Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Emily McIntire
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires a business that makes retail sales of certain nitrous oxide canisters to verify the recipient is at least 18 years of age.
Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use up to eight percent of the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or a regional air quality control authority from requiring a person to operate a human or animal crematory incinerator at a temperature greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Passed the House2
Broadens the description of what constitutes a health impairment for determining when a child is considered a child with a disability for purposes of qualifying for special education.
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Out of committee5
Exempts from state income tax all federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is a disabled veteran or member of a reserve component or the National Guard.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and maintain a registry for nonlicensed tutors.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for distribution to the Educator Advancement Council to support the Oregon Registered Teaching Apprenticeship Program.
Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
In committee35
Requires a student to demonstrate proficiency in specified Essential Learning Skills prior to the student being awarded a high school diploma or a modified diploma.
Creates a violation for failure to comply with compulsory school attendance requirements.
Creates the offense of a minor purchasing or attempting to purchase, possessing or attempting to possess or using in public an alternative nicotine product, inhalant delivery system or tobacco product.
Requires local government approval of a project to create, enhance or restore wetlands if the project would convert lands used for agricultural purposes to wetlands.
Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allowed to swipe a driver's license to verify a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks.
Modifies the timelines and requirements for when a school district makes a determination whether to give approval for a student to enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the school district.
Removes the requirement that a student must receive approval from the student's resident school district before enrolling in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the school district if a specified percentage of students in the school district already are enrolled in virtual public charter schools that are not sponsored by the school district.
Allows virtual public charter schools to be eligible for grants distributed from the Student Investment Account.
Provides a parent with alternative educational choices if a student fails to achieve reading proficiency by the end of the third grade.
Establishes the Task Force on the Oregon Public Education System.
Establishes the open enrollment process for school districts to allow students with an individualized education program or a 504 Plan to attend schools in a nonresident school district with the consent of the receiving school district.
Establishes an income tax credit for substitute teacher licensing fees.
Authorizes expenditures from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account for funding of regional career and technical education programs.
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.
Establishes the open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in a nonresident school district with the consent of the receiving school district.
Establishes the Task Force on High School Diploma Modernization.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Institute of Technology for an after-school program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for career and technical student organization grants and for activities related to career and technical education that can lead to high wage and high demand jobs.
Provides that a person may request that the Department of Transportation include on a registration card, driver license, driver permit or identification card the fact that the person has a disability that interferes with the person's ability to effectively communicate with a police officer.
Allows chambers of commerce, community-based organizations, industry trade associations, corporations and nonprofit organizations to sponsor a public charter school.
Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to certain students of this state.
Requires the Department of Education to transfer from the State School Fund to the Talented and Gifted Education Account an amount that equals one percent of the total amount available to school districts as general purpose grants.
Prohibits a school district from promoting a student in the third grade to the next grade level if the student does not demonstrate grade-level proficiency on a statewide assessment in language arts.
Establishes the State Commission on Public Charter Schools.
Creates a violation for failure to comply with compulsory school attendance requirements.
Reallocates how moneys from the Connecting Education to Careers Account for activities related to career and technical education are distributed to schools.
Requires school districts to have a school year of 175 days and to have a class schedule that operates throughout the year.
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with academic content standards.
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state.
Directs schools to prepare school maps for use by local and state public safety agencies responsible for emergency services at the school.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.
Establishes the Family Coach Program in the Department of Human Services.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Prescribes requirements for the identification of talented and gifted children.
Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allowed to swipe a driver license or identification card to verify a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Exempts, until January 2, 2030, lamps purchased by a school district from the prohibition on the sale of certain fluorescent lamps.
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 Oregon Health Authority to implement a program for providing to emergency departments in real time notifications that identify patients with hemoglobinopathies and provide information on how to contact a hematologist.
Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period.
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
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.
Passed the House · 2
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Directs education service districts to provide and pay for examinations administered to homeschooled children.
Out of committee · 25
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Educationfor a statewide education program for school business professionals.
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.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
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.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to the Oregon Association of Water Utilities to provide technical assistance, or enter into a contract with a third party to provide technical assistance, to address the needs and vulnerabilities of small and very small community water systems, construct and equip a water utility training center and employ three staff to provide related support and resources.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
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 Department of the State Fire Marshal to establish a grant program to facilitate the retrofitting of dwellingsto reduce vulnerability to wildfire.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases under the Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for deposit in the Rangeland Protection Association Fund.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to fund nine additional full-time staff positions to support student safety and adult accountability in the education system.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a program for examination and certification of operators of lagoon wastewater treatment systems.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildlife damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
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.
Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to establish an advisory committee to study the nursing educator shortage and make recommendations to address the issues identified by the committee.
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 · 44
Requires a commercial entity that engages in the business of publishing or distributing sexual material harmful to minors to verify the ages of individuals to whom the commercial entity distributes or makes available the sexual material harmful to minors.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
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.
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the STEM Investment Council, to conduct specified reviews for the purpose of developing and recommending standards by which technology-based competitive student activities may satisfy high school diploma requirements or career and technical education program requirements.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Requires manufacturers of consumer products that enable access to the Internet, that have operating systems that recognize the geographical location where the device is being used and that determine a user's age during setup to also have a parental control filter that blocks access to software applications and Internet sites that provide access to obscene material and to turn the parental control filter on automatically during setup for users who are younger than 18 years of age.
Enacts the interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify effective methods for teaching students with dyslexia.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
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.
Appropriates to the Department of Education out of the General Fund for the State School Fund an amount of money determined by the Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to ensure that the state's system of kindergarten through grade 12 public education meets quality goals.
Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Specifies that the laws governing the storage of the personal property of homeless individuals applies to personal property removed from a public camping site.
Authorizes the Department of Education to use moneys in the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to fund grants to manage programs of study in agricultural science and technology between school years.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
Enacts the PA Licensure Compact.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish by rule a five-year pilot program to license teachers other than career and technical education teachers in this state in a manner similar to the career and technical education teaching license program.
Requires a member of a district school board to file an economic interest statement only if the member receives a stipend from the district school board.
Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable electricity prior to retiring an electric power generating facility that provides reliable or dispatchable electricity.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for teachers.
Creates an income tax credit for the unreimbursed expenses of certain public school teachers and adjunct instructors.
Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to South Coast Business Employment Corporation to provide meal services to elderly individuals.
Establishes the Move Oregon-Idaho Border Task Force to document the state and federal legal and legislative processes that must take place to relocate the Oregon and Idaho state boundaries to include specified Oregon counties in Idaho.
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.
Directs each school district board to adopt a prevention curriculum that addresses child human trafficking.
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.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study the socioeconomic impacts of the removal of the Klamath River dams.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Establishes the Task Force on Investigations of School Employee Misconduct.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.
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.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant of $2 million to the City of Klamath Falls to bring commercial air service to a regional airport.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
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.