Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
E. Werner Reschke
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides for standing for an association or organization to seek declaratory relief in the Oregon Tax Court.
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.
In committee50
Increases the threshold amount of understated income tax above which a penalty applies.
Requires a political subdivision that imposes an income tax to conform to statutory provisions governing the determination of net income.
Establishes the Task Force on Tax Competitiveness.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Establishes December 21, 2017, as the connection date for the Internal Revenue Code sections governing bonus depreciation and deduction of net business interest.
Repeals the corporate minimum tax.
Eliminates the general rule that a sale made to a state where a taxpayer is not taxable is considered a sale in Oregon for the apportionment of business income for corporate excise tax purposes.
Provides that the threshold of the highest personal income tax bracket and the corporate excise tax bracket threshold are adjusted for inflation.
Restores the corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities at an increased maximum amount.
Exempts certain agricultural commodities from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax.
Removes notification and certain examination requirements that apply to children who are taught by a private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
Repeals provisions of the paid family and medical leave insurance program.
Provides that a person shall receive a written warning for a first offense of speeding or running a red light if the conduct was captured by photo radar or photo red light cameras.
Modifies the disposition of revenues received under the corporate activity tax.
Repeals the prohibition on the use of public resources to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Requires each public body that collects and maintains personal information about individuals to collect and maintain information on each individual's immigration or citizenship status.
Prohibits a person from engaging in or refusing to engage in an economic relationship with a resident of this state, or allowing or barring the resident from entry into a place of public accommodation, on the basis of or with reference to any score, rating, appraisal, assessment or other evaluation of the resident's social standing or reputation, adherence to or expression of a religious, moral or political belief or doctrine, compliance with a public health mandate or exercise of a constitutionally protected right, including the right to free expression or freedom of association or assembly.
Creates an income tax credit for providing employees of hotels and inns human trafficking awareness training.
Finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to combat antisemitism.
Creates the crime of harmful communication with a minor.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for interest received by financial institutions from loans made for purchase or improvement of agricultural real estate, rural residences and coastal fishing boats.
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.
Prohibits the Oregon Investment Council, the State Treasurer and managers from considering nonfinancial factors when directing or managing the investment of the Public Employees Retirement Fund.
Repeals the public purpose charge and public purpose expenditure standard for electric companies and Oregon Community Power.
Prohibits abortions unless a health care provider first performs an ultrasound on the pregnant person, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Directs each school district board to adopt a prevention curriculum that addresses child human trafficking.
Requires that a person provide proof of lawful status in the United States before the Department of Transportation issues a noncommercial driver license, a noncommercial driver permit or an identification card.
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.
Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning a ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Allows landlords to terminate month-to-month residential tenancies without cause.
Provides that elections on local option tax measures shall be held only on the date of general elections in even-numbered years, with one exception for certain measures seeking to extend current local option taxes.
Requires ballot title statements to include certain information regarding the effects of proposed local option tax measures.
Establishes the date and process for a special election to be held on November 4, 2025, for electors to approve or reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would require future constitutional amendments or revisions to obtain a three-fifths majority vote of the votes cast for adoption.
Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent.
Authorizes the Governor to commute a person's prison sentence to allow for the removal of the person.
Prohibits Housing and Community Services Department program funds from being used on unauthorized noncitizens.
Prohibits the claiming of an earned income tax credit by a taxpayer using an individual taxpayer identification number in lieu of a Social Security number.
Repeals the requirement that certain health insurers and medical assistance programs provide health care benefits for gender-affirming health care services.
Repeals the requirement to secure firearms in specified circumstances.
Requires school districts to excuse a student for a released time course.
Requires application stores and developers to verify the age of users and categorize them accordingly.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to place a monument within the State Capitol State Park commemorating the Ten Commandments.
Repeals some of the provisions of Senate Bill 1008 (2019).
Removes the 15-year limitation on the carryforward of net operating losses by corporate excise taxpayers.
Renames the Cover All People program as the Cover All Children program and removes program eligibility for adults who would qualify for the state medical assistance program but for their immigration status.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Designates Election Day as a legal holiday on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by January 31 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legislative Assembly concerning the soundness of the state's Insurance Fund.
Passed the Senate1
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving federal retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who hasattained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Exempts, until January 2, 2030, lamps purchased by a school district from the prohibition on the sale of certain fluorescent lamps.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
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.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
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.
Requires a business that makes retail sales of certain nitrous oxide canisters to verify the recipient is at least 18 years of age.
Requires the Secretary of State to study changes to the United States Postal Service.
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.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Modifies provisions relating to demands for correction or retraction of a defamatory statement published in an electronic newspaper, magazine or other periodical.
Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Passed the House · 4
Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor.
Allows the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to include as eligible providers physicians who practice anesthesiology and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the health care provider incentive program.
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Directs education service districts to provide and pay for examinations administered to homeschooled children.
Out of committee · 29
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.
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.
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.
Establishes theCARE Program within the Youth Development Division to support families and reduce barriers that contribute to absence from school and a lack of basic needs.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for purpose of funding the advanced esthetics program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.
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.
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 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 an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
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.
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.
Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce.
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.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
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.
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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.
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 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.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
Declares the state's public policy regarding the rights of a parent to the care, custody and control of the parent's child.
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.
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.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
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.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
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.
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 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 school districts to give parents, guardians and district residents equitable access to instructional materials for the purpose of examining the materials.
Provides that a person is automatically qualified to obtain a permit to purchase a firearm if the person holds a valid concealed handgun license.
Directs the Department of Justice to review state statutes and administrative rules and determine whether each statute or rule is likely to be found unconstitutional under the reasoning and interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution set forth in the Students for Fair Admissions case decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Provides that a public body may not collect certain information about a person's views, associations or activities without consent.
Increases the additional amount paid for electric vehicle registration.
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.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote for the first time in this state.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote in this state.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation.
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.
Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold inhalant delivery systems in this state unless the inhalant delivery systems are listed in a directory maintained by the Attorney General.
Requires the Department of Education to study the statutory requirements related to reports of abuse and sexual conduct in public schools.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Requires labor negotiations conducted by or on behalf of public bodies to be conducted in open meetings.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study the socioeconomic impacts of the removal of the Klamath River dams.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Creates a property tax exemption for the owner-occupied principal dwelling of seniors who are at least 65 years of age, have resided in the dwelling for at least 10 years and have a household income not greater than $150,000 per year.
Requires a person that provides debt resolution services to consumers in this state to register with the Department of Consumer and Business Services and regulates the activities of debt resolution service providers.
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.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax in order to account for inflation in the calculation of a taxable estate.
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.
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.
Provides that veterinary facilities do not qualify as animal rescue entities for purposes of regulating animal rescue entities.
Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.
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.