Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Jami Cate
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires each public utility to include with each utility bill the phone numbers for the Public Utility Commission's consumer services and website address for the commission's online consumer complaint form.
Out of committee1
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
In committee16
Removes the cap on the amounts distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students who are eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Requires the Secretary of State to establish an electronic filing system to allow a candidate for nomination or election to a county or city office held at a primary or general election to file a portrait and statement electronically with the secretary if the candidate cannot have the portrait and statement printed in the county voters' pamphlet.
Authorizes a person to use dogs to hunt or pursue cougars on private property owned by the person or with the consent of the property owner.
Removes certain lands from definitions of buildable lands for purposes of urbanization.
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.
Establishes a refundable personal income tax credit for making a blood donation to certain organizations during a declared period of emergency.
Allows certain photovoltaic solar power generation facilities on lands zoned for exclusive farm use to operate alongside farm or allowed nonfarm uses on a tract.
Limits the maximum percentage by which a public utility may increase a rate or schedule of rates in a calendar year to the average percentage change of the Consumer Price Index.
Directs the State Fire Marshal to study funding for fire districts.
Prohibits a public utility from increasing the public utility's rates or schedules of rates if the public utility has, for a period of three or more years, outstanding or contingent liabilities arising out of wildfire-related litigation.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for distribution to schools for the purpose of providing child care before and after school hours.
Allows counties to adopt an ordinance or resolution that provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of individuals who are at least 62 years of age.
Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
Prohibits a city from requiring a property owner to pay for the removal of a tree from public property or repairs to a public sidewalk damaged by a tree on public property.
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.
Provides that theft of a controlled substance or a prescription medication constitutes theft in the first degree.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Creates a limited exception to water quality permitting requirements for a treatment works located within the North Santiam Basin.
Passed the Senate2
Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that an electric company incurs if a court or jury finds that a wildfire resulted from the negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the electric company.
Maintains current time standards in Oregon unless certain conditions are met.
Co-sponsored
Passed the House · 1
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Out of committee · 5
Removes the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability.
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.
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.
Allows for additional distributions of state moneys to wildfire-impacted school districts for an additional school year.
Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year.
In committee · 5
Amends landowner immunity provisions to focus on the activities and outdoor location of injured users and not the users' intended purposes.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Transfers moneys from amounts retained in the Fund for Student Success to the School Stabilization Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School Districts and increases the expenditure limitation for payment of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services for the Department of Education for the 2023-2025 biennium for the purpose of awarding grants to school districts impacted by wildfires.
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.
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.