Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Sara Gelser Blouin
Sponsored
Became law11
Requires the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill located in Benton County to conduct surface emissions monitoring and report data as specified in the Act.
Extends to all public bodies the prohibition against denying mental health services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Requires public employer employment policies to provide for a pay differential for sign language skills in the same manner that pay differentials are provided for other bilingual or multilingual skills.
Expands the definition of the term "potentially dangerous dog," for dog control purposes, to include a dog that inflicts serious injury on or kills livestock.
Provides that abbreviated school day program requirements do not apply to students in public charter schools if certain conditions are met.
Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation.
Directs the Department of Human Services to report each even-numbered year to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means about compensation to individuals who maintain a foster home or to child caring agencies that authorize proctor foster homes.
Allows a student's parent or foster parent to consent to attending an initial meeting regarding an abbreviated school day program placement by telephone or other electronic means.
Allows the parent or foster parent of a terminally ill student to consent to meeting once every year to review the student's abbreviated school day program.
Requires that certain billboards related to the state lottery include information about a problem gambling helpline.
Requires the Governor to appoint a United States Senator when a vacancy in the office occurs.
Vetoed2
Creates an exception to abuse of a child in care provisions when the suspected abuse was committed by the parent of the child in care.
Modifies the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights and the Oregon Foster Children's Sibling Bill of Rights.
Passed the Senate1
Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
Out of committee9
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.
Modifies the definition of "health care provider" for purposes of laws concerning job-protected leave.
Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition waivers.
Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the director.
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.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to disregard parental income when determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance if the child has a physical disability or chronic illness that requires a hospital or nursing home level of care.
Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt a methodology for payments made to providers of independent living transition services provided to foster children.
Directs the Director of Human Services to ensure that standards and procedures for the assessment and investigation of reports of child abuse committed by certain persons are investigated by a department program that specializes in training, investigations and safety.
Establishes the Task Force on Transitions into Kindergarten.
In committee21
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to a taxpayer that employs a foster child or a former foster child.
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.
Modifies provisions regarding subsidies for adoptive parents and guardians.
Directs the Governor to appoint a new head of certain agencies within three months after the Senate fails to confirm the reappointment of the head of the agency.
Prohibits the use of certain mechanical restraints on youth, adjudicated youth or young persons in detention facilities or youth correction facilities.
Expands the radius for giving notices of proposed middle housing land division and requires additional content in the notices.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish and administer the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and used to pay for certain services provided.
Requires the Department of Human Services or a law enforcement agency to electronically record certain interviews in child abuse investigations.
Requires the petitioner in an intestate estate to make a reasonable effort to find persons of a higher priority of appointment before the court may appoint a personal representative.
Directs the Department of Justice to report annually to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means and the committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary on the use of outside counsel to defend state agencies in lawsuits.
Requires labels on marijuana items and inhalant delivery systems that contain industrial hemp-derived vapor items to include that the minimum age for consumption or use is 21 years of age.
Prescribes requirements for sharing information, training and guidelines for student athletes related to symptoms of a cardiac event.
Prescribes duties to protect children and provide for children's basic needs.
Provides that enrollment in a remote learning program or an online learning program is voluntary.
Directs the Department of Administrative Services to contract with a disability protection and advocacy agency to develop and administer a certification program for educational surrogates.
Creates new requirements for the application process for a license, certificate, endorsement or authorization from the Department of Human Services for various providers of services to children, older adults and individuals with disabilities, and individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Prescribes when the Department of Human Services may admit a child in the department's care or custody for inpatient or residential treatment as opposed to placement in a congregate care residential setting.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraints and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Limits the total term of commitment and conditional release for certain persons found guilty except for insanity to the sentence the person would have received under the sentencing guidelines or as required by a mandatory minimum sentence.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant to the Chintimini Wildlife Center.
Transfers the office of Children's Advocate from the Department of Human Services to the office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Allows a school administrator or other staff member who is not a nurse to supervise a school nurse or registered nurse in a school setting for purposes not related to the practice of nursing.
Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Establishes the right of a resident of a residential care facility to organize and participate in resident groups, including an independent family council.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by January 31 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legislative Assembly concerning the soundness of the state's Insurance Fund.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Designates the month of April of each year as Oregon Native Plant Appreciation Month.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority or a coordinated care organization to make a determination on a request for prior authorization for medical assistance coverage for the cost to repair complex rehabilitation technology within 72 hours after receiving the request.
Adds electric wheelchairs and complex rehabilitation technology to the type of consumer equipment for which an original equipment manufacturer must make available to an owner or independent repair provider a tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating consumer equipment.
Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to refer a contested case for a hearing requested by a police officer or firefighter who is denied disability benefits within a certain period of time.
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.
Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports.
Establishes a community-based perinatal services access program to increase access to culturally specific and culturally competent community-based services during the perinatal period.
Expands the health insurance coverage of prosthetic and orthotic devices and exempts the Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board from the expansion of covered services unless the boards provide notice to the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Modifies the enumerated authority of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to include the authority to establish continuing education requirements for state court judges.
Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Prohibits per-visit compensation for home health care and home hospice care staff.
Provides that certain laws establishing crimes do not apply to the act of informing another person of the other person's civil or constitutional rights.
Passed the Senate · 1
Prohibits the increased cost or denial of a Medicare supplement insurance policy due to a preexisting condition and establishes open enrollment standards for Medicare supplement policies.
Out of committee · 17
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and the labor union representing staff employed in health services at the Department of Corrections, to conduct a market study biennially related to the wages and benefits of health services job classifications at the Department of Corrections institutions.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to create and distribute memorial plaques to schools in honor of Senator Peter Courtney's contributions in supporting seismic rehabilitation funding.
Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and accessing benefits and services.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Area Health Education Center program of Oregon Health and Science University for supporting the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Tsuga Community Commission for the Oregon Summer Star program.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition.
Establishes the Food for All Oregonians Program in the Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to children residing in this state who are six years of age or under and who would qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for their immigration status.
Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to distribute moneys to an entity within the Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Modifies the child tax credit by increasing the maximum amount of the credit and increasing income limits.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state, except from premises established as a store by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and licensed by the Department of Revenue or authorized by a local government.
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.
Exempts a county or other entity that operates a nurse-family partnership program from paying the nonfederal share of the costs of targeted case management services provided by the program to medical assistance recipients.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to impose certain fees for licenses and license renewals for animal rescue entities.
Requires an individual or entity to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority before the individual or entity may establish a new hospice program or expand or relocate a hospice program into a new service area.
In committee · 7
Exempts claims based on conduct that constitutes child abuse, or conduct that constitutes knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse, from the notice requirement of the Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Allows a person who has been deprived of rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Oregon Constitution or the laws of this state by a person acting under color of law to bring a civil action for economic and noneconomic damages and for injunctive or other equitable relief.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree.
Prohibits residential landlords from using certain software to set rents or occupancy rates.
Directs all state agencies, statewide elected officials and other entities to seek legislative changes only through legislative measures requested and introduced by members and committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Finds and declares that current and former members of the military and their family members possess certain essential military civil rights.