's consent, to an inpatient treatment facility or program licensed by the Oregon Health Authority or the Department of Human Services for certain mental, emotional or behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment. Requires an initial assessment of the child and periodic reviews supporting the necessity of inpatient treatment. Prohibits the facility or program from declining to admit the child solely based on the child's unwillingness to consent to admission. Provides a process for a child who is 14 years of age or older to request review of the admission decision. Directs the licensing agency of the facility or program to adopt rules for the review of admission decisions. Creates exceptions. Directs the department, in consultation with the authority, to make written materials available regarding resources for families seeking mental, emotional or behavioral health treatment, or substance use disorder treatment, for minor children.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB998

Introduced
2/6/25  
This Act makes the Governor choose the head of DEQ and makes the Senate approve the choice. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.0). Removes authority to appoint the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality from the Environmental Quality Commission and provides appointment authority to the Governor. Makes appointment subject to Senate confirmation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HJR15

Introduced
2/6/25  
The measure amends the Constitution. The measure says that anyone who is appointed to an office may not run for election to that office. The measure refers the amendment to a vote of the people at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to prohibit an individual who is appointed to fill a vacancy in office from being elected to that office. Specifies the offices to which the prohibition applies. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB993

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
3/17/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Enrolled
5/5/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
The Act lets police agencies release booking photos to licensed PIs. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Authorizes law enforcement agencies to release booking photos to licensed private investigators. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB999

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
The Act would change a definition with respect to laws about farmworker camps. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the definition of "farmworker camp" so that the relevant statutes apply to farmworker camps specifically in connection with workers who work on a seasonal or temporary basis.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3513

Introduced
2/6/25  
This Act tells the DEQ to study and make a report on solid waste incinerators. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study solid waste incinerators. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB987

Introduced
2/6/25  
The Act directs the CJC to raise the crime category of felon in possession of a firearm to 8. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify the crime of felon in possession of a firearm as crime category 8.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR17

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
3/7/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Honors Cambodian Americans who live in Oregon and the U.S. and all of the lives that have been lost in war and conflict in that part of Asia. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Recognizes and honors Cambodian Americans in Oregon and the United States and all those lost in the Cambodian Genocide.