Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Emerson Levy
Sponsored
Became law5
Directs the governing body of a school to consider the installation of a panic alarm system as part of the policies and procedures relating to school building security.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and make available a nonopioid directive form.
Defines "energy performance contract" and allows authorized state agencies to enter into energy performance contracts without requiring a competitive procurement if the authorized state agency follows rules that the Attorney General adopts, negotiates a performance guarantee and enters into the contract with a qualified energy service company that the State Department of Energy prequalifies and approves.
Authorizes the Water Resources Commission to approve a Deschutes River water bank pilot program.
Modifies the list of persons who may receive services and assistance funded by the Emergency Housing Account.
Out of committee6
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 the State Department of Energy to coordinate with other organizations, conduct outreach, establish a statewide navigation and support system, identify and address gaps and overlaps between programs and provide information in multiple languages, as part of the department's single resource for providing information and assistance related to available energy efficiency incentives and programs.
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 specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.
Creates the Task Force on Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to amend its homeownership development incubator program for specified purposes.
In committee20
Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.
Directs the Oregon Drinking Water Services of the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program for training drinking water system operators.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Establishes the Emergency Behavioral Health Services for Children program in the Oregon Health Authority to promote timely delivery of behavioral health services to children who present to hospital emergency departments in behavioral health crises.
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.
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for the amount paid by an owner of an eligible generation facility for transmission services.
Defines "wildfire risk" for the purpose of determining certain obligations of insurers related to homeowner insurance.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish clear administrative rules and internal directives with respect to permits or authorizations issued by the department.
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 knowingly or intentionally selling or offering for sale admission tickets that a person obtains by 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.
Requires a person that proposes to construct a building or structure located within 1,000 feet of an interstate pipeline to notify the Oregon Utility Notification Center.
Removes newspaper from packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware producer responsibility laws.
Creates a rebuttable presumption against negligence and liability for property damage, injuries or death that results from criminal activity in or around multifamily residential property if the owner or operator of the multifamily residential property implements certain security measures and completes certain training and assessments.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the Climate Protection Program.
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.
Makes certain changes related to the qualifications of directors of soil and water conservation districts.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the impacts of wildfire and smoke on the recreation and fitness industries, including the cost of property insurance, and on the ability of Oregonians to engage in recreation and fitness activities.
Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy.
Removes the requirement that architectural paint be collected by a stewardship organization to be excluded from the definition of "covered product" under the packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware producer responsibility law.
Makes counties approve applications to site renewable energy facilities filed before June 1, 2025, without applying the statewide land use planning goal related to agricultural use.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
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.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
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.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
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.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
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.
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.
Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.
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.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Modifies eligibility requirements for distributions from the Children's Advocacy Center One-Time Grant Fund.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department.
Establishes uniform processes for hearing contested case proceedings relating to the use of water.
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.
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.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a statewide shelter program through which regional coordinators are selected to administer funding to shelter providers.
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.
Passed the House · 1
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Out of committee · 13
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Environmental Quality to fund vessel inspections to minimize the risk of introducing aquatic invasive species into this state.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to develop a program for Spanish language pesticide education.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Defines "powered micromobility device" for the vehicle code.
In committee · 13
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.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
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.
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.
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.
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.