Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Jeffrey Helfrich
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to adopt rules establishing a procedure for recognition of prior law enforcement experience toward completion of required training for certification as a private security professional.
Passed the House1
Extends the time a person may file a written grievance that a governing body acted in violation of the rules and requirements for executive sessions.
Out of committee2
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Directs the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds for the Hood River-White Salmon Bridge replacement project in the biennia beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2027.
In committee19
Directs the Department of State Police to create and maintain a list of states that recognize Oregon concealed handgun licenses and require a demonstration of handgun competency to obtain a license that is similar to the requirement in Oregon.
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person.
Requires that for certain drug and property crimes, the court must require an evaluation and treatment as a part of probation.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Limits standing in appeals made to the Land Use Board of Appeals to those who reside or maintain a business in or within 25 miles of the boundary of the local government or special district and who have appeared before the decision maker in person at a hearing if available.
Directs district school boards to adopt a policy to provide for the safety of the students of the school district, including the assignment of school resource officers or the provision of other law enforcement coverage for each school of the school district.
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify sources of funding to pay for the costs of establishing a secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Requires the Commission on Statewide Law Enforcement Standards of Conduct and Discipline to study law enforcement standards of conduct and discipline.
Prohibits local governments from requiring the payment of a system development charge prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy for a dwelling within an urban growth boundary.
Requires that rules adopted by the Department of Consumer and Business Services with respect to the registration of farmworker camps be consistent with federal regulations governing farmworker housing health and safety standards.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Provides that a commission formed by local governments to replace a bridge crossing the Columbia River is a public body for purposes of the Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Authorizes a member-elect of the Legislative Assembly to recruit and hire legislative assistants to begin work on the first day of the month in which the member-elect takes the oath of office.
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.
Requires a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days of backup power.
Repeals the motor vehicle pollution control system inspection program, contingent upon the approval of revisions to the federal Clean Air Act state implementation plan by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies.
Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing.
Requires a contractor, as a condition of receiving public funds to install, repair or remodel a fenestration product or system in a public building, to have a national certification as a glazing contractor and at least one employee that has a national certification as an architectural glass and metal technician.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Passed the House · 2
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Makes remainder lands created by the lawful carve-out of lands by a recorded instrument into lawful units of land.
Out of committee · 13
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Union County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
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.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to develop a program for Spanish language pesticide education.
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 Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within the scope of their practice if the services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians, physician associates or nurse practioners.
Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund.
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 · 32
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority from issuing a license to a food cart that does not have a licensed commissary as a base of operation.
Requires a political subdivision that imposes an income tax to conform to statutory provisions governing the determination of net income.
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.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer the Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
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.
Modifies provisions relating to administrative law.
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.
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.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys available through the federal State Small Business Credit Initiative to Lit Motors, Inc., to fund the manufacture of electric vehicles in Oregon, with attendant economic benefits.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Provides that a state of emergency declared by the Governor terminates after 60 days unless the Legislative Assembly extends the state of emergency by joint resolution.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205.
Provides that tolling proposed by the Oregon Transportation Commission must be approved by electors before implementation.
Sets a minimum amount of security for persons charged with Ballot Measure 11 (1994) offenses.
Requires insurers to offer personal injury protection benefits to persons insured under the insurer's motor vehicle liability policy, but makes the decision to elect to receive personal injury protection benefits optional.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.
Requires that the sex offender risk assessment methodology take into consideration victim input and other specified information.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
Appropriates moneys to the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision for purposes of eliminating the backlog of sex offenders who have not yet been assessed and placed into a risk level.
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.