Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
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Became law4
Adds entities in which employees of the entity own at least 50 percent of the ownership interest in the entity directly or through an employee stock ownership plan to the list of sources to which a contracting agency may give preference in procuring goods or services for public contracts.
Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.
Allows the State Board of Massage Therapists to post a placard on the exterior of a massage facility found to have committed specified violations.
Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.
Out of committee7
Requires owners or operators of bulk oils or liquid fuels terminals to obtain a certificate of financial responsibility from the Department of Environmental Quality.
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to update the statewide land use planning goal relating to "citizen involvement" by rule byJune 30, 2029.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction prevention services.
Requires medical assistance to include continuous glucose monitors for specified recipients of medical assistance.
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a pilot program to allow up to 30 adult foster homes meeting specified requirements to care for up to seven residents.
Directs the State Department of Energy to develop an energy storage transition plan for the critical energy infrastructure hub.
Requires specified agencies to consider the effects of a proposed action on older adult populations.
In committee14
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools.
Requires local governments to map sensitive uses as part of a comprehensive plan.
Removes the limits on the duration of medical services, the number of visits and the areas of practice for chiropractic physicians serving as attending physicians in workers' compensation claims.
Requires a policy or certificate of health insurance or health care services contract offered by a health care service contractor in this state, state medical assistance and health benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to cover certain treatments for an obesity diagnosis with certain requirements.
Establishes the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday in this state.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a program for the purpose of providing to credentialing organizations access to information that is necessary to credential or recredential health care practitioners.
Prohibits receiving compensation for performing certain services for or on behalf of an applicant or a claimant for a veteran's benefit except as provided in applicable federal or state law.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study reimbursement rates in the state's medical assistance program.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to create and maintain a registry of persons who are able and willing to provide emergency volunteer services.
Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study public health impacts of land use and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Requires the Department of State Police to study whether firearm hold agreements reduce firearm risks.
Requires a law enforcement agency to provide notice to a landlord after responding to an incident at a rental unit and to provide a copy of any police report to the landlord.
Allows the Oregon Health Authority to approve as cultural competency continuing education opportunities relating to suicide prevention.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer.
Extends the assessment on earnings from health plan premiums, the assessment on payments by the Oregon Health Authority to managed care organizations, the assessment on hospitals and the Oregon Reinsurance Program.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to the Center for Public Service at Portland State University to conduct, in consultation with Oregon State University, a study examining the labor standards and working experiences of farmworkers in this state.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program.
Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations to modernize the adequate service levels for early intervention and early childhood special education in this state.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Directs the Employment Relations Board to impose civil penalties against a public employer that has a history of failing to comply with certain requirements under the Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Establishes joint and several liability for landowners under certain circumstances involving the operation of farmworker camps.
Transfers moneys from the Senior Property Tax Deferral Revolving Account to the Healthy Homes Repair Fund for the purpose of supporting seniors and individuals with disabilities and to the Department of Revenue to increase public knowledge of property tax deferral programs.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Modifies provisions relating to demands for correction or retraction of a defamatory statement published in an electronic newspaper, magazine or other periodical.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action against a person who transmits an intimate image to the plaintiff's computer or electronic device in certain circumstances.
Designates March 21 of each year as Nowruz Day.
Passed the House · 3
Prohibits the Adjutant General from assisting or allowing the United States Department of Defense or any branch thereof to communicate with any individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard for purposes of calling the individual or unit into active service unless the active service is for a certain listed reason.
Allows city and county services for which net local transient lodging tax revenue may be used to be provided either directly by the city or county or indirectly by a special district.
Provides that an electric company that is found to be liable for damages in a civil action arising out of allegations that the conduct of the electric company caused or substantially contributed to a wildfire shall also be liable for any federal income tax liability that a plaintiff or class member owes or pays on amounts the plaintiff or class member receives in relation to the civil action.
Out of committee · 10
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.
Establishes the Task Force on Reparations and directs the task force to study and develop proposals for financial and nonfinancial reparations for Oregonians of African-American descent, develop appropriate methods for educating the public about the task force's findings and recommend appropriate remedies based on the task force's findings.
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.
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.
Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks.
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Human Access Project for harmful algal bloom mitigation.
Provides for a waiver of tuition, fees and the cost of textbooks for veterans and the children of veterans from eligible post-secondary institutions.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
In committee · 10
Authorizes the general manager of a mass transit district to appoint transit security officers to aid in the enforcement of mass transit ordinances.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in the Universal Representation Fund.
Directs the Secretary of State to maintain an online database of notarial acts.
Requires more information to be included on a certificate of a notarial act and certain other documents.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Permits an individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections.
Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.
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.