Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Virgle Osborne
Sponsored
Became law3
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies.
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.
Approves City of Roseburg and Douglas County 2024 ordinances that provided for amendments to the city's urban growth boundary, the city boundaries and the city and county's comprehensive plan and land use regulations.
In committee11
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the effects on small businesses of sales and use prohibitions on polystyrene foam containers, polystyrene foam packaging peanuts and foodware containers containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study the possibility of creating a gang database.
Requires the Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to prevent accidents in the future.
Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to classify xylazine as a Schedule IV controlled substance.
Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.
Directs a state agency to report to the Legislative Assembly when the agency conducts an external survey.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of certain land, mineral or water interests.
Directs the Department of Justice to report each year to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary on court cases in the previous year that have resulted in a judgment against the state or in a settlement that requires the state to pay money to another party.
Creates the crime of unlawful creation, possession, distribution or purchase of an explicit digital forgery in the first degree.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.
Applies to cities that have a population of 50,000 or less.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Modifies the exemption from taxable estate for the value of natural resource property as applicable to forestland.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Requires a person who is developing or repowering a wind energy facility to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration and, if applicable, the Federal Communications Commission, for approval for the installation and use of light-mitigating technology systems and, if approved, install the systems within 24 months or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
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.
Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city or county planning commission for commissions with more than five members.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Requires each public utility to include with each utility bill the phone numbers for the Public Utility Commission's consumer services and website address for the commission's online consumer complaint form.
Eliminates gallonage requirements for eligibility for nonretail cardlock dispensing of motor vehicle fuel.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items.
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.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Passed the House · 1
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Out of committee · 18
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Establishes the Task Force on Law Enforcement Interdiction Against Financial Scams on Older Oregonians.
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.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Union County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a program to promote the purchase of Oregon-made food and beverage products by persons in other states.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
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.
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 Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Exempts from property taxes personal property used by a business to generate or store energy for consumption by the business on its premises.
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 · 59
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.
Removes statutory provisions related to religion in public charter schools.
Prohibits the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from collecting a late application fee for the renewal or reinstatement of a substitute teaching license.
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.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
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.
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 a landlord to terminate residential tenancy upon third material violation or late payment upon 30 days' notice with no right to cure.
Lowers the disability threshold for property tax exemption for the homestead or personal property of veterans to 10 percent.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish an elk damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on certain multipliers of fair market value.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine.
Directs district school boards to ensure that the curriculum of each course of study offered by a school district is made available to the public on the school district's website.
Provides that a person who receives a finding under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal the finding to a county advisory committee.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify effective methods for teaching students with dyslexia.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer the Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Establishes an income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to distribute moneys for county veterans' service officers to counties that have a population of less than 30,000 and are or will be unable to maintain operations of county veterans' service officers due to budget decreases.
Provides that a person is automatically qualified to obtain a permit to purchase a firearm if the person holds a valid concealed handgun license.
Modifies provisions authorizing unemancipated minors to consent to health care services without parental consent.
Requires the Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
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.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Permits a person to operate Class I, Class III and Class IV all-terrain vehicles on highways that are not interstate highways if the all-terrain vehicle meets vehicle equipment standards and the all-terrain vehicle is registered.
Prohibits a public utility from increasing the public utility's rates or schedules of rates if the public utility has, for a period of three or more years, outstanding or contingent liabilities arising out of wildfire-related litigation.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
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.
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.
Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of farm or forest lands.
Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility.
Modifies the percentage of amounts that school districts must pay from the State School Fund to public charter schools that are not virtual public charter schools.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Directs school districts to teach about human biology related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb and to show related videos.
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.
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.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
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.
Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
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.
Directs a state agency to establish deadlines within which the agency intends to process applications for permits and make the deadlines available to the public.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
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.
Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects.