Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 217)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3288

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period. Requires the director to report the findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3286

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act tells ODEM to help each county develop local groups to help in emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a liaison for each county to foster development of county-level organizations or networks to address emergency prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB930

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act brings back the tax credit for making new forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Reinstates the tax credit for reforestation. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3263

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act tells an agency to create a specific area in which trees must be replanted. The Act creates a task force. The Act ends the task force a while later and creates an advisory board. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.2). Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2035. Establishes the Task Force on the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Establishes the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink Advisory Board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB891

Introduced
1/21/25  
Creates a program that transfers money to a student to pay for qualified school expenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to students of this state. Restricts the percentage of students from each school district who may enroll in the program for the first 10 years. Establishes the Department of Education Empowerment Account. Continuously appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for payment of the department's expenses under the program. Establishes the Treasurer Empowerment Account. Continuously appropriates moneys to the State Treasurer for payment of the treasurer's expenses under the program. Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Account within the State School Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for the purpose of making transfers under the program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3321

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Engrossed
6/24/25  
Refer
6/24/25  
Report Pass
6/25/25  
Enrolled
6/25/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
The Act tells the ADPC to create a statewide strategy for preventing substance use. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to develop and implement plans, including a statewide primary prevention strategy, that address the entire youth continuum of care and are designed to prevent the onset of substance use. Requires the commission to report to the Legislative Assembly on the commission's findings and recommendations no later than September 15, 2026. Directs the commission, in collaboration with the Oregon Health and Science University, to provide education and technical assistance to providers of youth substance use disorder treatment and early intervention.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3318

Introduced
1/21/25  
This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that break some laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3327

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act tells LPRO to do a study on laws affecting local governments. The Act tells LPRO to report on its study. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study legislation affecting local governments. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB915

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Refer
4/18/25  
The Act tells DHS that a certain DHS program must handle child abuse reports involving certain children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Director of Human Services to ensure that standards and procedures for the assessment and investigation of reports of child abuse committed by certain persons are investigated by a department program that specializes in training, investigations and safety. Applies to assessments and investigations pending or commenced on or after July 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3287

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act would allow some veterans and the surviving spouses of some veterans to not pay some taxes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Grants a higher property tax exemption for the property of veterans with disabilities. Grants an exemption for a veteran's surviving spouse who remains unmarried. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB883

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act would prevent state agencies from making people get a COVID-19 vaccine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits a state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB925

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act says that the OTC may not toll I-205. (Flesch Readability Score: 100). Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3296

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act tells ODOT to conduct a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to the appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3255

Introduced
1/21/25  
Says that an online business must have a telephone number and electronic mail address to hear and respond to customer concerns. Lets the Secretary of State check to see if the business obeys the requirement and to fine a business that does not obey. Says that the business can be barred from this state if it fails to comply again and again. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the online business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response. Permits the Secretary of State to test compliance with the Act and to impose civil penalties for a failure to comply or to administratively dissolve an online business or revoke the online business's authority to transact business in this state if the Secretary of State determines that the failure to comply is intentional, willful and repeated.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3248

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act places limits and duties on health care providers who perform abortions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency. Defines "abortion" and "health care provider." Prohibits the abortion of an unborn child with a probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks, except in the case of a medical emergency, rape or incest. Requires that an abortion of an unborn child with probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks be performed or induced in specified facilities and with specific safeguards in place. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care provider for violations. Requires a health care provider who performs or induces, or attempts to perform or induce, an abortion to file a report with the Oregon Health Authority. Requires the authority to publish annually statistics relating to abortion. Allows specified persons to bring a cause of action for actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief against a health care provider for violations. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.