Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 26)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2709

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says a person may not get a fee from a resident to cover the resident's car with an extended warranty if the person knows that the car does not qualify for the warranty. Tells the person to ask for enough information to decide whether the car qualifies. Says that the person must cover the car even if it doesn't qualify if the person takes a fee from the resident. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Prohibits a warrantor from accepting a fee from a resident for an extended warranty unless the warrantor knows that the resident's motor vehicle qualifies for coverage under the extended warranty. Requires the warrantor to request and obtain information needed to assess whether the motor vehicle qualifies for coverage. Requires a warrantor to provide coverage under an extended warranty for a motor vehicle that does not qualify for coverage if the warrantor accepted a fee to provide the extended warranty. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2695

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Enrolled
5/20/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act directs the OHSU board to include certain people in the process to hire a president. The Act directs the board to let campus union representatives talk to the board. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors to include specified individuals in the search and hiring committees for a president of the university. Requires the board to allow a representative from campus labor organizations to communicate with the board upon the representative's request.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2271

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Refer
6/20/25  
Report Pass
6/25/25  
Enrolled
6/25/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act would give a credit off their UI taxes to employers whose rate for 2025 is less than their rate for the prior year by at least two and a half percentage points. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). [Digest: The Act would give a credit against UI taxes to employers whose rate for 2025 is less than their rate for the prior year by at least three percentage points. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] Provides a credit against an employer's unemployment insurance taxes for calendar year 2025 [years 2025, 2026 and 2027] if the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2025 is at least [three] 2.5 percentage points less than the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2024.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB770

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would repeal the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2500

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OHA to study changes to laws on substance use. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication. 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2762

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says it is an offense to sleep in danger zone near the road. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.4). Creates the offense of sleeping in a highway danger zone. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB5549

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to _____ 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 _______. Limits biennial expenditures from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3210

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would give federal funds marked for small business to Lit Motors, Inc., to fund its making of electric vehicles in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys available through the federal State Small Business Credit Initiative to Lit Motors, Inc., to fund the manufacture of electric vehicles in Oregon, with attendant economic benefits. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB800

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act requires people who seek licenses to show tax compliance. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Expands provisions requiring tax compliance as a condition of receiving a license to conduct a business, trade or profession or of entering into a contract with a state agency or political subdivision. Requires licensees and contractors to provide a tax compliance certificate from the Department of Revenue, unless a certain compliance rate is demonstrated by holders of the type of license. Applies to licenses issued, reissued, reinstated or renewed and contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB634

Introduced
1/13/25  
Specifies that hydropower may be used to comply with an RPS. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Specifies that electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5031

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/19/25  
Refer
6/19/25  
Report Pass
6/20/25  
Enrolled
6/23/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Public Defense Commission for certain 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. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB508

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells an insurer that it may not use a device or technology to track where a person is when the person is driving. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to information that tracks or reveals the geographic location of an insured during any time in which the insured is occupying or operating a motor vehicle that the motor vehicle liability insurance policy covers. Specifies exceptions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2421

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act adds private higher learning schools to the direct admissions program created by HECC. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Includes [independent institutions] certain private post-secondary institutions in the direct admissions program established by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2037

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells certain entities to designate sports by sex. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.35). Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex. Prohibits biological males from participating in athletic competitions or extracurricular sports designated for biological females. Requires academic entities to designate bathrooms and locker rooms for exclusive use by either persons of the male biological sex or persons of the female biological sex. Except as provided under written policies for coaches, trainers and other authorized persons, prohibits persons of the male biological sex from entering or using bathrooms or locker rooms designated for use by, or in use by, persons of the female biological sex and prohibits persons of the female biological sex from entering or using bathrooms or locker rooms designated for use by, or in use by, persons of the male biological sex. Provides causes of action for students, post-secondary institutions of education and school districts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3170

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
The Act makes changes to laws about networks that help people prepare for and respond to disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services for providing grants for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.