Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 9)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3937

Introduced
3/18/25  
The Act would reduce the number of hours that a notice must be posted before homeless people may be removed from an established camping site. The Act would say when property left behind shall be disposed of or collected. The Act would apply only to small cities. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.5). Applies to cities that have a population of 50,000 or less. Reduces the number of hours that notice must be posted before removing homeless individuals from an established camping site. Provides circumstances in which property left at an established camping site after the notice period shall be disposed of or collected. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3936

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
5/12/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/15/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Enrolled
6/12/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
Bans the use of AI on state assets if the AI is developed or owned by a covered vendor. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.6). [Digest: Bans the use of AI on state assets if the AI is owned or developed by a foreign corporate entity. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).] Prohibits any hardware, software or service that uses artificial intelligence from being installed or downloaded onto or used or accessed by state information technology assets if the artificial intelligence is developed or owned by a [corporate entity that is incorporated or registered under the laws of a foreign country] covered vendor. Provides for exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3934

Introduced
3/18/25  
The Act would let a surviving spouse claim the unused amount of the first spouse's estate tax exclusion. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent. Applies to estates of decedents who die 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 Senate Bill SB1192

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act concerns making power from water under a water right. The Act provides that a person cannot be banned from using the water right under certain circumstances. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Provides that the Water Resources Director may not forcibly convert a hydroelectric water right whose holder has ceased generating electricity on instruction from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission if certain other criteria are met.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3948

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act makes it a worse crime to fly a drone over a correctional facility. The Act says that the court can take away the drone upon conviction. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.7). Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility. Makes the crime punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Provides that, upon conviction, the court shall order that the unmanned aircraft system be forfeited. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1193

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
The Act allows a higher learning school to pay a student athlete for use of the student's NIL. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Permits a post-secondary institution of education to provide compensation to a student athlete for use of the student athlete's name, image, likeness or athletic reputation. Requires a written contract for compensation to a student athlete who is a minor by a post-secondary institution of education to include the written consent of the parent or guardian of the student athlete. Prohibits an athletic association, conference or organization from prohibiting a post-secondary institution of education from providing compensation to a student athlete.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3942

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
4/14/25  
Engrossed
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Report Pass
6/23/25  
Enrolled
6/24/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
Tells OHA to create a fast process for the issuance of licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: Tells OHA and DHS to create a fast process for issuing licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).] Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age. Allows a person or governmental unit to use [an] the expedited licensure process to [operate a health care facility, if the license is] apply for a license to operate a health care facility that is in the same physical location and of the same type as a health care facility that previously operated at the location and the previously operated health care facility was closed within the last [24] 60 months voluntarily or due to financial hardship. Allows an applicant to be issued a provisional license to operate the health care facility while the applicant's application is being processed and reviewed. Makes a person or governmental unit ineligible to use the expedited licensure process if the person or governmental unit voluntarily surrendered a license to operate a health care facility under certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3949

Introduced
3/20/25  
Changes the terms of a contract between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prescribes requirements related to contracts entered into between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks and instructional materials.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1194

Introduced
3/20/25  
This Act stops the EQC and the DEQ from making waste water treatment plants meet certain criteria. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from requiring municipally owned treatment works from meeting certain criteria for pollutants and temperature for discharges into surface water.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3946

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act adds preschools to drug crimes based on proximity to schools. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Defines "schools" as including preschools for purposes of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance crimes occurring within 1,000 feet of a school. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3944

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
The Act repeals laws related to the building code, laws making areas less at risk for wildfire, laws about fire protection for certain lands and a map of wildfire hazard. The Act makes changes related to helping with defensible space. The Act makes changes related to certain areas near forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map. Makes changes related to defensible space. Makes changes related to the wildland-urban interface. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3945

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act makes changes to the OGEC's duties and number of members. The Act states whether some situations may be ethics violations. The Act allows local government officials to vote on changes to pay and stipends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Limits duties of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission in conducting investigations, making findings and imposing penalties regarding violations of quorum requirements in public meetings law to intentional violations. Provides that the use of serial electronic written communication among members of a governing body within a 30-day period may constitute a meeting of a governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied. Exempts from the prohibition on the use of official positions or office to obtain financial gain or avoid financial detriment any legal expenses incurred by a public official or governmental agency for specified purposes. Permits local government officials to vote on matters related to official compensation. Increases the size of the commission to 11 members and requires the Governor to appoint two practicing attorneys to the commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR33

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
4/22/25  
Honors the life and memory of Frank Cutsforth. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). In memoriam: Frank David Cutsforth, 1943-2023.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1190

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act makes new laws with respect to mandatory overtime shifts for some workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Permits employees of residential training homes to refuse to work an additional mandatory overtime shift scheduled by the employer when the employee has already worked a mandatory overtime shift in the same month. Prohibits residential training home employers from requiring an employee to take unpaid leave or use paid time off to make up for refusing to work the additional overtime shift, or from taking any adverse employment action against the employee.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3947

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act changes the kicker estimate to fund help against wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Requires that the difference between the amount actually collected and the amount estimated after the close of the 2023 regular session be used for funding wildfire prevention and response. Provides for the return to taxpayers of surplus revenue over the adjusted estimate amount if the constitutional threshold is exceeded. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.