Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Kayse Jama
Sponsored
Became law4
Eliminates obsolete public entities and modifies laws about obsolete activities of public entities.
Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals.
Requires the Secretary of State to allow to be included in the translated version of each state voters' pamphlet that is made available on the website of the secretary or of a county the translations of a party's statement of arguments for the success of its principles and election of its candidates.
Transfers the authority to appoint a State Forester from the State Board of Forestry to the Governor, subject to Senate confirmation.
Out of committee2
Requires the Department of Human Services to contract with eligible entities to provide support services to refugees residing in this state, for up to 24 months, and immigration assistance and referrals to individuals who are seeking a refugee status.
Requires transportation network companies to pay minimum compensation rates to drivers.
In committee4
Prohibits a veterinarian from requiring the owner of an animal treated by the veterinarian to surrender the animal on the basis that the owner has not paid for the treatment.
Prohibits an animal shelter from destroying a dog or cat on the basis of a lack of space for housing the dog or cat.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Designates November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Requires the Governor to appoint a United States Senator when a vacancy in the office occurs.
Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.
Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 120 days of submission.
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to assist and provide support to the Oregon Building Officials Association to develop a proposal for establishing an apprenticeship program for building inspectors.
Directs the State Chief Information Officer to adopt a policy and procedure for state agencies to follow in requesting funding for information technology budgets and projects.
Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Out of committee · 6
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 health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
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 a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offered or provided by the hospital.
Authorizes cities and counties to impose a fee on noncommercial residences that are vacant for more than 180 consecutive or cumulative days in a calendar year.
In committee · 6
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Provides an alternative weekly minimum amount of workers' compensation benefits for temporary total disability.
Expands the radius for giving notices of proposed middle housing land division and requires additional content in the notices.
Requires producers of inhalant delivery systems to join an inhalant delivery system producer responsibility organization and implement an inhalant delivery system producer responsibility program for the collection and disposal of inhalant delivery systems.
Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205 or Interstate 5.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.