Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Fred Girod
Sponsored
Became law1
Creates a limited exception to water quality permitting requirements for a treatment works located within the North Santiam Basin.
Out of committee2
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.
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events.
In committee24
Prohibits the Higher Education Coordinating Commission from making any distributions during the 2025-2027 biennium to the University of Oregon unless the University of Oregon transfers to the commission for distribution to Oregon State University the balance of any receipts received by the University of Oregon from the athletic conference of which the university is a member.
Creates the Task Force on Real Property Title Fraud Prevention to study methods for preventing title fraud upon transfers of real property.
Changes the date of certain elections in presidential election years from the third Tuesday in May to the first Tuesday in March.
Provides that, for 10 years, revenues from the corporate activity tax are transferred to the Public Employees Retirement Fund for payment of the unfunded actuarial liability of the Public Employees Retirement System, instead of to the Fund for Student Success.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.
Requires public universities to establish a common application for undergraduate admission.
Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.
Requires state agencies that administer programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to deposit fees, assessments or other charges imposed pursuant to the program in the State Highway Fund.
Requires the Department of Revenue to make surplus revenue refunds, known as "kicker" refunds, in the form of a check.
Exempts removal-fill projects from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Department of State Lands if the person is required to and does obtain a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Increases the weight allotted for children in poverty for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Directs the Department of State Police to maintain a staffing level of at least 20 patrol troopers per 100,000 residents of this state, beginning on January 1, 2036.
Requires that ballots that are returned by mail must be received by the date of the election.
Directs the State Board of Forestry to convey certain state forest lands to a county that determines that the county would secure the greatest permanent value of the lands to the county and requests conveyance.
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 $13.61 million.
Declares a policy of the state to use zero-based budgeting in developing the biennial budget plan.
Reduces the rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers.
Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
Declares that the policy of this state is to include atmospheric carbon sequestered by the lands and waters of this state in any calculation to determine progress toward the greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Repeals the weight-mile tax.
Modifies the existing administrative rule review process to require legislative approval of newly adopted administrative rules in order for the rules to take effect.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to make special cougar tags available that allow the use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars.
Directs the governing board of public universities in this state to adopt a policy that limits the enrollment of students who have not established residency in this state to 35 percent of the total student population at that university.
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to transfer the proceeds of certain taxes, fees, fines, penalties and other monetary obligations the director imposes upon out-of-state insurers and insurance producers to the State Forestry Department for deposit into the State Forestry Department Account.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Requires use of the state electronic reporting system to report deaths to the Center for Health Statistics.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Modifies calculations of the fair market value of simple estate assets by excluding the values of manufactured homes from the asset limits for personal property and including the values of manufactured homes in the assets limits for real property.
Out of committee · 2
Grants higher property tax exemptions for the property of veterans with disabilities.
Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and accessing benefits and services.
In committee · 7
Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish a division for the purpose of identifying and implementing ways to better serve and protect drug endangered children.
Instructs the forester, or a forest protective association or agency that is under contract or agreement with the State Board of Forestry for the protection of forestland against fire, and whose protection area is or may be affected by a fire on nearby federal lands, to take certain actions to address the fire.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Requires school districts to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins.