Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Nancy Nathanson
Sponsored
Became law4
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.
Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.
Removes the eligibility requirement for the low income rental housing property tax exemption that property of a limited equity cooperative be constructed or converted after the local governing body adopts the exemption program.
Expands requirements for the passenger rail plan.
Out of committee8
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon.
Prohibits a person or government entity that is not registered with the Oregon Health Authority from using a business or trade name with the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" or from holding itself out using the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" in any external sign or advertisement.
Directs the Oregon Cybersecurity Advisory Council to conduct assessments to address the reasons why public bodies in this state are unable to meet cybersecurity insurance coverage requirements.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expedite the process for enrolling behavioral health providers in the medical assistance program and study the feasibility of developing and implementing an automated, online tool for behavioral health provider enrollment applications.
Requires the State Chief Information Officer to contract for an independent assessment of the information technology environment within the executive department, to include recommendations for improving performance, operations and resources.
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.
Appropriates moneys to and limits expenditures by the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of State Police for implementation of programs related to criminal records checks, including the Rap Back program.
In committee13
Requires the governing body of a coordinated care organization to include at least one representative of a federally qualified health center and at least one senior public health official.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs.
Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.
Directs the Department of Education to review and update information collected for a survey of the academic assessments administered to the students of this state by school districts.
Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs.
Specifies qualifications for a physician who is among the majority of the shareholders or directors of a professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine.
Voids noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements nondisparagement agreements and nonsolicitation agreements between certain business entities and medical professionals, with specified exceptions, and prohibits the business entities from retaliating against the medical professional for violating the void agreements.
Requires the passenger rail plan to include strategies for upgrading and improving railroad track, strategies related to infrastructure and boosting capacity and information about federal grants sought and received.
Authorizes the Attorney General, at the Attorney General's own initiative, but in consultation and cooperation with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to investigate and bring an action against a health insurer or affiliate of a health insurer in a court of this state to enforce a violation of the antitrust laws of this state, to obtain damages, a civil penalty or restitution, and to enjoin an act or practice that constitutes a monopoly, a business combination in restraint of trade or commerce or a substantial reduction or elimination of competition or competitors within a region or market of this state, or that otherwise constitutes an unlawful trade practice.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Requires the office of Enterprise Information Services to study cybersecurity.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the effectiveness of current laws and rules governing the certificate of need process in this state.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, the mortgage interest deduction for a residence other than the taxpayer's principal residence, unless the taxpayer sells the residence or actively markets the residence for sale.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Prohibits a nonhuman entity from using specified nursing titles and abbreviations.
Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority under specified circumstances from requiring, as a condition of reimbursing the cost of the service, a primary care provider to order a covered care management service provided by a licensed registered nurse to a medical assistance recipient.
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
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.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Requires, for each dwelling unit rented by a landlord for which the source of drinking water is an exempt well in a ground water quality management area, that the landlord collect and test samples of drinking water from the dwelling unit for arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead and nitrates.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Changes the metrics for a homestead's real market value and the household income of a claimant in order to expand eligibility for the homestead property tax deferral program.
Out of committee · 4
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.
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.
Directs the State Department of Energy to develop an energy storage transition plan for the critical energy infrastructure hub.
In committee · 6
Authorizes the general manager of a mass transit district to appoint transit security officers to aid in the enforcement of mass transit ordinances.
Requires the Employment Relations Board to establish and maintain a registry system for persons to register as union representatives.
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Requires counties to approve a land use application to develop a mixed-waste facility on certain lands in the Willamette Valley.
Limits the applicant screening charge a residential landlord may collect to $20.