Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
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Sponsored
Passed the House1
Expands offenses relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft system to interfere with official duties to include firefighting and search and rescue efforts.
Out of committee4
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Rogue Siskiyou Regional Training Center.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a program to reimburse the cost of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for low-income veterans who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder and are ineligible for medical assistance.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt by rule qualification criteria for veteran-specific personal health navigators as an additional category of traditional health workers.
In committee26
Authorizes the Department of Education to use moneys in the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to fund grants to manage programs of study in agricultural science and technology between school years.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environmental Quality to study the impacts of wildfire on water quality of streams and tributaries.
Distributes the balance of the proceeds from county sales of real property to the county general fund.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish.
Authorizes a county tax collector to withhold from property tax distributions to taxing districts within the county an amount equal to three percent of the distributions.
Modifies the definition of "totaled vehicle" for the purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code.
Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.
Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
Requires the Department of Justice to study improvements to crime victim rights notification procedures.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for income of a taxpayer with three or more dependent children under the age of 18.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Adds additional criteria under which Coos County may approve a golf course on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires public education programs to provide students with information about adoption when the students are provided with information about contraceptives or sexually transmitted infections.
Directs the State Board of Forestry to convey certain state forest lands to a county that determines that the county would secure the greatest permanent value of the lands to the county and requests conveyance.
Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.
Requires employers to use the federal E-Verify employment verification system to verify the employment eligibility of employees.
Directs the Department of Education to develop model policies related to the use of student cellular telephones and other personal electronic devices.
Directs school districts to teach about human biology related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb and to show related videos.
Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides.
Prohibits camping on public property other than school lands and state forests.
Provides that when a person is charged with committing a new felony sex crime while on pretrial release for a felony sex crime, the person is only eligible for release after a hearing during which the court determines whether security release may be denied, and if security release is allowed, the person must deposit the full security amount set by the court.
Directs the State Forestry Department to endeavor to enter into a fire protection contract with the United States Forest Service that pertains to certain counties.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study access to resources for development in Curry County and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
Provides that the crime of buying or selling a person under 18 years of age includes conduct related to adoption.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Requires Curry County and the Water Resources Department to expedite review of applications for use on specified lands.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
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.
Provides the Department of Veterans' Affairs with authority to adopt rules to implement the laws concerning the unclaimed remains of veterans, veterans' spouses and dependents and survivors of veterans.
Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
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.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Removes the cap on fees a county may charge to fund the county's activities related to public land survey corners.
Makes changes related to a water supply grant program.
Requires the Secretary of State to study changes to the United States Postal Service.
Requires an agency that appoints a rules advisory committee with regard to rules implementing legislation to invite certain legislators to participate on the committee as nonvoting members.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility.
Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Passed the House · 2
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for capital construction and municipal infrastructure.
Out of committee · 32
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Exempts from state income tax all federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is a disabled veteran or member of a reserve component or the National Guard.
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Adds mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
Establishes theCARE Program within the Youth Development Division to support families and reduce barriers that contribute to absence from school and a lack of basic needs.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish the Oregon-Taiwan Trade Center and the Oregon-Vietnam Trade Center.
Declares that it is the goal of the Legislative Assembly to fund the Department of Veterans' Affairs in an amount that is not less than $10,000,000, from the General Fund, in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation.
Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
Appropriates moneys for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association to be used to replicate the success of the 100% Fish Project of the Iceland Ocean Cluster in utilizing fish for nonfood product manufacturing.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to various entities for food production and distribution.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire.
Directs the State Forester to determine the available state forestland, establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and manage available state forestland.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to the Oregon Association of Water Utilities to provide technical assistance, or enter into a contract with a third party to provide technical assistance, to address the needs and vulnerabilities of small and very small community water systems, construct and equip a water utility training center and employ three staff to provide related support and resources.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Provides that an operator may require a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Directs the Department of the State Fire Marshal to establish a grant program to facilitate the retrofitting of dwellingsto reduce vulnerability to wildfire.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Creates additional rules and requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and a policy or certificate of health insurance or other contract providing for the reimbursement of the cost of a prescription drug.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development, in consultation with the Department of Revenue, State Department of Energy and Water Resources Department, to study siting of energy facilities in designated critical ground water areas east of the Cascade Range.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association for the purpose of promoting seafood in the public schools of this state.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd range area.
Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildlife damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
Establishes a program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to promote workforce development initiatives in the trucking industry.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to local governments and other entities for purposes related to public safety.
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.
In committee · 73
Amends the allowable uses of moneys appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to the City of Madras.
Requires a commercial entity that engages in the business of publishing or distributing sexual material harmful to minors to verify the ages of individuals to whom the commercial entity distributes or makes available the sexual material harmful to minors.
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the STEM Investment Council, to conduct specified reviews for the purpose of developing and recommending standards by which technology-based competitive student activities may satisfy high school diploma requirements or career and technical education program requirements.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of certain land, mineral or water interests.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Allows a landlord to terminate residential tenancy upon third material violation or late payment upon 30 days' notice with no right to cure.
Lowers the disability threshold for property tax exemption for the homestead or personal property of veterans to 10 percent.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish an elk damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
Directs school districts to give parents, guardians and district residents equitable access to instructional materials for the purpose of examining the materials.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to distribute moneys for county veterans' service officers to counties that have a population of less than 30,000 and are or will be unable to maintain operations of county veterans' service officers due to budget decreases.
Modifies provisions authorizing unemancipated minors to consent to health care services without parental consent.
Repeals the transfer of certain electronic records from the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State for purposes of voter registration.
Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of violations of such laws.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct a study on voter registration in this state.
Requires the Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote for the first time in this state.
Requires a county clerk to cancel the registration of an elector if the elector registers to vote in another county, surrenders the elector's driver license upon being issued a license in another state or is excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote in this state.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Modifies the crime of riot.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Modifies provisions relating to administrative law.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study compensation for members of state boards and commissions.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish the Adoption Awareness Program to be administered by a nonprofit organization or agency.
Enacts the PA Licensure Compact.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
Permits a person to operate Class I, Class III and Class IV all-terrain vehicles on highways that are not interstate highways if the all-terrain vehicle meets vehicle equipment standards and the all-terrain vehicle is registered.
Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable electricity prior to retiring an electric power generating facility that provides reliable or dispatchable electricity.
Creates a procedure for a minor who is at least 14 years old to intervene and move the court to suspend or terminate the parenting time of parent against whom the Department of Human Services has substantiated an allegation of abuse.
Provides protections for a person who refuses to participate in a procedure related to abortion, physician-assisted suicide or gender-affirming treatment if the refusal is based on a person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of farm or forest lands.
Provides that a state of emergency declared by the Governor terminates after 60 days unless the Legislative Assembly extends the state of emergency by joint resolution.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Requires the Secretary of State to verify information provided to the secretary by the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority regarding voter registration.
Establishes the Move Oregon-Idaho Border Task Force to document the state and federal legal and legislative processes that must take place to relocate the Oregon and Idaho state boundaries to include specified Oregon counties in Idaho.
Provides for a single limit on the cost of compliance for an electric utility that is required to comply with a renewable portfolio standard and the statutory clean energy targets.
Requires public bodies and law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws with respect to any individual who is convicted of a violent felony or Class A misdemeanor or felony sexual offense.
Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes.
Increases the penalties for the crime of strangulation constituting a felony.
Creates a civil cause of action against a person who removes a condom without the consent of the plaintiff.
Allows students enrolled full-time in an Oregon institution of higher education to be treated as residents for the purpose of purchasing licenses, tags and permits issued by the State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Requires insurers to offer personal injury protection benefits to persons insured under the insurer's motor vehicle liability policy, but makes the decision to elect to receive personal injury protection benefits optional.
Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning a ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Allows landlords to terminate month-to-month residential tenancies without cause.
Makes certain changes related to members of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center Board.
Increases fees related to livestock brands.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.
Provides that members of the Legislative Assembly and legislative branch employees who have a valid concealed handgun license have an affirmative defense to a charge of possessing a firearm within the Capitol, and may not be arrested or charged for the offense while in possession of the license.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Directs the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to notify the United States Secretary of Labor of the intent to withdraw the federally approved state plan.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife.
Removes the Department of State Police as the designated state point of contact for purposes of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Directs a state agency to establish deadlines within which the agency intends to process applications for permits and make the deadlines available to the public.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
Appropriates moneys to the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision for purposes of eliminating the backlog of sex offenders who have not yet been assessed and placed into a risk level.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.