Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Paul Evans
Sponsored
Became law9
Authorizes the Oregon State Capitol Foundation voting directors to appoint all voting directors who are not appointed by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Directs the Legislative Fiscal Officer to analyze and prepare a report on the current state property tax system and options to modernize the state property tax system.
Extends the sunset date for the contingency planning fee and the tank railroad car fee.
Establishes the process and requirements by which the City of Monmouth may amend its urban growth boundary to add up to 75 acres and to remove up to 90 acres.
Permits the governing boards of certain universities in this state to establish a tuition rate for certain qualifying students participating in a program developed by the boards for cooperation in higher education and economic development with certain countries in East Asia.
Prohibits a municipality from requiring in, or as a condition of obtaining, a construction permit to renovate or otherwise alter an existing building that the construction permit holder install a frontage improvement if the alteration does not increase the building's square footage or footprint, if the cost of the alteration does not exceed a specified amount and if existing or proposed uses for the building do not change the occupancy classification group that applied to the building.
Allows vehicle dealers to issue a recreational vehicle trip permit that is valid for 30 consecutive days if the vehicle is bought by a person who does not reside in Oregon and does not intend to title the vehicle in Oregon.
Extends a dismantler certificate validity period by one year.
Increases the salaries of state court judges.
Passed the House2
Requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on.
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 committee9
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution for the emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish the Oregon-Taiwan Trade Center and the Oregon-Vietnam Trade Center.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to award grants for recreational fishing facilities within an urban growth boundary.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County forprograms for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the programs.
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.
Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
Establishes the Task Force on Innovative Housing Strategies for Veterans.
Creates an income tax credit for investment in community gardens and food banks.
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to study the needs of youth who are in a residential training home and who attend a public school in this state.
In committee264
Changes who can request veteran discharge papers from county clerks and exempts veterans' discharge papers from the 25-year statute of limitations for public record disclosure.
Permits the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to cancel the commission's approval of a school to confer any academic degree or provide services purporting to lead to a degree in whole or in part.
Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50.
Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50.
Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study long term services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study long term services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
Authorizes the general manager of a mass transit district to appoint transit security officers to aid in the enforcement of mass transit ordinances.
Allows for the creation of an easement over an owner's property for the benefit of the owner by declaration of the owner.
Prohibits public universities in this state from increasing enrollment by more than five percent over the preceding academic year.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide one-time grants to individuals who agree to serve in a uniformed service or public service program and complete the basic or initial training for the uniformed service or public service program.
Allows the Director of Veterans' Affairs to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a study on reporting requirements placed on public universities in this state.
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.
Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Commission in the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Allows a credit against income taxes for up to three years for employment of qualified military veterans if the wage requirement is met.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.
Increases the amount of reimbursement from the Oregon Production Investment Fund that is available to a local filmmaker or media production services company.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a grant program for court and community care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.
Increases the maximum allowable amount of political contribution personal income tax credit.
Grants income tax credit to firefighters and other registered individuals who provide volunteer services, including services to rural fire protection districts or fire departments.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to contract with businesses to provide motor vehicle pollution control equipment testing.
Permits a motor vehicle drawing a trailer to also draw a farm trailer under specified conditions.
Directs the Department of Corrections to study the facilities used to execute adults in custody at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Prohibits a law enforcement unit from disciplining a police officer because the officer's name has been placed on a list maintained by a prosecutor's office of recurring witnesses for whom there is known potential impeachment information, or because the officer's name may otherwise be subject to disclosure pursuant to Brady v.
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.
Directs the Department of Education to establish a program to assist student inventors in the development of intellectual property and to assist education service districts in the acquisition of interests in intellectual property developed by student inventors.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Prohibits a person from charging as the sum of specified fees more than $150 or one half of one percent of the amount of a consumer finance loan made for the purpose of purchasing a motor vehicle or one half of one percent of cash sale price of the motor vehicle.
Requires a public university to submit any proposed change in affiliation with an athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports to the appropriate legislative committees for review.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study options to maximize federal funding for the ground emergency medical transport program.
Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Services Department.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a housing stipend pilot program to provide housing stipends to individuals to move to a city where their labor is expected to benefit economic development of the city.
Prohibits the Public Utility Commission, municipal electric utilities, electric cooperatives and people's utility districts from setting a maximum amount of cumulative generating capacity for solar net metering systems that is allowed to be interconnected.
