Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 5)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1138

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act would make new laws about a workforce standards board for some workers in the home and community-based services sector. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board. Prescribes the duties of the board. Directs the board to establish minimum working standards for the home and community-based services workforce. Requires the board to submit a written report to the Legislative Assembly regarding any adopted standard that is anticipated to impact the state budget. Provides that any such standard must be ratified by the Legislative Assembly before taking effect. Provides remedies for allegations of violations of the minimum standards established by the board. Requires the board to conduct a biennial comprehensive review, including a labor market analysis to inform the board's decisions to adopt new minimum standards or revise existing standards. Permits the board to establish uniform training standards for the home and community-based services workforce and to establish a process by rule for certifying worker organizations to provide the training to workers. Requires the board to submit a biennial report to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly summarizing the results of the comprehensive review and any actions taken by the board in the prior biennium.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3756

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act creates the Task Force on Electromagnetic Weapons to study the usage of those kinds of weapons in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Establishes the Task Force on Electromagnetic Weapons to study the usage of electromagnetic weapons in this state and identify gaps in Oregon law that need to be revised to address such usage. Requires the task force to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than December 1, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3783

Introduced
2/27/25  
Makes ODOE do a study on energy and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy. Directs the department 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 SB1150

Introduced
2/27/25  
Tells a state agency to do a study on insurance. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance. 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 HB3900

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act says a taxpayer must pay income tax on interest paid on a loan for a second or third or additional home. The Act says some taxpayers must pay income tax on some or all interest paid on loans for a principal home. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, the mortgage interest deduction for a residence other than the taxpayer's principal residence, unless the taxpayer sells the residence or actively markets the residence for sale. Phases out the allowable deduction for the interest for a principal residence based upon income. Disallows a deduction for a principal residence above the threshold income amount. Establishes the Oregon Housing Opportunity Account. Transfers an amount equal to the estimated increase in revenue attributable to restrictions on the deduction of mortgage interest to the account. Applies to tax years beginning 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 House Bill HB3908

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
The Act increases the percentage of voters in the state required for a party to be a major party. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Increases the party registration requirement to be a major political party in this state from five percent to 10 percent. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3863

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/7/25  
Enrolled
5/13/25  
Passed
5/22/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
Makes the PUC set a cap at no less than 10 MWs for the use of standard terms and conditions for buying power from a qualifying facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Public Utility Commission to establish an eligibility cap at no less than 10 megawatts for the use of standard avoided costs rates and contracts for the purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3795

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
The Act tells DHS to submit an annual report about a grant program. The Act also makes changes to when DHS must appoint a CIRT. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to submit an annual report about a grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).] Directs the Department of Human Services to submit an annual report to the Legislative Assembly about a grant program that provides tax preparation assistance to low-income individuals. Modifies provisions regarding appointment of Critical Incident Review Teams.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3812

Introduced
2/27/25  
Changes the requirements for health services plans in schools and for school nursing services. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires school districts to develop, implement and annually update a health services plan for the students of the school district. Prescribes standards for the health services plans. Modifies the categories of students requiring school nursing services and the ratios for students in those categories. Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to offer professional development on school health services and apply any hours taken toward the renewal of an administrative license.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3825

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Engrossed
4/21/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act makes judgment remedies for some marijuana convictions in local courts expire. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Provides that judgment remedies for judgments of conviction in municipal and justice courts for the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana expire on the effective date of the Act. Provides that the expiration of judgment remedies for such convictions means that a person has complied with that portion of the sentence for purposes of expungement. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3909

Introduced
3/4/25  
Enacts laws to increase school choice. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district. Requires school districts to participate in open enrollment. Establishes a waiver process. Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a policy that provides for the establishment of education savings accounts for students to use for educational expenses. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB9

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
5/2/25  
Engrossed
5/7/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Enrolled
5/19/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act says that the DMV should prioritize drive tests offered in rural Oregon to folks who live in rural Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the field offices of the Department of Transportation located in rural counties to prioritize requests for drive tests when the request is from an applicant who lives in rural Oregon or within 50 miles of the field office.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR31

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/7/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Honors the life and memory of a beloved mentor and civil rights leader. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). In memoriam: Lyllye Reynolds-Parker, 1946-2024.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR30

Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Pays respect to Friends of Timberline for five decades of service to Timberline Lodge. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Recognizes and honors Friends of Timberline for five decades of exceptional service in preserving and celebrating the historic Timberline Lodge.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3911

Introduced
3/6/25  
This Act gives money to DAS to give money to a city to build a wastewater treatment plant. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of providing a grant to the City of Lakeside to construct a wastewater treatment facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.