Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Gregory Smith
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study the feasibility of developing a centralized system for reporting compliance with prevailing wage payment requirements.
In committee7
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development in Oregon.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study the regulation of agriculture.
Prohibits a major residential contractor from collecting or retaining more than 50 percent of the original contract price before substantially completing a remodeling or repair of an owner-occupied one-family or two-family residential structure if the original contract price exceeds $40,000.
Provides a safe harbor for certain local regulations governing camping on public property against the cause of action otherwise available to challenge the objective reasonableness of such regulations.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study utility infrastructure.
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to transportation funding and present the results of the study to the Joint Committee on Transportation.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes the right of a resident of a residential care facility to organize and participate in resident groups, including an independent family council.
Designates February of each year as Oregon Truffle Month.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
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.
Modifies the requirements for the Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program.
Increases the salaries of state court judges.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Passed the House · 1
Requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on.
Out of committee · 22
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.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
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 Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for deposit in the Rangeland Protection Association Fund.
Modifies how the overtime cap is calculated for use in calculating the final average salary of members of the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
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 · 32
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes the involuntary civil commitment of a person with a substance use disorder who meets the criteria for involuntary civil commitment of a person with a mental disorder.
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.
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.
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.
Establishes the Wallowa Rural and Recreational Economic Development Board to develop and implement strategies for investment in workforce development, workforce housing and economic development in the Wallowa Rural and Recreational Economic Development Region, including a grant and loan program.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify effective methods for teaching students with dyslexia.
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.
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.
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.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
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 Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
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.
Specifies that electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard.
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.
Increases fees related to livestock brands.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
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.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
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.