Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Cyrus Javadi
Sponsored
Became law3
Eliminates gallonage requirements for eligibility for nonretail cardlock dispensing of motor vehicle fuel.
Requires an individual who uses the title "doctor" in connection with a health care profession to designate on specified material, including social media and professional name badges, the health care profession in which the individual earned a doctoral degree.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age.
Passed the House1
Establishes when homeowners and condominium association assessments accrue on property deeded to the county in the tax foreclosure process.
Out of committee2
Authorizes a driver improvement course as an alternative to conviction of a traffic violation for a person 18 years of age or less whose driving record shows no prior convictions of traffic offenses.
Establishes the Seniors Emergency Dental Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide certain emergency dental services to eligible low-income seniors without any corresponding copayments, deductibles or cost sharing required.
In committee13
Directs the State Board of Forestry to allow the lease of land in Clatsop County and Tillamook County that is owned or managed by the board for telecommunications towers at the rate of $1,500 per year.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Requires schools and school districts to offer lunch and, when applicable, breakfast at no charge.
Creates a procedure for a minor who is at least 14 years old to intervene and move the court to suspend or terminate the parenting time of parent against whom the Department of Human Services has substantiated an allegation of abuse.
Provides that a health care facility is not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of a product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the health care facility was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.
Provides that taxing districts within counties with high averaged annual ratios of tourists to residents may expend a certain percentage of net transient lodging taxes for essential services that benefit both residents and tourists.
Provides that a camping site is not "established" until it has been continuously occupied for 72 hours for purposes of the rule requiring 72-hour notice before homeless individuals may be removed from the camping site.
Extends the permissible uses of net revenue from a new or increased local transient lodging tax to include public safety services and certain costs related to "community infrastructure."
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold inhalant delivery systems in this state unless the inhalant delivery systems are listed in a directory maintained by the Attorney General.
Prohibits out-of-network providers from balance billing for pediatric care in certain circumstances.
Requires a group or individual health benefit plan, policy or contract, including plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board or the Oregon Educators Benefit Board, to reimburse out-of-network providers the same as in-network providers for pediatric care and prohibits additional out-of-pocket costs for pediatric care.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study staffing plans for hospitals.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to approve the transfer of 500 or more members of a coordinated care organization or dental care organization if the transfer meets specified conditions, unless the transfer diminishes patient care.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires that each public member of the Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots be a resident of this state.
Prohibits the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 28
Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
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.
Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances.
Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
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.
Requires a dental laboratory to register with the Health Licensing Office.
Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Prohibits a nonhuman entity from using specified nursing titles and abbreviations.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse pharmacies and pharmacists in the same manner as other health care providers for certain services related to HIV treatment.
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.
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 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.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and make available a nonopioid directive form.
Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs.
Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period.
Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan reimbursement of ambulance services.
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.
Requires residential landlords to offer a method of accessing the dwelling unit other than software on tenant-owned phones or other electronic devices for the dwelling to be considered habitable.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items.
Allows a physician or physician associate to use telemedicine to practice medicine or provide health care services under specified circumstances to a patient located out of state.
Designates March 21 of each year as Nowruz Day.
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility.
Expands the justifications for a domestic water supply district to exercise the powers of a sanitary district.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Passed the House · 6
Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor.
Requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on.
Allows the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to include as eligible providers physicians who practice anesthesiology and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the health care provider incentive program.
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.
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 · 31
Adds mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
Establishes the Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse dental care organizations for dental services provided to medical assistance recipients at a rate no less than 59.8 percent of the average rate paid by insurers nationwide.
Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legislative Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative Assembly to review a specified number of proposed measures sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a voluntary pilot program where participating hospitals may screen an eligible individual for hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis when the eligible individual undergoes a blood test or analysis as part of medical care received within an emergency department.
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.
Requires medical assistance to include continuous glucose monitors for specified recipients of medical assistance.
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 for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association to be used to replicate the success of the 100% Fish Project of the Iceland Ocean Cluster in utilizing fish for nonfood product manufacturing.
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.
Modifies provisions regarding who can act as a health care representative for an incapacitated person who has not appointed a health care representative or does not have an advance directive.
Requires prescription drug manufacturers to report to the Department of Consumer and Business Services the total number of consumers to which the manufacturer offered a patient assistance program who participated in the program, notwithstanding any increase in the price of the prescription drug for which the manufacturer offered the program.
Directs the State Forester to determine the available state forestland, establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and manage available state forestland.
Provides that an operator may require a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to guarantee against losses in mortgage loans that lenders extend to first-time home buyers.
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Increases the amount of total tax credits allowed for certified film production development contributions made to the Oregon Production Investment Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in the Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection Fund.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association for the purpose of promoting seafood in the public schools of this state.
Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.
Renames the "Greater Harney Valley Groundwater Area of Concern" the "Harney Basin Groundwater Management Area."
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
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 · 42
Limits to 25 the number of legislative measures that a member of the Legislative Assembly may ask the Legislative Counsel to prepare for a regular session of the Legislative Assembly that begins in an odd-numbered year.
Establishes certain health insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis therapy for certain intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses with the same requirements for coverage as autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.
Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
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.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Prohibits insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with a felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Enacts the interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Requires that lands zoned to allow density of one or fewer dwellings per acre to be considered a rural use.
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.
Extends the statutory timeline for inspection of public records when the exemption is based on attorney-client privilege.
Prohibits health benefit plans from requiring step therapy prior to covering a prescription drug for the treatment of metastatic cancer and associated conditions.
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.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Enacts the PA Licensure Compact.
Requires the Public Employees' Benefit Board to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the cost of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Requires the Oregon Educators' Benefit Board to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the cost of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact.
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.
Requires school districts to have a school year of 175 days and to have a class schedule that operates throughout the year.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to award grants to community-based organizations to conduct a public health campaign on the negative health effects of using betel nuts.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Requires public bodies and law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws with respect to any individual who is convicted of a violent felony or Class A misdemeanor or felony sexual offense.
Modifies the definition of "recovery" in the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act.
Requires 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.
Allows landlords to terminate month-to-month residential tenancies without cause.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
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.
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.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.