Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Lucetta Elmer
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Out of committee4
Requires that qualified nonprofit agencies for individuals with disabilities employ individuals with disabilities for not less than 50 percent of the work hours of direct labor required for manufacturing or providing products or services.
Establishes a task force on the recruitment and retention of case managers and adult protective services workers.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a program to promote the purchase of Oregon-made food and beverage products by persons in other states.
Extends the temporary Oregon Business Development Department residential infrastructure grant program by two years.
In committee14
Modifies the definition of "private security entity" for purposes of private security requirements.
Amends the allowable uses of moneys appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to the City of Madras.
Modifies the certificate of need process to allow only applicants to challenge proposed decisions of the Oregon Health Authority.
Excludes facilities providing rehabilitation services to individuals with brain injuries or spinal cord injuries from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
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 the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorboats.
Allows home occupations on lands zoned for resource use to be operated by a property owner who is not a resident of the property.
Creates a new way of committing the crime of theft in the second degree when the theft occurs from a dwelling or within the curtilage of a residence.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop a plan for enabling community colleges to offer an associate's degree completed in coordination with credits earned in an apprenticeship or training program.
Allows a person to continue to qualify for the Oregon Promise program if, after being awarded a grant, the person enters into service with any career and technical student organization approved by the Department of Education before attending community college.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish the Adoption Awareness Program to be administered by a nonprofit organization or agency.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
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.
Allows a residential landlord to give 59 days' notice after accepting an offer from a buyer who intends to occupy the premises, to terminate a tenancy.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Exempts, until January 2, 2030, lamps purchased by a school district from the prohibition on the sale of certain fluorescent lamps.
Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs.
Requires the Secretary of State to study changes to the United States Postal Service.
Passed the House · 3
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.
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for capital construction and municipal infrastructure.
Out of committee · 17
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
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.
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.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Declares that it is the goal of the Legislative Assembly to fund the Department of Veterans' Affairs in an amount that is not less than $10,000,000, from the General Fund, in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation.
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 Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire.
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.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a program for examination and certification of operators of lagoon wastewater treatment systems.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to local governments and other entities for purposes related to public safety.
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 · 40
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable estate exceeds $13.99 million.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Allows a landlord to terminate residential tenancy upon third material violation or late payment upon 30 days' notice with no right to cure.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Establishes an income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
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.
Requires the Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Amends conditions under which a county must approve a farm stand on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Authorizes a county to allow a homestead rebuilt by the same owner on the same lot to replace the homestead destroyed by wildfire to have a specially assessed value equal to the destroyed homestead's real market value for the property tax year during which the homestead is destroyed, to the extent of the square footage of the destroyed homestead.
Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility.
Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.
Adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill, operative July 1, 2026.
Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning the ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Prohibits a county clerk from using certain information provided by the Department of Transportation or the Oregon Health Authority to update any registration information for an elector who is already registered to vote.
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 automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Removes the limits on the duration of medical services, the number of visits and the areas of practice for chiropractic physicians serving as attending physicians in workers' compensation claims.
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.
Modifies the definition of "recovery" in the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
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.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
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.