Permits the Building Codes Structures Board to adopt licensing standards for performing structural masonry in essential facilities.
Establishes the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board.
Establishes the Task Force on Containment of Petroleum Contamination.
Directs a municipal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a population of at least 350,000 to staff patrol vehicles with a minimum of two officers.
Permits a vehicle dealer to issue temporary registration permits for motor vehicles that do not have proof of compliance with pollution control equipment requirements.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish and administer a program to acquire and manage residential properties for the benefit of veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, housing instability.
Establishes Central Oregon University as a separate public university, distinct from Oregon State University.
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
Creates the crime of criminal defamation of a servicemember.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to create and maintain a registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response.
Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at a 25 percent mortality rate.
Establishes the Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Imposes a surtax on income tax liability.
Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to the adult in custody, and to submit the information to the Secretary of State.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with public universities and community colleges, to conduct a study to determine the appropriate rate of return the State of Oregon should receive for each patent obtained as a result of public moneys provided to a public university or community college.
Requires the owner of a public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in the public building.
Transfers duties, functions and powers related to administering the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and workforce development matters from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Prohibits a warrantor from accepting a fee from a resident for an extended warranty unless the warrantor knows that the resident's motor vehicle qualifies for coverage under the extended warranty.
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of child abduction.
Provides a worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during a state of emergency declared by the Governor to unemployed independent contractors on terms similar to the terms under which employees receive regular benefits.
Imposes a surtax on personal income tax liability.
Directs the State Treasurer to develop and implement a small business support loan program that aids in supporting the economic activities of small businesses during times in which small businesses cannot conduct business activities at an ordinary or customary level because of a statewide or regional emergency or other significant disruption of business activity.
Authorizes all public universities in Oregon to offer doctoral degrees, subject to approval by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Directs the Department of Transportation to notify vehicle dealers when the department discovers documentation, information or fees the vehicle dealer submitted to register or title a vehicle are missing, incomplete or miscalculated.
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution for construction of a veterans' home in Roseburg.
Allows vehicle dealers to submit vehicle-related documents in person at a field office of the Department of Transportation.
Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program.
Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
Authorizes a city or county to impose a public transit incentive surcharge on the amount of any fine for violation of the city's or county's motor vehicle parking code.
Directs the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with any qualified provider to assist the department with certain functions of the department.
Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring licensed long term care facilities, outpatient renal dialysis facilities and residential facilities to acquire and maintain backup power sources to be used during power outages.
Requires every corporation to annually file an affidavit with the Department of Revenue attesting that the corporation has registered or attempted to register with the United States Selective Service System.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a two-year demonstration project in two counties to test whether expanding the scope of compensable services provided by community health workers can improve outcomes for low-income families and children at risk of entering the foster care system.
Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023.
Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.
Establishes a task force to develop a plan for the Legislative Assembly to establish a statewide public safety funding authority in Oregon in accordance with House Joint Resolution 8 (2025).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the workloads of case managers in the aging and disability services division of the department.
Directs the Oregon Tourism Commission to identify, designate and monitor tourism districts in this state.
Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to reimburse certain nongovernmental entities for specified costs related to volunteers.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to provide grants to counties to create and fill county-level disaster mitigation and recovery manager positions.
Creates the offense of sleeping in a highway danger zone.
Establishes the Oregon Individual Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Disaster Response Fund.
Directs the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a work group to develop a framework for a multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by the Department of Human Services.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop and maintain a grant program to prevent spills at fuel facilities.
Removes the provision stating that a justice court may not become a court of record if the court is located within 50 driving miles of the circuit court for the county in which the justice court is located.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land Conservation and Development for natural hazards mitigation planning.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a registry of small businesses interested in receiving communications relating to emergency management.
Establishes the Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority.
Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Department for distribution to counties for the purpose of acquiring analog encoders for transmission of information to broadcasters in case of an emergency.
Directs the court to prohibit unsupervised parenting time with a parent who committed abuse if the abuse involved certain acts with a firearm.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study the feasibility of providing discounted mortgage loans to home buyers who install energy generation improvements capable of providing electricity to a local utility.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1.
Requires directors and senior executives of businesses that receive $10 million or more in public moneys over a five-year period to file a statement of economic interest.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to submit a report on the effects on Oregon wolf populations of changes in certain protections for the gray wolf during the last 10 years.
Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while employed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state.
Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense a seven-day supply of a prescription drug to a veteran with a disability, at no cost to the veteran, if the veteran is unable to obtain the prescription drug through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Authorizes the Governor, if necessitated by an emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for the manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods.
