Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 199)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3023

Introduced
1/13/25  
Certain horse racing companies pay a fee to the ORC. Currently, a portion of the fee goes to the General Fund. The Act removes the requirement to transfer money to the General Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.4). Removes requirement that the Oregon Racing Commission transfer certain fees related to Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs to the General Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB760

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes new rules about fire safety systems in public buildings. Sets penalties. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the owner of a public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in the public building. Specifies qualifications for inspectors. Requires an inspector to issue a certificate of compliance if the public building complies with the applicable standards or to issue a deficiency report if the public building does not comply. Specifies a time period within which the public building owner must return the public building to compliance. Directs a building owner that receives public moneys for the purpose of replacing or repairing fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems to require a contractor to provide certain benefits to workers in connection with an installation or repair of equipment that fails an inspection or test or is otherwise deficient. Punishes violation of the Act with a civil penalty equivalent to five cents for each square foot of occupied space in the public building. Authorizes additional civil penalties for a continuing failure to comply. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2668

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Enrolled
5/21/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act says that private persons who help look for a missing person must first tell certain things to the family of the missing person and to the county sheriff. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB624

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that groups that get money from the state must report on how they spent the money and on any political contributions they made. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of the Legislative Assembly. Directs state agencies to notify recipients of the requirements of the Act. Requires persons required to file reports under the Act to disclose amounts and recipients of political contributions made within a specified time frame. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2711

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would pay UI benefits to gig workers when an emergency is declared in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Provides a worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during a state of emergency declared by the Governor to unemployed independent contractors on terms similar to the terms under which employees receive regular benefits. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2172

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act extends to people with concealed handgun licenses from some other states the same legal status as a person with an Oregon CHL. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2). Directs the Department of State Police to create and maintain a list of states that recognize Oregon concealed handgun licenses and require a demonstration of handgun competency to obtain a license that is similar to the requirement in Oregon. Provides persons licensed to a carry concealed handgun in states on the department list with the protections provided to persons with Oregon concealed handgun licenses. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3080

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
The Act expands the list of people who can make health care decisions for a person who is not able to do so. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Modifies provisions regarding who can act as a health care representative for an incapacitated person who has not appointed a health care representative or does not have an advance directive.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB43

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act requires the DEQ to study waste management. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study waste management. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB807

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Engrossed
6/23/25  
Refer
6/23/25  
Report Pass
6/25/25  
Enrolled
6/26/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
Allows the Adjutant General to pay a bonus to a member of the Oregon National Guard who reenlists or extends their service. Requires a member to repay a bonus if the member fails to meet the terms agreed to for the bonus. Provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Authorizes the Adjutant General to pay a reenlistment or retention bonus to a member of the Oregon National Guard. Requires a member to repay the bonus if the member fails to complete the period of service or conditions agreed to in exchange for the bonus. Provides for exceptions. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2721

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would allow a city or county to impose a public transit surcharge on top of any parking fine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes a city or county to impose a public transit incentive surcharge on the amount of any fine for violation of the city's or county's motor vehicle parking code.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB741

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/18/25  
Engrossed
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Enrolled
5/21/25  
Passed
6/3/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act tells DHS to make a report about payment to people who run foster homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to adopt a compensation rate structure for foster parents. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] [Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt a rate structure for foster parent compensation.] Directs the Department of Human Services to report each even-numbered year to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means about compensation to individuals who maintain a foster home or to child caring agencies that authorize proctor foster homes. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB111

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/13/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Refer
6/17/25  
Report Pass
6/20/25  
The Act extends the sunset for the BAIT and allows tax overpayments to be applied to subsequent tax year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). [Digest: The Act extends the sunset for the BAIT and the related tax credit and modifies provisions of the tax and credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).] Extends the sunsets for the pass-through business alternative income tax and the related personal income tax credit. [Allows trusts to be members of participating pass-through entities. Allows members of participating entities to opt out of the election to participate.] Provides that an overpayment of tax may be applied to a subsequent tax year payment. Applies to [tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2028] overpayments made before January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB529

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/31/25  
The Act makes changes to laws about certain health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Directs the Oregon Health Authority [and coordinated care organizations] to contract directly with [traditional health workers,] community health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients. Directs the authority to establish comprehensive billing codes for traditional health workers and community health registered nurses. Directs the authority to modify the requirements for the supervision of traditional health workers. Directs the authority to adopt requirements for the regulation of community health registered nurses. Directs a coordinated care organization to inform community health registered nurses and community-based organizations that provide health care services through traditional health workers or community health registered nurses about the process for requesting to contract with the coordinated care organization as an in-network provider and directs a coordinated care organization to respond to a request to contract within 90 days. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB340

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells an insurer in some cases not to raise the price of a policy of fire insurance by more than three percent each year or cancel the policy. The cases are if the policy holder lives near wild land or works at farming, logging, mining or similar work. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Prohibits an insurer from canceling fire insurance policies, or raising policy premiums by more than three percent, if an insured's property is located within the wildland-urban interface or the insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction. Specifies exceptions. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine by rule how to measure employment or economic or business activity for the purposes of qualifying for limitations on cancellations and policy increases. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2474

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes when minors are the victims of some crimes. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Adds a manner of committing unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Provides that sexual abuse in the second degree is a level eight offense on the sentencing guidelines when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Increases the victim age below which assault and strangulation constitute felony offenses. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.