Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Ricki Ruiz
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Raises and indexes the cap for witness fees, expenses and costs for a claimant who prevails against a denial in a workers' compensation dispute.
Out of committee8
Requires community colleges to pay part-time facultya certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time facultywho teach comparable courses.
Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing a grant to an organization that manages a statewide strategy to re-enroll residents of this state into certain programs.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit.
Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation to low-income individuals.
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a grant program for the purpose of supporting organizations to expand the scope and community reach of college access and success programs.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for the purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
In committee20
Clarifies that a rail fixed guideway system is not a commercial motor vehicle for the purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code.
Permits the testing of highly automated vehicles on highways of this state under certain circumstances.
Removes a provision that excluded certain temporary agricultural workers from grant eligibility.
Provides the timeline for payment of temporary disability compensation during an investigation of the compliance of the worker's employer with workers' compensation law.
Allows a worker to receive permanent disability payments and complete the appeal of a notice of closure while engaged in training.
Provides that each firearm possessed by a person committing the crime of felon in possession of a firearm constitutes a separately punishable offense.
Prescribes requirements that an organization that administers interscholastic activities, or that facilitates the scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities, must implement to address discriminatory harassment or bullying behavior.
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for a taxpayer that employs agricultural workers.
Modifies the tax credit allowed for wages paid as overtime pay to agriculture workers.
Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study policies and practices in this state for the suspension or expulsion of children in early childhood care.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.
Requires the office of Enterprise Information Services to study cybersecurity.
Prohibits a professional licensing board from denying issuance of an authorization issued by the professional licensing board to an individual based solely on the individual's immigration or citizenship status.
Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that a public utility incurs as a result of negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the public utility.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.
Establishes the Task Force on Community College Adult Reconnect.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study utilities.
Requires the Department of Transportation to offer the written commercial driver examination in English and Spanish.
Requires local governments to require at least one parking space per multiunit unit with limited exceptions.
Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of state funding for public education in this state.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Removes the annual cap on matching funds that an individual development account holder may accrue.
Prohibits landlords from inquiring about or discriminating on the basis of a tenant's or applicant's immigration or citizenship status, rejecting an applicant based on the type of identifying documentation or disclosing or threatening disclosure of an applicant's or a tenant's immigration or citizenship status for improper purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
Prohibits selling or offering for sale a timeshare without a license.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Allows an applicant for a public charter school that is a federally recognized Indian tribe in this state to directly apply to the State Board of Education for sponsorship.
Out of committee · 14
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish a program to award grants to child care resource and referral entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to a nonprofit group for purposes related to interpretation of indigenous languages.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
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.
Provides that priority may be given to students in specified courses of study to participate in a pilot program to enhance the hiring of public university students by eligible nonprofit organizations.
Authorizes lottery bonds for construction of the James Beard Public Market in Portland.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Requires specified agencies to consider the effects of a proposed action on older adult populations.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association for the purpose of promoting seafood in the public schools of this state.
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
In committee · 16
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.
Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier.
Directs the State Board of Education to adopt a requirement that approved recovery schools provide peer group supports for students of the schools.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care, upon request of one member of the Legislative Assembly from each major political party, to prepare a child care impact statement for proposed legislation or a state measure.
Directs the Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit service providers to assist individuals who are noncitizens to change their immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Modifies the meaning of "sexually explicit conduct" for certain crimes involving children.
Prohibits certain food and beverage items sold to students in public schools from including Red Number 3, potassium bromate or propylparaben.
Directs the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee regarding attendance improvement.
Requires the quarterly collection and compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.
Directs the Department of Education to review, make recommendations and develop procedures related to the recording of student absences and how school districts respond to student absences.
Directs the Department of Education to use moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to provide school districts with technology for data analysis systems for the early warning system.
Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving school attendance.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
Directs the Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office to hire permanent staff to convene affinity group task forces to develop recommendations on addressing health inequities.
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.