Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Rick Lewis
Sponsored
Became law1
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Out of committee2
Requires law enforcement agencies to take a DNA sample of a person arrested for certain crimes.
Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund.
In committee9
Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services.
Creates rebuttable presumption that equal parenting time is in the best interests of the child.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Increases sentencing guidelines for felony attempting to elude a police officer.
Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Establishes the Task Force on Investigations of School Employee Misconduct.
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
Allows a person who owns property on which a certain spring originates to store water from the spring for use for fire prevention and fire suppression if the person obtains a permit.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires an applicant for a license to manufacture psilocybin to submit to the Oregon Health Authority information regarding the ownership and location of the premises to be licensed or for which a license will be renewed.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Allows a county court or board of county commissioners in any county to establish a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat.
Provides the Department of Veterans' Affairs with authority to adopt rules to implement the laws concerning the unclaimed remains of veterans, veterans' spouses and dependents and survivors of veterans.
Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Modifies eligibility requirements for distributions from the Children's Advocacy Center One-Time Grant Fund.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity.
Passed the House · 2
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Expands offenses relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft system to interfere with official duties to include firefighting and search and rescue efforts.
Out of committee · 12
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution for the emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County forprograms for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the programs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Creates the crime of possessing, purchasing, making, delivering or selling a pill press or similar equipment.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study the consumption of ibogaine by certain individuals for the purpose of treating specified disorders.
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 · 27
Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
Removes notification and certain examination requirements that apply to children who are taught by a private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
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.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Directs the Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on a website maintained by the department.
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.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Creates a new way of committing the crime of theft in the second degree when the theft occurs from a dwelling or within the curtilage of a residence.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Authorizes the Oregon Public Defense Commission to contract with specified individuals and entities for the provision of public defense services.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
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 protections for a person who refuses to participate in a procedure related to abortion, physician-assisted suicide or gender-affirming treatment if the refusal is based on a person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
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.
Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205.
Directs the Division of Audits to conduct a performance audit of state agencies related to emergencies.
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.
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.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
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.
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.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.