Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Anna Scharf
Sponsored
Out of committee4
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
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.
Requires the Department of Human Services to adjust for inflation payments made under a contract with a provider agency for the provision of services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Providesthat the tax collector for a camping site on a county fairgrounds that has not more than 50 camping sites with both direct electrical hookups and individual sewer hookups and that caters to tourists may withhold the state transient lodging tax collected for the camping site provided the tax moneys are used for the operation or promotion of the camping site.
In committee20
Requires the Department of Human Services to study certain adult foster homes.
Repeals restrictions on brassica production in the Willamette Valley.
Restores former provisions restricting the payment of unemployment insurance benefits to certain nonprofessional educational workers that were repealed by enrolled Senate Bill 489 (2023).
Exempts receipts from the sale of prescription drugs by all licensed retail pharmacies from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax.
Directs the State Fire Marshal to adopt standards that may be used by local governments to issue certificates for the purpose of authorizing mobile on-demand fueling.
Repeals provisions limiting brassica production in the Willamette Valley Protected District.
Instructs the Oregon Seed Certification Service of Oregon State University to continue to periodically produce, and make available to the public, the Oregon Seed Certification Handbook.
Provides that a manufactured-protein food product that bears a label suggesting that the food product is made from meat is misbranded unless the food product contains text disclosing that the food product is not made from meat.
Modifies provisions relating to administrative law.
Repeals the limitation on police officers initiating traffic stops for certain offenses related to vehicle lighting.
Expands restrictions on post-legislative service activities to prohibit receiving money or other consideration for advocacy on behalf of a public or private entity for changes in policy or funding for public or private sector programs or entities.
Requires the court to consider the defendant having a concealed face during the crime, with the intent to avoid arrest or facilitate the commission of the crime, as aggravation for sentencing purposes.
Requires video recordings of labor negotiations conducted by or on behalf of certain public bodies.
Modifies the definition of "farmworker camp" so that the relevant statutes apply to farmworker camps specifically in connection with workers who work on a seasonal or temporary basis.
Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands.
Requires a person that plants turf type perennial ryegrass or turf type tall fescue in a field for sale as agricultural seed to register the field with, and make an annual report to, Oregon State University.
Directs data centers to report water and electricity used to the Water Resources Department and the State Department of Energy.
Permits a public official to establish a specific purpose account for purposes of expending donations of funds to the account for specified emergency expenses.
Adds an exemption from public record disclosures for data and electronic records collected by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission regarding the sale of items other than distilled liquor.
Prohibits strikes by public employees.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs the Department of Human Services to maintain an inventory of appropriate carriers for the transportation of a foster child's personal belongings.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Requires the Secretary of State to study changes to the United States Postal Service.
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.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Vetoed · 1
Enacts the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact.
Passed the House · 1
Establishes when homeowners and condominium association assessments accrue on property deeded to the county in the tax foreclosure process.
Out of committee · 15
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Establishes a task force on the recruitment and retention of case managers and adult protective services workers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for allocation to Oregon State University to fund the agricultural experiment station and branch stations, the Oregon State University Extension Service and the Forest Research Laboratory.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County forprograms for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the programs.
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 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.
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 Fish and Wildlife to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd range area.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildlife damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
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 · 50
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amends landowner immunity provisions to focus on the activities and outdoor location of injured users and not the users' intended purposes.
Allows a landlord to terminate residential tenancy upon third material violation or late payment upon 30 days' notice with no right to cure.
Requires an applicant for change of name who has been convicted of some crimes to prove necessity of name change by clear and convincing evidence.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the State Department of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding for the administration and enforcement of the safety and health standards for agricultural labor housing.
Provides that a fixed percentage of certain forecasted video lottery revenues be transferred to counties for economic development.
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.
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.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Establishes an income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Removes the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
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.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Provides for additional forms of identification that may be used by a person to prove status as a veteran when applying for a veterans' recognition registration plate.
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.
Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Prohibits a county clerk from using certain information provided by the Department of Transportation or the Oregon Health Authority to update any registration information for an elector who is already registered to vote.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
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.
Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes.
Increases the penalties for the crime of strangulation constituting a felony.
Creates a civil cause of action against a person who removes a condom without the consent of the plaintiff.
Increases fees related to livestock brands.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes Benton County, Linn County and Polk County, in addition to Marion County, to take specified actions with respect to solid waste and solid waste sites or facilities.
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.