Requires public post-secondary institutions to grant 12 academic credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Prohibits a local government, local contracting agency or local contract review board from enacting, adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule or other law that prohibits, restricts or limits the evaluation, comparison or use of pipe or piping materials for a water project if the pipe or piping materials meet current standards or performance specifications of specified organizations and if moneys appropriated from the State Treasury directly or indirectly provided funding for the water project.
Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
Provides that a veteran must provide evidence of eligibility for veterans' preference in public employment at the time of application for a civil service position.
Expands the application of a law requiring law enforcement officers working in crowd management to wear certain identification to crowd management in a city with a population of over 5,000, instead of 60,000.
Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to fill and utilize certain positions.
Requires a statement of economic interest to be filed by all members of the board of directors or governing body of a nonprofit that has either received or submitted testimony to the Legislative Assembly requesting $1 million or more in state capital construction funding over the previous five years.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Department for the Service Member and Family Support Program in the biennium beginning July 1, 2025.
Modifies provisions relating to retirement benefits for a public employee who is a designated representative of an exclusive representative and takes release time.
Requires each community college and public university to have at least 65 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees of the college or university during the 2026-2027 academic year and at least 75 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees every academic year thereafter.
Establishes the Veterans' Benefits Economic Development Fund.
Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
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.
Creates a subtraction from taxable income for start-up expenditures.
Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation's proposed annual budget to the corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit.
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies.
Requires a member of the Legislative Assembly who has a relative or a member of the household who receives a salary for serving on the member's personal legislative staff to file a statement with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission naming each relative or member of the household and stating the amount of the salary each relative or member of the household receives for serving on the member's personal legislative staff.
Modifies the definition of "critical infrastructure" to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism in the first degree and domestic terrorism in the second degree.
Directs contracting agencies to give preference to a bidder or proposer who is certified by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management as an emergency preparedness partner.
Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses.
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt amendments to the state building code that mandate certain design features for new school facilities in a designated seismic hazard region.
Requires the Department of State Police to establish public exchange locations with certain requirements.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to offset unexpected increases in costs in repurposing buildings for veteran housing and housing programs.
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 the Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request a certain level of funding.
Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Program to be administered by the Oregon Business Development Department for the purpose of making interest-only loans to allow businesses with not more than 50 employees to hire new employees.
Allows a subtraction from federal taxable income of the gain from the sale of opportunity zone property, defined as property in a low-income census tract developed for affordable housing and held for a stated period of time.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025.
Permits employees who are not union members to voluntarily consent to make in-lieu-of-dues payment to a labor organization for the organization's representation of the nonmember employees in employment relations with a public employer.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
Directs a court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of a criminal sentence, evidence that the defendant committed the crime during an emergency, an evacuation while an emergency was in effect or within one year after an emergency ceases, provided that the emergency is related to a natural disaster and the defendant took advantage of circumstances related to the emergency, evacuation or recovery from the emergency.
Requires school districts to withhold retainage when entering into a public contract to provide services required by state or federal law.
Creates the Oregon Campaign Review Commission to investigate complaints of false statements made by candidates or political committees.
Requires businesses receiving more than 20 percent of gross receipts from public contracts to include a statement of the amount received with a tax return filed with the Department of Revenue.
Requires that a building permit must show a contractor's Construction Contractors Board license number if the contractor is known.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish an Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students.
Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position.
Authorizes district school boards to take specified actions to facilitate the creation and use of maker spaces.
Provides that the governing body of a county shall be a nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by the people of the county unless county voters choose not to do so.
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials industries.
Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under Article XI-E of the Oregon Constitution in an amount that produces $500 million in net proceeds for a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program.
Establishes the Task Force on Seismic Event Preparation.
Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to certain small cities for the purposes of studying, developing and capitalizing public transit systems.
Requires the Governor to interview at least one candidate from an underserved racial, ethnic or minority population when making an appointment to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland.
Directs the Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to establish a program to award grants to state certified appraisers and state licensed appraisers to whom the board issues a certificate or license on or after January 1, 2026.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to conduct a study on methods to mitigate the impact of technology support structures on the aesthetics of certain areas.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to annually assess the effects of provisions related to the disposition of hatchery-produced fish carcasses and report the results to committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement the creation of an interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the cost savings and expense reductions that may result from cooperative resource sharing by small businesses.
Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2037.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.
Clarifies the meaning of "provide consultative services" to require the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to provide incentive to small employers to participate in consultative services, to provide maximum allowable protection from fines and penalties to small employers that participate in consultative services and to promote consultative services to the small business community.
Authorizes the Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic development in rural areas of this state.
Restricts the number of personnel records concerning faculty members that a community college may maintain.
Provides that a state agency may not provide moneys to a county for capital construction unless the county attests that it will remain a county in the State of Oregon for a specified length of time.
Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.
Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.
Creates an income tax credit for employing up to three youth workers.
Modifies the educational goals of the state to take into consideration students' aspirations, to provide students with a well-rounded education and to provide students with sufficient instructional time to meet students' educational goals.
Makes corporations eligible to serve on juries.
Establishes the Oregon All Funds Crisis and Disaster Resourcing Task Force.
Creates a credit against personal income tax for the cost of a criminal history record check required by state law for a transfer of a firearm.
Creates an income tax credit for the unreimbursed expenses of teachers and adjunct instructors.
Grants the Governor authority to declare an economic emergency.
Establishes the Oregon Quality Education Model Modernization Task Force.
Authorizes reserve officers sponsored by a law enforcement unit to pay for training as police with cash and G.I. Bill education benefits.
Allows a school district or a public charter school to require a student to demonstrate proficiency in civics by a method other than completion of a civics course.
Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Commission within the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Authorizes local governments to adopt additional criteria to encourage energy efficiency and energy generation on property granted certain exemptions from ad valorem property taxation.
Creates an income tax credit for certain employers that are required to provide paid sick leave.
Establishes minimum education requirements for high school teachers of dual credit courses.
Creates an income tax credit for a member of a military organization that contributes financial resources to the Veterans' Educational Aid Account prior to the organization's dissolution.
Establishes the Task Force on Secure Pipelines and Associated Storage Units and Terminals.
Requires each city with a population of less than 200,000 to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2027.
Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish an eviction mediation program.
Establishes the Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Establishes review criteria for telecommunications towers to be applied by counties.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to report the amount of federal moneys the state receives for each dollar the state spends on outreach and programming for veterans and the amount of federal moneys received by service members and veterans in this state not later than December 1 of each year.
Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the online business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response.
Exempts motor vehicles with model years that predate by eight years or less the date of registration or renewal of registration from the requirement to be equipped with a certified pollution control system.
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to conduct a study of economic development in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and maintain a grant program to harden community facilities against man-made and natural disasters.
Establishes the Task Force on Renewable Diesel.
Establishes the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs the State Fire Marshal, the State Forestry Department and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from the fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and recovery from wildfires.
Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2035.
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study fire service professional training standards.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study community water systems.
Provides for additional forms of identification that may be used by a person to prove status as a veteran when applying for a veterans' recognition registration plate.
Provides that directors of the district school board of the Salem-Keizer School District must be nominated and elected by zone.
Establishes a correctional facility staffing committee within each Department of Corrections facility.
Expands the membership of the Emergency Board.
Directs the State Department of Energy to study laws related to energy incentives and provide the results to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026.
Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of the State Fire Marshal for personnel costs related to the Oregon Safety Assessment Program (OrSAP).
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs.
Requires public universities and community colleges to charge tuition and fees no greater than the resident rate for an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States and for a spouse or dependent child of an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Directs the Oregon Department of Aviation to study issues related to improving airport infrastructure resilience and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study military spouses.
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect of sentencing types on recidivism rates.
Authorizes the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue temporary professional licenses during states of emergency to individuals formerly licensed by certain professional licensing boards.
Establishes a Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities.
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study veterans.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to identify long-term recovery groups operating in Oregon and to provide grants for their support.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a liaison for each county to foster development of county-level organizations or networks to address emergency prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Grants a higher property tax exemption for the property of veterans with disabilities.
Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.
Requires the Department of Corrections to study issues related to post-custodial workforce development in this state.
Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study alcohol delivery.
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study the military.
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience.
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience.
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to the appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in this state.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state.
Authorizes the formation of a bridge district in the capital city region, consisting of Benton, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties.
Establishes the Task Force on Desalination.
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving ground transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Establishes the Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as an independent public corporation and prescribes the corporation's purposes and powers.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon.
Requires the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to study the adequacy of benefits offered to education workers.
Establishes the Oregon Desalination Authority.
