Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Darcey Edwards
Sponsored
Became law1
Prohibits any hardware, software or service that uses artificial intelligence from being installed or downloaded onto or used or accessed by state information technology assets if the artificial intelligence is developed or owned by a covered vendor.
Out of committee1
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to create the Call Your Mom Program.
In committee12
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste or that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Requires a company or state agency that diverts a body of water within 15 miles of high-value farmland to conduct a study to ensure that the diversion will not negatively impact the high-value farmland.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the ways to fund senior centers in Oregon.
Permits contracting agencies to grant a preference in awarding a public improvement contract to a benefit company organized in this state and with a majority of the benefit company's employees located in this state, or to prospective contractors that fabricate or process construction materials in this state, if the increase in the cost of the construction materials does not exceed a specified percentage.
Reduces to 90 days the time under which a city or county must decide a land use application for housing or mental health or addiction facilities.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.
Allows owners of rural land on which a dwelling is sited to divide the land to add up to four additional dwellings.
Allows a city to expand its urban growth boundary in proportion to the unbuildable lands within the city's buildable lands inventory.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges.
Expands the crime of murder in the second degree to include intentionally or knowingly engaging in unlawful conduct that causes the death of an unborn child.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study the need to expand electric transmission infrastructure in this state.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs the field offices of the Department of Transportation located in rural counties to prioritize requests for drive tests when the request is from an applicant who lives in rural Oregon or within 50 miles of the field office.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
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.
Prohibits a supermajority vote requirement for any question related to a county or city charter.
Passed the House · 2
Requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on.
Establishes when homeowners and condominium association assessments accrue on property deeded to the county in the tax foreclosure process.
Out of committee · 12
Establishes theCARE Program within the Youth Development Division to support families and reduce barriers that contribute to absence from school and a lack of basic needs.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Judicial Department for the Washington County Courthouse Replacement Planning Project.
Establishes the Task Force on Youth Apprenticeship.
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.
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.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildlife damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
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 · 18
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Authorizes the involuntary civil commitment of a person with a substance use disorder who meets the criteria for involuntary civil commitment of a person with a mental disorder.
Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner.
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.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Expands the definition of "local correctional facility" under the Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Grant Program to allow people at other types of county facilities to receive opioid use disorder treatment and transition planning services.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
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.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
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.
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.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
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.
Prohibits strikes by public employees.