Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Ed Diehl
Sponsored
Became law2
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.
Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period.
Passed the House2
Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor.
Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for capital construction and municipal infrastructure.
Out of committee2
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020).
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a program for examination and certification of operators of lagoon wastewater treatment systems.
In committee34
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study improvements to the Oregon Eligibility (ONE) system.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Directs the Department of Justice to review state statutes and administrative rules and determine whether each statute or rule is likely to be found unconstitutional under the reasoning and interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution set forth in the Students for Fair Admissions case decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Provides that a public body may not collect certain information about a person's views, associations or activities without consent.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Enacts the interstate Social Work Licensure Compact.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Enacts the PA Licensure Compact.
Replaces the requirement that an owner or operator of a municipal solid waste incinerator conduct continuous monitoring or sampling of specified air contaminants with a requirement that the monitoring or sampling be conducted annually.
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.
Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipal solid waste and became operational before January 1, 1995, if such facilities register with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System at any time, and for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated, per calendar year, from the combustion of biogenic material.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study legislation affecting local governments.
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.
Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of farm or forest lands.
Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact.
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.
Modifies when the Department of Human Services may substantiate an allegation of child abuse arising from the restraint or seclusion of a student.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.
Modifies the definition of "abuse" for purposes of child abuse to remove the use of certain restraints on and seclusion of students.
Exempts institutions for mental diseases from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents' estates more efficient.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system.
Sets a minimum amount of security for persons charged with Ballot Measure 11 (1994) offenses.
Requires labor negotiations conducted by or on behalf of public bodies to be conducted in open meetings.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study the socioeconomic impacts of the removal of the Klamath River dams.
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.
Requires all state agencies to prepare a report within 60 days on the impacts of the agency's current rules on construction of new housing and the agency's land that may be available for housing production.
Transfers regulatory authority over construction labor contractors from the Bureau of Labor and Industries to the Construction Contractors Board.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure residential treatment homes.
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.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies.
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.
Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
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.
Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and make available a nonopioid directive form.
Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.
Requires the Secretary of State to study changes to the United States Postal Service.
Eliminates gallonage requirements for eligibility for nonretail cardlock dispensing of motor vehicle fuel.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Modifies provisions relating to demands for correction or retraction of a defamatory statement published in an electronic newspaper, magazine or other periodical.
Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity.
Allows a physician or physician associate to use telemedicine to practice medicine or provide health care services under specified circumstances to a patient located out of state.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Allows a physical therapist to perform dry needling.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age.
Vetoed · 1
Enacts the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact.
Passed the House · 2
Allows the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to include as eligible providers physicians who practice anesthesiology and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the health care provider incentive program.
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Out of committee · 28
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs.
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.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Establishes the Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Union County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legislative Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative Assembly to review a specified number of proposed measures sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction prevention services.
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.
Allocates lottery moneys for distribution to the economic development districts in Oregon to be used to receive federal matching grants awarded by the United States Economic Development Administration.
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.
Allocates eight-tenths of one percent of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery to the County Fair Account and two-tenths of one percent of net proceeds from the lottery to the Horse Racing Account.
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 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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases under the Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
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.
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a primary care provider loan repayment program to provide loan repayment subsidies to specified primary care providers.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Extends the temporary Oregon Business Development Department residential infrastructure grant program by two years.
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 · 55
Establishes certain health insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis therapy for certain intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses with the same requirements for coverage as autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.
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.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
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.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Declares the state's public policy regarding the rights of a parent to the care, custody and control of the parent's child.
Prohibits insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug.
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.
Removes notification and certain examination requirements that apply to children who are taught by a private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
Repeals the prohibition on the use of public resources to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Directs the courts to declare a rule invalid if the rule requires a public body to fail to comply with federal laws or regulations.
Enacts the interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact.
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.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
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 Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote for the first time in this state.
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.
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.
Establishes an air ambulance readiness program in the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to provide subsidies to qualified air ambulance bases to offset the costs of operating air ambulances and air ambulance services.
Requires state agencies to waive fees for public records requests when the request is made by a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
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.
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.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Provides that a health care facility is not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of a product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the health care facility was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.
Modifies the percentage of amounts that school districts must pay from the State School Fund to public charter schools that are not virtual public charter schools.
Creates a violation for failure to comply with compulsory school attendance requirements.
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.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
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.
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.
Directs each school district board to adopt a prevention curriculum that addresses child human trafficking.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Establishes the Task Force on Investigations of School Employee Misconduct.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
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.
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.
Removes the Department of State Police as the designated state point of contact for purposes of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
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.
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.
Authorizes Benton County, Linn County and Polk County, in addition to Marion County, to take specified actions with respect to solid waste and solid waste sites or facilities.
Prohibits strikes by public employees.