Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 79)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB81

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act tells the OCAC to study and make a report on natural climate solutions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Oregon Climate Action Commission to study natural climate solutions. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB640

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes when minors are the victims of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Adds a manner of committing unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Provides that sexual abuse in the second degree is a level eight offense on the sentencing guidelines when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Increases the victim age below which assault and strangulation constitute felony offenses.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJM6

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure asks Congress to draft and ask states to o.k. a change to the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Urges Congress to propose for state ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution to require the federal government to operate under a balanced budget wherein federal government expenditures do not exceed federal government revenues.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB139

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Enrolled
5/21/25  
Passed
6/3/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
This Act lets sharps and waste pharmaceuticals be mixed in the same container, if some conditions are met. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Permits sharps and waste pharmaceuticals to be consolidated in a single container, subject to certain requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3145

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/28/25  
Refer
3/28/25  
Report Pass
6/25/25  
Engrossed
6/26/25  
Refer
6/26/25  
Report Pass
6/27/25  
Enrolled
6/27/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
This Act lets OHCS use LIFT money for prefab homes and makes OHCS hire a contractor to support the prefab home industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing. Requires the department to hire a contractor to support the factory-built housing industry. Requires the department to report on outcomes to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2027. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2072

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Refer
6/18/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
The Act would extend three taxes on the privilege of harvesting forest products and set the new tax rates. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Extends certain taxes on the privilege of harvesting merchantable forest products on forestlands. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3039

Introduced
1/13/25  
Directs ODE to study ways to increase summer and after school programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires the Department of Education to study methods for increasing the availability of summer and after-school academic and enrichment programs. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB5521

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Refer
6/18/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Enrolled
6/23/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/8/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts and certain federal funds, but excluding lottery funds and other federal funds, collected or received by the department. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from certain lottery moneys. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from certain federal funds. [Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Emergency Board for allocation to the department.] Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB786

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells colleges to give course credit to an incoming student who took part in certain programs while the student was in high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution. Requires the institution to award two or four academic credits to each student who participated in specified programs affiliated with national organizations. Prohibits an institution from requiring certain students to take an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution as a prerequisite for taking more advanced courses at the institution.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2863

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act exempts gain on the sale of certain property in a low-income census tract from tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows a subtraction from federal taxable income of the gain from the sale of opportunity zone property, defined as property in a low-income census tract developed for affordable housing and held for a stated period of time. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2268

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says that a person that offers or sells a health care cost sharing arrangement to a resident of this state must register with a state agency. Tells the person to submit a report to the agency each year. Tells the person what to say or not say to a resident in making an offer or a sale. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.2). Requires a person that advertises, solicits, markets, sells or offers a health care cost sharing arrangement in this state or enters into a health care cost sharing arrangement with a resident must register with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Specifies the contents required for the application. Requires registrants to file an annual report with the director and specifies the contents of the report. Requires certain disclosures in communications with residents. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful trade 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 HB2855

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells the DSP to create a public exchange area. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of State Police to establish public exchange locations with certain requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2832

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that veterans have to show proof that they can get special preference when they apply for government jobs. They can use any documents that show they qualify. If a public employer decides not to talk with a veteran about being hired for a job, they must write down why they made that choice. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Provides that a veteran must provide evidence of eligibility for veterans' preference in public employment at the time of application for a civil service position. Provides that evidence may include any documentation demonstrating preference eligibility. Modifies the law relating to interviews of veterans for vacant civil service positions. Provides that a public employer that does not interview a veteran must provide a written explanation of reasons for the decision.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2045

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act requires a court to order the removal of a trespasser at the land owner's request. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent. Requires law enforcement to execute the order. Provides for statutory damages for individuals harmed by wrongful use of the process.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB789

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Enrolled
6/13/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/2/25  
The Act says the Oregon Board of Psychology can make a person pay the board if the person gets in trouble with the board. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.6). Authorizes the Oregon Board of Psychology to assess costs associated with disciplinary action to the person against whom the disciplinary action is taken. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.