Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Farrah Chaichi
Sponsored
Became law2
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.
Designates March 21 of each year as Nowruz Day.
Out of committee1
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
In committee8
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Establishes the Task Force on Law Libraries and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 15, 2026.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020).
Requires the State Treasurer and Oregon Investment Council to implement a system to perform ESG analyses of current and proposed investments, assign personnel to oversee the system and issue an annual report on actions taken pursuant to the system.
Repeals the prohibition on local rent control.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a program to register all dwelling units that are rented or available for rent.
Allows persons convicted of a felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Requires Holocaust and genocide studies instruction to include ongoing acts of genocide and mass violence.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
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.
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.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program.
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.
Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to implement a program for providing to emergency departments in real time notifications that identify patients with hemoglobinopathies and provide information on how to contact a hematologist.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse pharmacies and pharmacists in the same manner as other health care providers for certain services related to HIV treatment.
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.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund.
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
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.
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.
Establishes joint and several liability for landowners under certain circumstances involving the operation of farmworker camps.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Directs the Oregon Geographic Names Board, in consultation with federally recognized Indian tribes, state and local government leaders, local landowners and other interested parties, to compile a list of geographic features in Oregon that bear offensive names.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Punishes a violation of the laws that regulate home solicitation sales as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Prohibits as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act a person's initiating a telephone solicitation outside specified hours or more than three separate times within a 24-hour period or misrepresenting or falsifying the person's identity or the purpose of the call.
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 · 3
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Prohibits a person that offers or sells consumer goods or services in this state from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the consumer goods or services that does not include all fees and charges that a resident must pay to complete the transaction in the consumer goods or services other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction or reasonable charges actually incurred for shipping the goods or providing the services.
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 · 26
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.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish a program to award grants to child care resource and referral entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care.
Requires employers and employment agencies to include certain wage and benefit information in job postings for job, promotion and transfer opportunities.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a voluntary pilot program where participating hospitals may screen an eligible individual for hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis when the eligible individual undergoes a blood test or analysis as part of medical care received within an emergency department.
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.
Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit.
Establishes the State Public Finance Task Force.
Provides funding to the Employment Department for staffing workforce reentry programs for adults in custody.
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.
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 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.
Establishes the Task Force on Reparations and directs the task force to study and develop proposals for financial and nonfinancial reparations for Oregonians of African-American descent, develop appropriate methods for educating the public about the task force's findings and recommend appropriate remedies based on the task force's findings.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Appropriates moneys to the Judicial Department for the Washington County Courthouse Replacement Planning Project.
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.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people.
Modifies provisions of a scholarship program for teacher candidates.
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.
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.
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
In committee · 35
Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a program to assess, monitor and track the language developmental milestones of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires school districts and public charter schools to implement a schedule for high schools that does not start regular instructional hours before 8:30 a.
Directs the State Board of Education to adopt a requirement that approved recovery schools provide peer group supports for students of the schools.
Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2028, the annual salary or wages paid to an officer or employee of certain state agencies may not exceed 10 times the lowest annual salary or wages paid to a full-time officer or employee of the agency.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to classify certain pesticides containing neonicotinoids as restricted-use.
Prohibits insurers that issue a policy of insurance that provides coverage or benefits to an insured for veterinary services for the insured's pet from excluding, limiting or reducing the coverage or benefits on the basis of a preexisting condition that affects the pet's health or physical condition.
Directs a health care facility to establish and maintain procedures that a staff member may use to submit to the health care facility a complaint regarding a medical supply or equipment that the staff member believes in good faith is faulty or dangerous.
Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Provides for calculation of the minimum wage rate beginning July 1, 2026.
Establishes certain requirements concerning aquaculture.
Prohibits residential landlords from charging an applicant screening charge.
Requires the Department of Transportation to provide a report on the progress of revising the written test for Class C driver licenses.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a medical science liaison position to develop recommendations for advancing health equity and justice.
Establishes the Task Force on Data Modernization and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for various purposes related to increasing the representation of marginalized populations in the education workforce in this state.
Permits an individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
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.
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.
Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
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.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold inhalant delivery systems in this state unless the inhalant delivery systems are listed in a directory maintained by the Attorney General.
Establishes the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday in this state.
Directs the Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office to hire permanent staff to convene affinity group task forces to develop recommendations on addressing health inequities.
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.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a rental licensing program for the annual licensing of dwelling units for rental or vacation occupancy.
Requires the Department of State Police to study whether firearm hold agreements reduce firearm risks.
Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.
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.