Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 41)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB937

Introduced
1/23/25  
The Act tells DHS to make an annual distribution to OFYC to support foster youth. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Department of Human Services to make an annual distribution to the Oregon Foster Youth Connection for foster youth advocacy and support. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB940

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
This Act expands the meaning of "area zoned for rural residential use" for land use planning. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which is sited certain nonfarm dwellings. Subjects such lands to other land use planning requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB939

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
The Act tells ODEM to run a program to issue grants to nonprofits to improve their security. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a program to issue grants to certain nonprofit organizations for security enhancements. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3435

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Makes school meals available at no cost. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income. Provides exceptions. Requires school districts that make breakfast accessible at a school site to make breakfast accessible at the school site after the beginning of the day. Provides exceptions. Prescribes nutrition standards for reimbursable meals that are paid for by state sources. Directs the Department of Education to apply for statewide participation in federal programs and projects that expand the availability of free or reduced price meals. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education from the General Fund for the purposes of paying any costs owed by parents or guardians for costs previously incurred for a reimbursable meal and assisting school districts in purchasing or upgrading equipment necessary to comply with the expanded provision of free lunches and breakfasts. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3404

Introduced
1/28/25  
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 Senate Bill SB955

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act would grant a specially assessed property tax value for the homes of veterans and their spouses who outlive them. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of veterans and surviving spouses of veterans. Disqualifies the residence for the special assessment on the death of the veteran, remarriage of the surviving spouse or sale of the residence. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3345

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act says that taxis and rideshare vehicles must have plates that have red letters and numbers. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires taxis and rideshare vehicles to have rideshare plates that have cherry red lettering and numbering. Creates the offense of failure to display rideshare plates. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3391

Introduced
1/28/25  
Tells the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. Directs the Secretary of State to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to elections not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3405

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3440

Introduced
1/28/25  
Prohibits a student in third grade from going into the next grade if the student does not meet language arts standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Prohibits a school district from promoting a student in the third grade to the next grade level if the student does not demonstrate grade-level proficiency on a statewide assessment in language arts. Provides exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3380

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
The Act makes a tax credit bigger for some EMS providers and keeps the tax credit in the law until the year 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year. Requires the Office of Rural Health to annually submit to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care and to the Emergency Medical Services Program a report that includes the number of taxpayers eligible for the tax credit. Extends the tax credit sunset to January 1, 2030.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3422

Introduced
1/28/25  
Adds to the standards that must be met for EFSC to take an exception to a planning goal for a proposed energy facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility. Applies to exceptions taken on or after the effective date of this Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3352

Introduced
1/28/25  
This Act tells the DSL to make a pilot program for owners of land to restore salmon habitat. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins. Establishes the Salmon Credit Trust Fund. Directs the Department of State Lands and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to consult with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to develop or identify an existing programmatic general permit to authorize restoration activities under the pilot program. Becomes operative on the date that a programmatic general permit is established. Provides that the Department of State Lands may not approve a salmon credit project on or after January 2 of the sixth year following the establishment of a programmatic general permit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3408

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB953

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Creates a task force to establish best practices to help a child with a disability begin public school. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Establishes the Task Force on Transitions into Kindergarten. Directs the task force to make recommendations about best practices for supporting the transition into kindergarten of children with a disability. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026.