Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Jeff Golden
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Prohibits a person from publishing or causing to be published an environmental marketing claim, net zero claim or reputational advertising that is materially false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state.
In committee9
Directs the State Forestry Department to study funding for wildfire-related programs.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electric power.
Requires a distributor cooperative to implement a managed system for reusable beverage containers that achieves certain sales and return rates.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt standards requiring the underground placement of electric power lines.
Provides that parties that have caused a certain amount of greenhouse gas emissions are strictly liable to harmed parties for damages incurred as a result of extreme weather attributable to climate change or a climate disaster.
Prohibits the State Treasurer from renewing investments in or making new investments in a private market fund if the managers of the fund have stated an intention to invest in fossil fuels, subject to fiduciary duties.
Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program within the Department of Environmental Quality.
Provides that a person may request that the Department of Transportation include on the person's driver license, driver permit or identification card the fact that the person has a disability that interferes with the person's ability to effectively communicate with a police officer.
Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
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.
Passed the House1
Increases the fee paid for alcohol and drug screening specialists.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Prohibits the Secretary of State from publishing the residence address of certain individuals who are affiliated with a political committee on the electronic filing system maintained by the secretary.
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.
Prohibits a person that offers or sells goods or services online from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the goods or services that does not include all fees or charges that a purchaser must pay to complete a transaction for the goods or services, other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction, reasonable charges that the person actually incurs to ship the goods or provide the services or a service fee that is calculated according to distance or a purchaser's selections.
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 a natural gas utility to provide notice to each customer of the utility and the Public Utility Commission if the utility plans to increase the amount of hydrogen that the utility blends with natural gas and the ratio of the volume of hydrogen to the volume of natural gas will, for the first time, be greater than 2.5 percent.
Allows the Public Utility Commission to adopt a framework for carrying out performance-based regulation of electric companies and use incentives and penalties to induce electric companies to bring electric utility operations in line with the public interest and certain objectives.
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.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation.
Requires the Governor to appoint a United States Senator when a vacancy in the office occurs.
Prohibits the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Passed the Senate · 2
Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that an electric company incurs if a court or jury finds that a wildfire resulted from the negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the electric company.
Maintains current time standards in Oregon unless certain conditions are met.
Out of committee · 11
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 Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified purposes.
Prohibits certain proposed changes related to the appropriation or use of water that will result in the diminishment of streamflow.
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 Nonprofit Advisory Council.
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.
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.
Requires transportation network companies to pay minimum compensation rates to drivers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for distribution to seven entities to support the development of successful children in this state.
In committee · 10
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.
Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Creates a process for challenging a charge, finding of guilt, conviction or sentence, by filing a motion in the trial court or a petition for post-conviction relief, based on evidence that the conviction or sentence was sought, obtained or imposed based on race, ethnicity or national origin.
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.
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 persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigated land used for agriculture to annually report information about fertilizer application to the State Department of Agriculture.
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.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy.
Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program as an interagency response to the effects of climate change.