Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Zach Hudson
Sponsored
Became law5
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.
Permits an asylum seeker who is a student at a public university in this state or Oregon Health and Science University to receive an exemption from nonresident tuition and fees.
Requires that a school integrated pest management plan be reviewed at least once every five years.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Requires the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors to include specified individuals in the search and hiring committees for a president of the university.
Out of committee5
Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in the Levee Project Grant Fund.
Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds to fund Columbia corridor flood safety projects in Multnomah County.
Requires the Department of Corrections to provide adults in custody at certain department institutions access to specific online educational programs.
Requires that moneys from the corporate income and excise tax kicker be used for the funding of school construction and maintenance projects and infrastructure improvements.
In committee20
Establishes the Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Changes the requirements to qualify for the Oregon Promise program by removing the requirement that a person must receive the person's highest level of education six months prior to enrolling in a community college, removing the requirement that a person must complete high school in this state, removing the requirement that a person must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better in high school and specifying that a person may qualify by enrolling in a program to earn an applied baccalaureate degree or a Bachelor of Science: Nursing degree.
Prohibits a person from raising octopus for the purpose of human consumption or participating in the sale or offer for sale of octopus that was raised for human consumption.
Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.
Prohibits a franchisor from imposing upon or collecting from a franchisee a fee that the franchisor did not disclose in the agreement under which the franchisor and franchisee established the franchise or in the disclosure document a franchisor must provide to the franchisee under federal law.
Prohibits a franchisor from requiring a franchisee to purchase goods, supplies, inventories or services from the franchisor or a source the franchisor designates if goods, supplies, inventories or services of comparable quality are available elsewhere.
Establishes Parkinson's disease registry.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to classify certain pesticides containing neonicotinoids as restricted-use.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation in this state.
Requires the Department of Education to study how school districts serve students who have been voluntarily placed outside the students' homes with public or private agencies.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes.
Permits a collective bargaining agreement to prescribe due dates for the payment of wages upon termination that do not require interpretation.
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Directs an insurer to consider only specified information in determining rates for a motor vehicle liability insurance policy.
Establishes an income tax credit for independent physicians.
Requires the Attorney General to study matters relating to state laws affecting safety and health in places of employment.
Exempts lamps used for the care of animals from a prohibition on the sale and distribution of fluorescent lamps.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a model list of low-impact pesticides for use with school integrated pest management plans.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to eligible entities to foster the recruitment and retention of behavioral health care providers at the entities.
Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state.
Requires health benefit plans and medical assistance managed plans to provide coverage with no cost-sharing for additional treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and prohibits requiring prior authorization.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
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.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to the Center for Public Service at Portland State University to conduct, in consultation with Oregon State University, a study examining the labor standards and working experiences of farmworkers in this state.
Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations to modernize the adequate service levels for early intervention and early childhood special education in this state.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Raises and indexes the cap for witness fees, expenses and costs for a claimant who prevails against a denial in a workers' compensation dispute.
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.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
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.
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.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Prohibits a supermajority vote requirement for any question related to a county or city charter.
Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.
Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.
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.
Allows an applicant for a public charter school that is a federally recognized Indian tribe in this state to directly apply to the State Board of Education for sponsorship.
Passed the House · 2
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Allows city and county services for which net local transient lodging tax revenue may be used to be provided either directly by the city or county or indirectly by a special district.
Out of committee · 33
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Eastern Oregon University to provide university degrees to adults in custody at some correctional facilities in eastern Oregon.
Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing a grant to an organization that manages a statewide strategy to re-enroll residents of this state into certain programs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Requires owners or operators of bulk oils or liquid fuels terminals to obtain a certificate of financial responsibility from the Department of Environmental Quality.
Removes the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability.
Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit.
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.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation to low-income individuals.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
Requires the Department of Corrections to enter into a contract, or renegotiate an existing contract, with a third party to provide voice communications services at no cost to persons confined at a Department of Corrections institution.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Provides that priority may be given to students in specified courses of study to participate in a pilot program to enhance the hiring of public university students by eligible nonprofit organizations.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program.
Creates additional rules and requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and a policy or certificate of health insurance or other contract providing for the reimbursement of the cost of a prescription drug.
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to give a grant to an organization to support first-time home buyers that purchase residential property to build equity ownership in the residential property through reduced interest rate loans and accelerated loan terms.
Expands purposes for the corporate excise tax credit allowed for affordable housing lending.
Authorizes lottery bonds for construction of the James Beard Public Market in Portland.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Directs the State Department of Energy to develop an energy storage transition plan for the critical energy infrastructure hub.
Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education.
Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take certain actions related to rocky habitat management.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Establishes a refundable income tax credit for the purchase of battery energy storage systems and solar photovoltaic electric systems.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
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.
In committee · 23
Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to study land value taxation and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in the Universal Representation Fund.
Allows virtual public charter schools that do not provide educational services through a for-profit entity that contracts with the governing body of the virtual public charter school to be eligible for grants distributed from the Student Investment Account.
Requires the Employment Relations Board to establish and maintain a registry system for persons to register as union representatives.
Prohibits the use of leaded fuel at race tracks in cities with a population of 500,000 or greater as of January 1, 2026.
Provides the timeline for payment of temporary disability compensation during an investigation of the compliance of the worker's employer with workers' compensation law.
Directs the Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit service providers to assist individuals who are noncitizens to change their immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Allows a worker to receive permanent disability payments and complete the appeal of a notice of closure while engaged in training.
Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Establishes certain requirements concerning aquaculture.
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for the amount paid by an owner of an eligible generation facility for transmission services.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact.
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
Adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill, operative July 1, 2026.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state.
Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Prohibits the distribution or sale of certain covered products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Directs the Department of Education to provide oversight of a program that coordinates an in-state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state.
Allows persons convicted of a felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
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.