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who has not attained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year for which a return is filed.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program, in consultation with the OregonServes Commission, to support and expand community volunteer programs related to emergency management in Oregon.
Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031.
Establishes the Oregon Public Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Disaster Response Fund.
Establishes the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission.
Removes the limitation on the types of degrees that may be offered by Western Oregon University, Southern Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University.
Requires a publicly traded corporation that makes a political expenditure of more than $100 in a calendar year to first obtain approval for the political expenditure from shareholders by an affirmative vote of the majority of shares entitled to vote.
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.
Permits the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to evaluate the risk the corporation has insured for employers during the past three years and reduce the premium the corporation charges the employer to reflect any reductions or mitigations in risk that result from an agreement between the employer and the corporation.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the means of granting a tax benefit to emergency management volunteers.
Provides that a percentage of dividends paid by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation are redirected to a fund for catastrophic disaster preparedness.
Modifies the uses for certain moneys received by the Oregon Racing Commission from Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs.
Authorizes a cemetery authority to elect to use the total return distribution method to fund endowment care of the cemetery.
Requires taxis and rideshare vehicles to have rideshare plates that have cherry red lettering and numbering.
Establishes the office of the district defender in each judicial district.
Requires the county clerk to publish a county voters' pamphlet for any primary and general election.
Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
Provides that, when reapportioning state House of Representatives and state Senate districts, elector registration from one major party shall be within five percentage points of the elector registration from the other major party, when practicable, so as to achieve five percent parity in at least 40 state House of Representatives districts and 20 state Senate districts.
Establishes the Secretary of State as the chief civics officer of this state and establishes the Division of Civic Engagement within the Secretary of State office.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement a program to reimburse companies that relocate headquarters to Oregon for tariffs paid on goods imported through the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study how different sources of moneys are used to provide veterans' services in this state.
Provides that a court that issues an order for the custody of a child must issue the order in writing within five days after the ruling.
Allows a public safety agency to charge fees to an entity that overuses the public safety services of the agency.
Establishes the Oregon Partnership for Resilience as a public corporation, the mission of which is to enhance the emergency preparedness of the state through innovation.
Prohibits continuing care retirement communities from banning certain acts of free expression in community spaces or common areas of the continuing care retirement community.
Provides that new construction in certain school districts must meet specified resiliency standards for the districts to be eligible to receive a matching grant under a certain grant program financed with the proceeds of Article XI-P bonds.
Allows a city with a population of 20,000 or fewer to bring lands into its urban growth boundary, under a temporary program, under lower requirements for the percentage of affordable housing.
Allows a city with a population of 20,000 or fewer to bring exchanged lands into its urban growth boundary, under a temporary program, without regard to the land designation.
Establishes a voluntary mediation and arbitration process that certain health insurers and providers may participate in if the insurer and provider are unable to reach an agreement during a contract renewal negotiation.
Provides that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may impound funds and eliminate benefits available to a judge that are not compensation to which a judge is entitled under the Oregon Constitution.
Co-sponsored
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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.
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.
Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
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.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
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.
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Expands offenses relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft system to interfere with official duties to include firefighting and search and rescue efforts.
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Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Establishes a task force on the recruitment and retention of case managers and adult protective services workers.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
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.
Requires community colleges to pay part-time facultya certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time facultywho teach comparable courses.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
Establishes the State Public Finance Task Force.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to various entities for food production and distribution.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
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 the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Creates the Westside Express Service Authority.
Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund.
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
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.
Adds school districts that apply for and receive a matching fund grant from the Department of Education to the definition of "qualifying agency" for the purpose of applying apprenticeship requirements in connection with constructing public improvement projects.
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Provides that a person shall receive a written warning for a first offense of speeding or running a red light if the conduct was captured by photo radar or photo red light cameras.
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify theft of a firearm as a crime category 8 offense on the sentencing guidelines grid of the commission.
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.
Appropriates moneys to fund the provision of fire response, emergency medical and law enforcement and public safety services by the City of Salem.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
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.
Specifies that the laws governing the storage of the personal property of homeless individuals applies to personal property removed from a public camping site.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
Requires all candidates for partisan office and nonpartisan office, regardless of political party affiliation or nonaffiliation, to appear on the same unified primary election ballot, with the five candidates receiving the most votes advancing to the general election ballot.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
Establishes the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a nonpartisan statewide elected office.
Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes.
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.
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.
Limits the applicant screening charge a residential landlord may collect to $20.