Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Mark Owens
Sponsored
Became law5
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring a Title V operating permit for certain air curtain incinerators.
Requires use of the state electronic reporting system to report deaths to the Center for Health Statistics.
Adds Grant County to the list of counties that may use road fund moneys from federal forest reserves payments for patrolling on the county's roads.
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department.
Permits certain exempt ground water users to withdraw up to 3,000 gallons of water per day for watering any lawn or noncommercial or commercial garden that does not exceed one-half acre.
Passed the House1
Directs education service districts to provide and pay for examinations administered to homeschooled children.
Out of committee17
Establishes the Task Force on Law Enforcement Interdiction Against Financial Scams on Older Oregonians.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire.
Directs the State Forester to determine the available state forestland, establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and manage available state forestland.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit organization or local government association to serve as a statewide rural community resource center.
Creates the Integrated Water Data Team.
Instructs Oregon Consensus at Portland State University and Oregon State University to support a process related to water management in the Chewaucan River watershed.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Water Resources Department for place-based water planning.
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.
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.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development, in consultation with the Department of Revenue, State Department of Energy and Water Resources Department, to study siting of energy facilities in designated critical ground water areas east of the Cascade Range.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for deposit in the Rangeland Protection Association Fund.
Prohibits the consideration of whether certain changes related to water rights would impair or be detrimental to the public interest.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon State University for purposes of the Institute for Water and Watersheds.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd range area.
Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce.
Renames the "Greater Harney Valley Groundwater Area of Concern" the "Harney Basin Groundwater Management Area."
In committee30
Limits the right of a parent to delegate parental rights over a child who is in the care or custody of the Department of Human Services.
Provides that a certificate to appropriate water may be assigned.
Requires the Water Resources Department to implement additional rules and requirements for the review of limited license applications for an aquifer storage and recovery permit.
Directs the Water Resources Commission to establish a program for compensating ground water right holders for voluntarily relinquishing all or portions of ground water rights in basins designated as critical ground water areas.
Creates a state and federal grants coordinator position in the Regional Solutions Program.
Directs the State Forestry Department to study funding for preventing, responding to and recovering from natural disasters.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to exercise good-faith efforts to enter into an agreement with the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management to establish and implement an access fee for use of Owyhee Lake Road.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildfire risk and impact reduction initiative program that awards grants to eligible local stakeholders.
Instructs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify certain areas as wildlife management units or herd ranges and undertake predator control in the wildlife management units or herd ranges until certain criteria are met.
Establishes the Task Force on Rangeland Wildfire Resilience and Risk Reduction.
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.
Provides that the storage of surface water for fire response preparedness does not require a water right application, permit or certificate.
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.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to procure and maintain vehicles for purposes related to fuel and personnel needs at certain airports.
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.
Makes permanent certain provisions related to water right examiner certification.
Allows a motorcycle operator to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to update the inventory of community infrastructure project needs related to the production of new housing and prepare reports on the inventory update and the processes and programs for maintaining inventories of, and providing funding for, drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure projects.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Water Resources Department for specified purposes relating to water resources data collection and monitoring for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025.
Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule standards for certification of sewage treatment works operators from nonreciprocal states, provinces or other certifying entities.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management in the Harney Basin.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study critical ground water areas.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study the use of voluntary agreements for ground water management.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues.
Makes certain changes related to voluntary agreements among ground water users.
Prohibits an individual from using a gillnet to land salmon in the main stem of the Columbia River.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study the decline of ground water levels.
Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Exempts the seller and a nonprofit, public body or tribe that purchases property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling certain units of land not lawfully established.
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.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot screening program and implement additional programs related to newborn bloodspot screening.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Modifies provisions of law related to the regulation and administration of water rights in this state.
Makes changes related to a water supply grant program.
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.
Establishes uniform processes for hearing contested case proceedings relating to the use of water.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Requires an agency that appoints a rules advisory committee with regard to rules implementing legislation to invite certain legislators to participate on the committee as nonvoting members.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Authorizes the Water Resources Commission to approve a Deschutes River water bank pilot program.
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.
Increases from 50 megawatts to 100 megawatts the minimum size that a wind energy facility needs to be before a wind energy facility is required to obtain a site certificate from the Energy Facility Siting Council.
Passed the House · 1
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Out of committee · 40
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.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Eastern Oregon University to provide university degrees to adults in custody at some correctional facilities in eastern Oregon.
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.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
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 program to award grants for recreational fishing facilities within an urban growth boundary.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to various entities for food production and distribution.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife out of the General Fund for deposit into the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Instructs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to aquifer recharge and aquifer storage and recovery.
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 Oregon State University Extension Service to develop a program for Spanish language pesticide education.
Allocates eight-tenths of one percent of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery to the County Fair Account and two-tenths of one percent of net proceeds from the lottery to the Horse Racing Account.
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.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Changes the requirements for an energy resilience plan that a county develops under the Act.
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 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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in the Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection 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.
Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Increases appropriations made to the Water Resources Department for the 2025-2027 biennium to fund positions related to water right transaction processing activities.
Establishes the Public Drinking Water, Stormwater and Sewer Ratepayer Assistance Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the University of Oregon and Portland State University for water-related research and grants.
Directs the Emergency Medical Services Program to develop a state emergency medical services 10-year strategic plan.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study avoided costs paid to qualifying facilities under the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act compared with the costs incurred by investor-owned utilities to acquire or maintain renewable energy generation facilities.
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.
Extends the temporary Oregon Business Development Department residential infrastructure grant program by two years.
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 · 47
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.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
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.
Allows battery-charged fences on properties not used as residences.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Amends landowner immunity provisions to focus on the activities and outdoor location of injured users and not the users' intended purposes.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
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.
Requires the State Board of Education, in coordination with Eastern Oregon University, to establish a pilot program to provide resources and support for students to access post-secondary education opportunities.
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.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
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.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
Provides that an irrigation district that receives a request from a user for delivery of a lower rate or duty of water during an irrigation season may not deliver to the user a higher rate or duty of water during the irrigation season than was requested.
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.
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 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 State Board of Forestry to allow the lease of land in Clatsop County and Tillamook County that is owned or managed by the board for telecommunications towers at the rate of $1,500 per year.
Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.
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.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study water banks.
Establishes a cause of action for a buyer in a real estate transaction if the seller fails to provide the results of required well tests.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct activities related to ballast water to prevent the introduction of aquatic invasive species.
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.
Provides that a person must be 18 years of age or older in order for the person to commit the crime of prostitution.
Allows students enrolled full-time in an Oregon institution of higher education to be treated as residents for the purpose of purchasing licenses, tags and permits issued by the State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Expands the crime of murder in the second degree to include intentionally or knowingly engaging in unlawful conduct that causes the death of an unborn child.
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.
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.