Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Tom Andersen
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes a defense to prosecution for theft, and immunity from civil liability, for an entity that takes possession of, keeps or disposes of a cat as provided in the Act.
Increases from $20 million to $40 million the minimum amount to be collected from the customers of electric companies for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance.
Out of committee2
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Sustainable City Year Program at the University of Oregon.
Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to reduce the amount of rebates available under zero-emission vehicle rebate programs, subject to certain conditions.
In committee21
Appropriates moneys to fund the provision of fire response, emergency medical and law enforcement and public safety services by the City of Salem.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Marion-Polk Food Share, Inc., for a distribution center.
Extends the statutory timeline for inspection of public records when the exemption is based on attorney-client privilege.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles.
Requires the Public Records Advisory Council to study public records.
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.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study Oregon's land use system and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Requires the Judicial Department to study ways to improve the efficiency of the process for setting aside convictions.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to counties for elections infrastructure.
Defines "dangerous to self or others" for the purpose of taking a person with mental illness into custody.
Modifies the provisions of the zero-emission and electric vehicle rebate programs.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact information form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in the individual's record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
Prohibits a police officer involved in a use of deadly physical force incident from reviewing body camera recordings before participating in an interview about the incident.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing for individuals with substance use disorders and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the City of Salem for a plaza and memorial on the former site of the Fairview Training Center.
Prohibits restaurants and retailers from providing reusable plastic checkout bags to consumers.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to commission a study on policies that may contribute to disparate access to homeownership.
Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution to school districts to fund services to migrant children in a manner that is consistent with the Migrant Education Program.
Prohibits the use of assessed historic property as a vacation occupancy unless the property is the owner's primary residence.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 54
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer.
Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state.
Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
Exempts the seller and a nonprofit, public body or tribe that purchases property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling certain units of land not lawfully established.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Allows a county court or board of county commissioners in any county to establish a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat.
Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing.
Requires certain health insurers to credit any amount an enrollee pays directly to a provider toward out-of-pocket costs and deductibles in certain circumstances.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to the Center for Public Service at Portland State University to conduct, in consultation with Oregon State University, a study examining the labor standards and working experiences of farmworkers in this state.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program.
Prohibits a municipality from requiring in, or as a condition of obtaining, a construction permit to renovate or otherwise alter an existing building that the construction permit holder install a frontage improvement if the alteration does not increase the building's square footage or footprint, if the cost of the alteration does not exceed a specified amount and if existing or proposed uses for the building do not change the occupancy classification group that applied to the building.
Modifies the procedure for the expunction of certain juvenile records.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Directs the Employment Relations Board to impose civil penalties against a public employer that has a history of failing to comply with certain requirements under the Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service and the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State University to study the distribution and occurrence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in biosolids applied to agricultural fields that do not produce crops intended for human consumption.
Prohibits employers from entering into agreements that shorten the statute of limitations with respect to violations over which the Bureau of Labor and Industries has enforcement authority.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing.
Provides that a pleading, an admission or a finding that criminal conduct constitutes a crime involving domestic violence is not an element of the crime for merger purposes.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Prohibits the transfer, for consideration, of winning Oregon State Lottery tickets or shares above a certain value.
Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.
Makes permanent the plan of assistance for low-income customers for telecommunication services.
Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to consider the cumulative economic impact of an electric or natural gas company's proposed residential rate or schedule of rates.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Establishes joint and several liability for landowners under certain circumstances involving the operation of farmworker camps.
Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to develop and implement plans, including a statewide primary prevention strategy, that address the entire youth continuum of care and are designed to prevent the onset of substance use.
Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.
Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that any revisions to the academic content standards for certain core subjects include standards that address the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to those causes and effects.
Requires residential landlords to offer a method of accessing the dwelling unit other than software on tenant-owned phones or other electronic devices for the dwelling to be considered habitable.
Transfers moneys from the Senior Property Tax Deferral Revolving Account to the Healthy Homes Repair Fund for the purpose of supporting seniors and individuals with disabilities and to the Department of Revenue to increase public knowledge of property tax deferral programs.
Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a statewide shelter program through which regional coordinators are selected to administer funding to shelter providers.
Adds entities in which employees of the entity own at least 50 percent of the ownership interest in the entity directly or through an employee stock ownership plan to the list of sources to which a contracting agency may give preference in procuring goods or services for public contracts.
