Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Boomer Wright
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides a credit against an employer's unemployment insurance taxes for calendar year 2025 if the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2025 is at least 2.5 percentage points less than the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2024.
Expands the justifications for a domestic water supply district to exercise the powers of a sanitary district.
Out of committee4
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Requires at least one member of the Research Vessel Council to be a trained scientist from the University of Oregon.
Provides for a waiver of tuition, fees and the cost of textbooks for veterans and the children of veterans from eligible post-secondary institutions.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Southwestern Oregon Community College to repair elevators in Tioga Hall.
In committee33
Appropriates moneys to the Charleston Merchants Association to purchase properties for the purpose of community development.
Makes changes to the definition of "appropriate bargaining unit" to clarify that athletic trainers are included in positions considered to be academically licensed.
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.
Prohibits the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from collecting a late application fee for the renewal or reinstatement of a substitute teaching license.
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.
Directs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to issue credits or adjust fees for angling tags and permits when an angling season is shortened or canceled, in proportion to the portion of the season during which the tags or permits may not be used.
Declares the state's public policy regarding the rights of a parent to the care, custody and control of the parent's child.
Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority from issuing a license to a food cart that does not have a licensed commissary as a base of operation.
Modifies when information about level two sex offenders and level one sex offenders may be released.
Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable estate exceeds $13.99 million.
Requires the Department of Education to contract with a third party to conduct a study to determine how to promote the effective use of instructional time for the purposes of achieving positive learning outcomes and promoting a positive classroom learning environment.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to specified cities to build infrastructure that will contribute to the development of housing under the program established by a 2024 Act.
Increases the additional amount paid for electric vehicle registration.
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.
Appropriates to the Department of Education out of the General Fund for the State School Fund an amount of money determined by the Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to ensure that the state's system of kindergarten through grade 12 public education meets quality goals.
Allows a partial exemption of ad valorem property taxes due on the owner-occupied principal dwelling of an individual who is at least 65 years of age and the individual's surviving spouse regardless of age.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to South Coast Business Employment Corporation to provide meal services to elderly individuals.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education to fund the Summer Learning Grant program.
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.
Directs the State Forestry Department, in collaboration with the Oregon Business Development Department and the Housing and Community Services Department, to study methods for improving active forest management in this state.
Appropriates moneys to the Western Lane Fire and EMS Authority to fund the remodel of one of its fire and rescue stations.
Appropriates moneys to the Mapleton Water District to fund the replacement of its water distribution lines.
Makes certain changes related to members of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center Board.
Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a public employee.
Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of providing a grant to the City of Lakeside to construct a wastewater treatment facility.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Provides that each of the cities of Bandon, North Bend and Reedsport may set charges for water and wastewater services provided by the city by a majority vote of its governing body.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
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.
Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing.
Prohibits selling or offering for sale a timeshare without a license.
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.
Modifies school bus stop arm camera law.
Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Requires use of the state electronic reporting system to report deaths to the Center for Health Statistics.
Modifies laws related to regulation of real estate professionals.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Makes permanent the plan of assistance for low-income customers for telecommunication services.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.
Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.
Requires a business that makes retail sales of certain nitrous oxide canisters to verify the recipient is at least 18 years of age.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
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.
Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items.
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.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age.
Passed the House · 4
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
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.
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 · 33
Directs the Department of Education to establish and maintain a registry for nonlicensed tutors.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Educationfor a statewide education program for school business professionals.
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.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee a housing developer's payment of system development charges that the local government has agreed to defer until after occupancy.
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.
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to community colleges and public universities in this state that offer on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related degree or certificate programs.
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 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 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 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.
Allows for additional distributions of state moneys to wildfire-impacted school districts for an additional school year.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
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 Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases under the Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to fund nine additional full-time staff positions to support student safety and adult accountability in the education system.
Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education.
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 Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Establishes a program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to promote workforce development initiatives in the trucking industry.
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.
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Removes notification and certain examination requirements that apply to children who are taught by a private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule.
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.
Modifies the definition of "vulnerable person" for purposes of civil action for abuse of a vulnerable person to include individuals under 18 years of age.
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.
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.
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.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Repeals the transfer of certain electronic records from the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State for purposes of voter 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.
Provides that a public body may not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct a study on voter registration in this state.
Requires the Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state.
Provides that an official or agency of state government may not discriminate or grant preferential treatment to any individual on the basis of gender identity, race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the application, selection or appointment of individuals to boards and commissions.
Requires a taxpayer to list information about persons to whom the taxpayer has paid compensation that is claimed as a business deduction on the taxpayer's federal income tax return.
Removes "gender identity" from certain statutes.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote for the first time in this state.
Requires a county clerk to cancel the registration of an elector if the elector registers to vote in another county, surrenders the elector's driver license upon being issued a license in another state or is excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen.
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.
Prohibits a massage facility from being located within 1,000 feet of a school or similar building.
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.
Allows virtual public charter schools that do not provide educational services through a for-profit entity that contracts with the governing body of the virtual public charter school to be eligible for grants distributed from the Student Investment Account.
Modifies provisions relating to administrative law.
Requires school districts to comply with statewide summative assessment participation requirements and to demonstrate improved student achievement on statewide summative assessments to be eligible for state funding related to the High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act.
Requires state agencies to waive fees for public records requests when the request is made by a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Requires a member of a district school board to file an economic interest statement only if the member receives a stipend from the district school board.
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.
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.
Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to certain students of this state.
Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
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.
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.
Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
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.
Establishes the State Commission on Public Charter Schools.
Reallocates how moneys from the Connecting Education to Careers Account for activities related to career and technical education are distributed to schools.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Modifies when the Department of Human Services may substantiate an allegation of child abuse arising from the restraint or seclusion of a student.
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.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills.
Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule standards for certification of sewage treatment works operators from nonreciprocal states, provinces or other certifying entities.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Establishes the Task Force on Investigations of School Employee Misconduct.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects.