Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 29)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3759

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act makes OHCS give grants for fees for moderate income housing developers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges. Appropriates moneys for grants. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3785

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act lets people convicted of a felony vote while in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Allows persons convicted of a felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated. Provides that a person does not forfeit and may not be deprived of the right to vote while incarcerated on a felony. Specifies that a person's residence is where the person resided prior to incarceration.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3832

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act tells DAS to give a grant to create a collaborative center in Harney County. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1161

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
4/18/25  
Engrossed
4/29/25  
Refer
4/29/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Enrolled
5/27/25  
Passed
6/5/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act tells OHA to issue licenses to let drivers transport organs quickly. Allows for lights and sirens. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to issue [licenses to enable a person to drive an organ transport vehicle.] a license to an organ procurement organization to operate an organ transport vehicle. Mandates requirements for drivers of organ transport vehicles. Requires organ procurement organizations licensed to operate organ transport vehicles to maintain prescribed minimum levels of insurance. Defines "organ transport vehicle." Provides exceptions allowing organ transport vehicles to use lights and sirens. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3762

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells BOLI to study issues related to salary thresholds for overtime pay. The Act directs BOLI to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues regarding the minimum salary threshold for exemptions from overtime pay. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3764

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells OHA to study funding for substance use services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020). 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 HB3767

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act allows cities or counties to impose rent control. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Repeals the prohibition on local rent control. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1169

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act lets people do pre-plea conditional discharge in more types of cases. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Expands eligibility for pre-plea conditional discharge to all offenses except Ballot Measure 11 (1994) crimes and driving under the influence of intoxicants. Removes the requirements of specialty court acceptance and district attorney consent. Allows a defendant to have more than one discharge and dismissal after fulfilling the probation agreement.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1163

Introduced
2/27/25  
Requires a person that makes or sells farm equipment to give items to an owner that are needed to look at, maintain or fix the equipment. Says what else the person must do to let the owner fix the equipment. Says that the state can fine the person for a violation of the Act. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available on fair and reasonable terms to a public body that owns or leases agricultural equipment any documentation, tool, part, embedded software, firmware, data or other device or implement for diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating the agricultural equipment that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider. Specifies additional obligations for the original equipment manufacturer. Permits the Attorney General in response to a complaint to make an investigative demand of an original equipment manufacturer that appears to have violated the Act. Specifies the contents of the investigative demand and the method of service. Subjects an original equipment manufacturer that violates the Act to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day of the violation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3897

Introduced
2/27/25  
Directs ODE to study the state of education in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3844

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes a new exemption against Oregon estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax in order to account for inflation in the calculation of a taxable estate. Adjusts the amount of an exemption based on inflation. Allows an estate to file an amended return seeking a refund based on the operation of the exemption. Applies to the estates of all decedents who die on or after January 1, 2020. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1143

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
Makes the PUC create a program to have each gas company create a thermal energy network pilot project. Makes each gas company apply to create a pilot project. Makes labor standards for certain covered projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4). [Digest: Makes the PUC create a program to have each gas company create a thermal energy network pilot project. Makes each gas company apply to create a pilot project. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a pilot program that allows each natural gas company to develop a utility-scale thermal energy network pilot project to provide heating and cooling services to customers. Requires each natural gas company to file a proposal and plan to develop a pilot project or an explanation for why the natural gas company is not submitting a proposal. Identifies criteria the commission shall take into consideration in evaluating a proposal. Establishes labor standards and reporting requirements for certain thermal energy network projects. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3777

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes Election Day a legal holiday. The Act sets the date for the legal holiday. The Act requires employers to provide eight hours of Election Day paid time off for their employees. The Act makes voting in person the normal method for voting. The Act requires voters to show picture ID when voting or requesting a ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Designates Election Day as a legal holiday on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year. Requires employers of employees to provide up to eight hours of paid Election Day leave. Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election. Allows an elector to request a ballot that may be voted by mail if the elector is unable to vote in person on the date of the election. Retains vote by mail as the primary method for conducting elections for military and overseas electors and for electors who have a mailing address outside of Oregon. Requires electors to present valid government-issued identification when appearing in-person to vote or when requesting a ballot be sent by mail. Requires all ballots to be returned by the date of an election. Removes a requirement that the state pay postage for ballots returned by mail.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3855

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells an agency to study a topic about agriculture. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study the regulation of agriculture. Directs the department to report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3821

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act would require a study of the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon. A report will be due by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.