Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 34)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3895

Introduced
2/27/25  
Makes the PUC do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Public Utility Commission to study utilities. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1149

Introduced
2/27/25  
Tells a state agency to do a study on insurance for some types of rural co-ops. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance for rural electric cooperatives. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to insurance not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3776

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells DAS to study some ways agencies with remote employees can use office space. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study options for agencies with remote work agreements to consolidate office space with other agencies and sell or lease unoccupied office space in state buildings. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public administration no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SCR26

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Honors the ways Oregon and Taiwan have worked together over the years. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Reaffirms the State of Oregon's commitment to its relationship with Taiwan.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1122

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
5/8/25  
Enrolled
5/15/25  
Passed
5/27/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act changes how and when sex offenders are assessed for risk. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). [Digest: The Act changes how and when sex offenders are assessed for risk. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8).] Provides that the sex offender risk assessment methodology used to classify sex offenders into risk levels may exclusively consider a sex offender's risk of reoffending at the time of release, sentencing or discharge. Authorizes a classifying entity to reassess or reclassify a person after the commission of a new sexually motivated act or sex crime. Authorizes the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to reassess or reclassify specified persons in accordance with the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3755

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act would grant a tax break for the owner-occupied homes of people who are at least 65 years old, have resided in the home for at least 10 years and have a household income of not more than $150,000 a year. The Act would increase the tax break by five percentage points each year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.0). Creates a property tax exemption for the owner-occupied principal dwelling of seniors who are at least 65 years of age, have resided in the dwelling for at least 10 years and have a household income not greater than $150,000 per year. Provides an exemption of the assessed value of the homestead in annually increasing increments of five percentage points. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1147

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act creates a process for victims of some crimes to request permanent restraining orders. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.2). Directs the court, at a victim's request, to enter an order at sentencing permanently restraining the defendant from contacting the victim when the defendant is convicted of specified crimes. Creates a process by which a victim of a crime in which judgment was previously entered can request an order permanently restraining the defendant from contacting the victim. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3780

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act takes newspaper out of some recycling laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Removes newspaper from packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware producer responsibility laws. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3760

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act says that HLO can give a license as a provisional licensed art therapist. The Act also says that other art therapists have to do two years of supervised mental health practice before they can get a license. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist. Requires an applicant for a license as a licensed art therapist or licensed certified art therapist to complete two years of supervised mental health practice. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3837

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
The Act would grant funds to cities and Indian tribes with high poverty rates to help them reduce poverty. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for the purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans. Sunsets on January 2, [2028] 2030. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3814

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/14/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
This Act allows the EQC and DEQ to allow for a mixing zone in a permit for a seafood processor. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3856

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
The Act makes a new personal income tax to fund ODFW and makes a new tax credit for people who buy fishing and hunting permits. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Imposes additional personal income tax. Adjusts the rate of the tax annually for inflation. Transfers the proceeds of the new income tax, less the amount of the new income tax credits allowed to taxpayers, to the State Wildlife Fund. Directs specific percentages of the proceeds to various programs of the State Department of Fish and Wildlife. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Creates a credit against personal income taxes for the purchase of a license, tag or permit under the wildlife laws. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3808

Introduced
2/27/25  
Tells TSPC to make standards for people who help deafblind students and gives ODE money to send to ESDs and school districts to hire and keep those people. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.6). Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt rules related to the certification of deafblind interveners. Directs the Department of Education to establish a program to increase the number of certified deafblind interveners who are employed in the education service districts and school districts of this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3877

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act makes DCBS license vacation and rental homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a rental licensing program for the annual licensing of dwelling units for rental or vacation occupancy. Authorizes the department to assess licensing fees and penalties. Requires dismissal of eviction for units not licensed. Requires the department to report annually on aggregate data and to provide a copy of the report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing. Requires the department to provide no-cost education courses to licensees. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. Establishes the Residential Licensing Account for the licensing program. Appropriates moneys to the account.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3828

Introduced
2/27/25  
Tells a state agency to study what rules might work to protect personal data. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study the effects of regulating sensitive data. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to consumer protection no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.