Requires the Energy Facility Siting Council to conclude a contested case and issue a final order within 12 months from the date of a proposed order.
Modifies provisions of law related to compensation for student athletes enrolled in a post-secondary institution of education.
Allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action against a person who transmits an intimate image to the plaintiff's computer or electronic device in certain circumstances.
Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
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.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters.
Passed the House · 3
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Prohibits the Adjutant General from assisting or allowing the United States Department of Defense or any branch thereof to communicate with any individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard for purposes of calling the individual or unit into active service unless the active service is for a certain listed reason.
Out of committee · 45
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs.
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires community colleges to pay part-time facultya certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time facultywho teach comparable courses.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County forprograms for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the programs.
Establishes the Task Force on Innovative Housing Strategies for Veterans.
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to update the statewide land use planning goal relating to "citizen involvement" by rule byJune 30, 2029.
Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit.
Specifies, for newly constructed buildings within a metropolitan jurisdiction, the percentage of electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles or electric vehicle charging stations that must be installed at vehicle parking spaces in the garages or parking areas of commercial buildings, multifamily buildings with 10 or more units and mixed-use buildings consisting of privately owned commercial space and 10 or more residential dwelling units.
Establishes the State Public Finance Task Force.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to a nonprofit group for purposes related to interpretation of indigenous languages.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation to low-income individuals.
Requires entities that cook, assemble, process, serve or sell food to recover and dispose of food waste as specified in the Act.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to fund the management of the Oregon SAE/SANE Certification Commission by the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.
Establishes a state gun dealer licensing program.
Requires the State Department of Energy to coordinate with other organizations, conduct outreach, establish a statewide navigation and support system, identify and address gaps and overlaps between programs and provide information in multiple languages, as part of the department's single resource for providing information and assistance related to available energy efficiency incentives and programs.
Requires the Department of Corrections to enter into a contract, or renegotiate an existing contract, with a third party to provide voice communications services at no cost to persons confined at a Department of Corrections institution.
Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks.
Changes the requirements for an energy resilience plan that a county develops under the Act.
Establishes the Task Force on Youth Apprenticeship.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Expands purposes for the corporate excise tax credit allowed for affordable housing lending.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Human Access Project for harmful algal bloom mitigation.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within the scope of their practice if the services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians, physician associates or nurse practioners.
Creates the Westside Express Service Authority.
Requires specified agencies to consider the effects of a proposed action on older adult populations.
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take certain actions related to rocky habitat management.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit by January 1, 2026, to provide up to five regional subgrants for regional housing coordination.
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
Expands the goals and purposes of the Prosperity 10,000 Program.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
In committee · 23
Limits to 25 the number of legislative measures that a member of the Legislative Assembly may ask the Legislative Counsel to prepare for a regular session of the Legislative Assembly that begins in an odd-numbered year.
Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center.
Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier.
Authorizes the involuntary civil commitment of a person with a substance use disorder who meets the criteria for involuntary civil commitment of a person with a mental disorder.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in the Universal Representation Fund.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to classify certain pesticides containing neonicotinoids as restricted-use.
Requires the Employment Relations Board to establish and maintain a registry system for persons to register as union representatives.
Authorizes the Oregon Public Defense Commission to contract with specified individuals and entities for the provision of public defense services.
Directs the Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit service providers to assist individuals who are noncitizens to change their immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop a program under which the department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for the purpose of refinancing existing home mortgages on veterans' primary residences.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish by rule a program for providing rebate vouchers to qualifying individuals who purchase electric assisted bicycles.
Prohibits residential landlords from charging an applicant screening charge.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Prohibits the distribution or sale of certain covered products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Directs the Executive Officer of the Commission on Indian Services to provide training on tribes and tribal relations at least once per calendar quarter.
Directs the Commission on Indian Services to employ a natural resources management tribal liaison officer to facilitate opportunities for integrated natural resources management between Indian tribes and state agencies with natural resources management duties.
Establishes the Oregon Electric Transmission Authority as an independent public corporation.
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.
Prohibits residential landlords from considering the credit score of an applicant who demonstrates eligibility for medical assistance under the Oregon Health Plan.
Limits the applicant screening charge a residential landlord may collect to $20.
Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories.