Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 57)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2823

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells a state agency that it can hire a lawyer to help with getting a patent for any invention someone makes while working or being a student at a public high school. Lets the agency share in or say it will not share in the ownership of the patent. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while employed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state. Permits the department to assume, assign, partake in or disclaim ownership of any patent that results from an invention under the terms of a contract or other agreement into which the department enters with faculty or staff, with students who have legal capacity to enter into contracts or with the legal guardians of students without legal capacity to enter into contracts and in accordance with rules the department adopts and other applicable law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3003

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Engrossed
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act makes changes to the data that DHS must put in its annual reports about foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Modifies the list of data that the Department of Human Services must include in its annual child welfare report.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2552

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates new laws for workplace violence prevention in health care settings. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. Requires subject entities to compile data concerning incidents of workplace violence and submit reports to the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to eligible entities for workplace violence prevention efforts. Establishes a timeline within which the authority must begin distributing funds to approved grant applicants. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3125

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates a task force related to rangeland wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Establishes the Task Force on Rangeland Wildfire Resilience and Risk Reduction. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2700

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells ODEM to make a registry of people who can help with emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to create and maintain a registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response. Requires that the registry be accessible to emergency management agencies and emergency program managers. Directs the department to establish procedures for communicating with appropriate entities to gather and update registry information.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB462

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act makes Business Oregon create a required course for land use planners. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to establish an education course for land use planners for local governments, special districts and state agencies. Requires completion of the course at least once every two years.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3225

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says what a doctor must do to be among the majority of the directors of, or to hold most of the shares of, a company that is formed to practice medicine. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Specifies qualifications for a physician who is among the majority of the shareholders or directors of a professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2621

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs the OJD to study options to make protective proceedings simpler in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Judicial Department to study options for simplifying protective proceedings in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2363

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs an agency to create a program related to elk damage. The Act establishes a fund for the program. The Act gives moneys to the agency for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish an elk damage prevention and compensation pilot program. Establishes the Elk Damage Prevention and Compensation Fund in the State Treasury. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for implementing the program. Sunsets the program and fund on January 2, 2031. Directs the State Department of Agriculture and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to report on the program to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources on or before September 15, 2029. Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture for implementing the program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. .
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2813

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
The Act creates a new fund related to ground water conservation. The Act puts money in the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.2). [Digest: The Act creates a new fund related to ground water conservation in Harney County. The Act puts money in the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3).] Establishes the [Harney] Groundwater Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Appropriates moneys for the [Harney] Groundwater Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2696

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would make clear that the laws for the storage of the personal property of the homeless apply when it is removed from a public camping site. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Specifies that the laws governing the storage of the personal property of homeless individuals applies to personal property removed from a public camping site. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB150

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/26/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Passed
6/16/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
Says that a person may not get money or an item of value for helping another person get a veteran's benefit except as federal or state law allows. Gives a person a right to sue another person for breaking the law. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Prohibits receiving compensation for performing certain services for or on behalf of an applicant or a claimant for a veteran's benefit except as provided in applicable federal or state law. Defines "unreasonable fee" and prohibits receiving unreasonable fees for the services. Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct outreach and education concerning free services that are available to assist veterans in applying for benefits. 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 HB3231

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that the passenger rail plan needs to include ways to fix and improve train tracks and other important parts. It also has to help trains carry more passengers. The Department of Transportation must give updates on how the plan is going by December 31 every two years. All reports about passenger trains will be combined into one part of the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the passenger rail plan to include strategies for upgrading and improving railroad track, strategies related to infrastructure and boosting capacity and information about federal grants sought and received. Requires the Department of Transportation to provide status updates on the plan no later than December 31 of each even-numbered year. Consolidates reports on passenger rail into one section of law. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2761

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells ODEM to give grants to counties to hire staff to manage disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to provide grants to counties to create and fill county-level disaster mitigation and recovery manager positions. Specifies the duties of a disaster mitigation and recovery manager. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB5538

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Refer
6/17/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Enrolled
6/24/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of the State Fire Marshal 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 the Department of the State Fire Marshal. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.