Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Ben Bowman
Sponsored
Out of committee4
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to guarantee against losses in mortgage loans that lenders extend to first-time home buyers.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a primary care provider loan repayment program to provide loan repayment subsidies to specified primary care providers.
Adds school districts that apply for and receive a matching fund grant from the Department of Education to the definition of "qualifying agency" for the purpose of applying apprenticeship requirements in connection with constructing public improvement projects.
In committee5
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.
Directs the Department of Education to provide oversight of a program that coordinates an in-state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state.
Creates a method by which a health care practitioner may offer to treat a patient who has a terminal disease or severe chronic disease with an investigational product not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
Requires payment of state funds for early childhood special education and early intervention services be provided as monthly installments.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study human services.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits a management services organization or a shareholder, director, officer or employee of a management services organization from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee of, working as an independent contractor with or otherwise managing, directing the management of or participating in managing a professional medical entity with which the management services organization has a contract for management services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
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.
Requires health benefit plans and medical assistance managed plans to provide coverage with no cost-sharing for additional treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and prohibits requiring prior authorization.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Directs the governing body of a school to consider the installation of a panic alarm system as part of the policies and procedures relating to school building security.
Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.
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.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
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.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.
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 · 2
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Out of committee · 12
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish the Oregon-Taiwan Trade Center and the Oregon-Vietnam Trade Center.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Establishes a state gun dealer licensing program.
Allocates lottery funds to the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a unified trade strategy for Oregon in collaboration with the Port of Portland, the Oregon Tourism Commission, the State Department of Agriculture and other stakeholders.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit organization or local government association to serve as a statewide rural community resource center.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Appropriates moneys to the Judicial Department for the Washington County Courthouse Replacement Planning Project.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop enterprise strategic workforce plans and to work with executive department agencies on implementation.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
In committee · 7
Permits the testing of highly automated vehicles on highways of this state under certain circumstances.
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.
Voids noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements nondisparagement agreements and nonsolicitation agreements between certain business entities and medical professionals, with specified exceptions, and prohibits the business entities from retaliating against the medical professional for violating the void agreements.
Authorizes the Attorney General, at the Attorney General's own initiative, but in consultation and cooperation with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to investigate and bring an action against a health insurer or affiliate of a health insurer in a court of this state to enforce a violation of the antitrust laws of this state, to obtain damages, a civil penalty or restitution, and to enjoin an act or practice that constitutes a monopoly, a business combination in restraint of trade or commerce or a substantial reduction or elimination of competition or competitors within a region or market of this state, or that otherwise constitutes an unlawful trade practice.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state.
Prohibits landlords from banning political canvassing or solitication in manufactured dwelling parks and marinas.
Requires a person that operates a service station, business or other place for the purpose of retailing and delivering gasoline, diesel or other fuel to display on a sign visible from the street and on a sign visible at or near each dispensing device the prices charged for all grades of gasoline, diesel or other fuel.