Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Annessa Hartman
Sponsored
Became law6
Provides that a pleading, an admission or a finding that criminal conduct constitutes a crime involving domestic violence is not an element of the crime for merger purposes.
Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Requires, for each dwelling unit rented by a landlord for which the source of drinking water is an exempt well in a ground water quality management area, that the landlord collect and test samples of drinking water from the dwelling unit for arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead and nitrates.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Provides additional data to be included by institutions of higher education in an annual report regarding allegations of sexual misconduct and violence on the campus of the institution.
Out of committee4
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to a nonprofit group for purposes related to interpretation of indigenous languages.
Establishes the Public Drinking Water, Stormwater and Sewer Ratepayer Assistance Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the University of Oregon and Portland State University for water-related research and grants.
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
In committee16
Modifies the meaning of "sexually explicit conduct" for certain crimes involving children.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to amend specified down payment assistance programs to increase eligibility by January 1, 2026.
Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions on the basis of minor status.
Establishes a cause of action for a buyer in a real estate transaction if the seller fails to provide the results of required well tests.
Directs the Executive Officer of the Commission on Indian Services to provide training on tribes and tribal relations at least once per calendar quarter.
Directs public bodies to change the name of highways that use the term "squaw" in the name.
Directs the Commission on Indian Services to employ a natural resources management tribal liaison officer to facilitate opportunities for integrated natural resources management between Indian tribes and state agencies with natural resources management duties.
Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to continue providing down payment assistance through culturally responsive organizations.
Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes.
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.
Provides that a person must be 18 years of age or older in order for the person to commit the crime of prostitution.
Increases the penalties for the crime of strangulation constituting a felony.
Creates a civil cause of action against a person who removes a condom without the consent of the plaintiff.
Allows a state agency to apply for and obtain a limited waiver to the prohibitions or requirements regarding state information technology assets and covered products if the state agency shows that a waiver is needed for the state agency or a contractor of the state agency to perform their duties.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for safety improvements at a specified intersection in Gladstone.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Clackamas County Children's Commission for a Head Start facility.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Allows a federally recognized Indian tribe located in this state to submit a request to the Governor for retrocession of Public Law 280 jurisdiction.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Establishes the Task Force on Tribal Consultation 2025 and specifies the task force membership.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Adds lands to a metropolitan service district when those lands are within Metro's urban growth boundary and annexed by a city in Metro.
Directs the governing board of a public university to ensure that background information about special campus security officers is requested from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training and reviewed before commissioning the officer.
Removes references to the National CASA Association.
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.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Increases the salaries of state court judges.
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.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund.
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
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.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Modifies eligibility requirements for distributions from the Children's Advocacy Center One-Time Grant Fund.
Requires the Commission on Indian Services and the Department of Education to study the Tribal Attendance Promising Practices grant program.
Permits certain exempt ground water users to withdraw up to 3,000 gallons of water per day for watering any lawn or noncommercial or commercial garden that does not exceed one-half acre.
Directs the Oregon Geographic Names Board, in consultation with federally recognized Indian tribes, state and local government leaders, local landowners and other interested parties, to compile a list of geographic features in Oregon that bear offensive names.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action against a person who transmits an intimate image to the plaintiff's computer or electronic device in certain circumstances.
Designates March 21 of each year as Nowruz Day.
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.
Out of committee · 22
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Modifies provisions related to finances, public contracting authority and composition of Willamette Falls Locks Authority.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee a housing developer's payment of system development charges that the local government has agreed to defer until after occupancy.
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 State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to fund the management of the Oregon SAE/SANE Certification Commission by the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to the Oregon Association of Water Utilities to provide technical assistance, or enter into a contract with a third party to provide technical assistance, to address the needs and vulnerabilities of small and very small community water systems, construct and equip a water utility training center and employ three staff to provide related support and resources.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grants to soil and water conservation districts that operate in certain counties.
Establishes the OregonFlora Program at Oregon State University.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Human Access Project for harmful algal bloom mitigation.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in the Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection Fund.
Directs the Department of Justice to disburse to certain obligees payments of support that have been assigned to the state beginning January 1, 2027.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to develop guidance for local governments on siting, and incentivizing the development of, child care facilities on or before December 31, 2026.
Requires specified agencies to consider the effects of a proposed action on older adult populations.
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.
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 Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
In committee · 11
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
Requires local governments to map sensitive uses as part of a comprehensive plan.
Transfers to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission the responsibility to develop a formula for the distribution of grant funds to counties for deflection programs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a thriving youth pilot program to provide substance use prevention education through comprehensive out-of-school programming and access to specialized mental or behavioral health services to youth in 20 counties in this state.
Repeals the prohibition on local rent control.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to commission a study on policies that may contribute to disparate access to homeownership.
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.
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.
Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects.