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April Dobson

Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.

All of April Dobson's terms

Sponsored

Out of committee1

  • House Bill 3503

    Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.

In committee1

  • House Bill 3576

    Transfers to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission the responsibility to develop a formula for the distribution of grant funds to counties for deflection programs.

Co-sponsored

Became law · 24
  • House Bill 2005

    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.

  • House Bill 2007

    Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.

  • House Bill 2008

    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.

  • House Bill 2059

    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.

  • House Bill 2292

    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.

  • House Bill 2682

    Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations to modernize the adequate service levels for early intervention and early childhood special education in this state.

  • House Bill 2688

    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.

  • House Bill 2698

    Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.

  • House Bill 2900

    Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.

  • House Bill 2964

    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.

  • House Bill 2978

    Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.

  • House Bill 3064

    Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.

  • House Bill 3145

    Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.

  • House Bill 3179

    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.

  • House Bill 3199

    Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.

  • House Bill 3522

    Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.

  • House Bill 3546

    Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.

  • House Bill 3560

    Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.

  • House Bill 3582

    Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.

  • House Bill 3644

    Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a statewide shelter program through which regional coordinators are selected to administer funding to shelter providers.

  • House Bill 3724

    Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items.

  • House Bill 3789

    Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.

  • House Bill 3814

    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.

  • House Bill 3970

    Modifies the list of persons who may receive services and assistance funded by the Emergency Housing Account.

Passed the House · 3
  • House Bill 2251

    Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.

  • House Bill 2901

    Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.

  • House Bill 3954

    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 · 11
  • House Bill 2423

    Establishes the Task Force on Licensed Health Care Services in Oregon Schools.

  • House Bill 2953

    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.

  • House Bill 3076

    Establishes a state gun dealer licensing program.

  • House Bill 3081

    Requires the State Department of Energy to coordinate with other organizations, conduct outreach, establish a statewide navigation and support system, identify and address gaps and overlaps between programs and provide information in multiple languages, as part of the department's single resource for providing information and assistance related to available energy efficiency incentives and programs.

  • House Bill 3188

    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.

  • House Bill 3196

    Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.

  • House Bill 3246

    Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.

  • House Bill 3435

    Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.

  • House Bill 3580

    Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.

  • House Bill 3587

    Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take certain actions related to rocky habitat management.

  • House Bill 3652

    Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.

In committee · 18
  • House Bill 2006

    Limits to 25 the number of legislative measures that a member of the Legislative Assembly may ask the Legislative Counsel to prepare for a regular session of the Legislative Assembly that begins in an odd-numbered year.

  • House Bill 2542

    Establishes the Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder.

  • House Bill 2846

    Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop a program under which the department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for the purpose of refinancing existing home mortgages on veterans' primary residences.

  • House Bill 2959

    Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.

  • House Bill 2974

    Modifies the meaning of "sexually explicit conduct" for certain crimes involving children.

  • House Bill 3079

    Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.

  • House Bill 3357

    Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.

  • House Bill 3581

    Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes.

  • House Bill 3583

    Requires the sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence whether the defendant was subjected to domestic violence that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a significant factor in the criminal behavior, and the criminal behavior was directed against the domestic violence perpetrator.

  • House Bill 3584

    Provides that a person must be 18 years of age or older in order for the person to commit the crime of prostitution.

  • House Bill 3595

    Establishes the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday in this state.

  • House Bill 3807

    Prescribes requirements that an organization that administers interscholastic activities, or that facilitates the scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities, must implement to address discriminatory harassment or bullying behavior.

  • House Bill 3839

    Directs the Department of State Police to ensure that level one and level two sex offender information is available to school districts and entities providing school visitor management services.

  • House Bill 3899

    Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.

  • House Bill 3918

    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.

  • House Bill 3925

    Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue a grant to Clackamas County for infrastructure improvements in the Sunrise Corridor.

  • House Bill 3931

    Establishes the E-Oregon Task Force for the purposes of evaluating potential solutions and methods for creating a coordinated electronic portal or portals that create a common pathway for residents of this state to apply for and receive licenses, registrations, certifications, identification cards and other credentials or permits necessary for engaging in business or other common transactions in this state.

  • House Bill 3978

    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.