Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Todd Nash
Sponsored
Became law6
Directs the field offices of the Department of Transportation located in rural counties to prioritize requests for drive tests when the request is from an applicant who lives in rural Oregon or within 50 miles of the field office.
Authorizes the Water Resources Department to approve applications by certain water districts within the Walla Walla basin to lease existing water rights for temporary conversion to in-stream water rights if certain conditions exist and the department makes certain determinations.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation.
Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
Increases the maximum fee for activating a brand.
Requires the Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service to establish a lumber grading training pilot program.
Vetoed1
Allows an individual to verify whether cattle are pregnant without holding a valid license issued by the Oregon State Veterinary Medical Examining Board under certain circumstances.
Out of committee11
Requires the State of Oregon to contribute a 50 percent match for every donation of $10,000 or more made to the Oregon State University Foundation for the express purpose of supporting agricultural research with emphasis on cereal grains, to the extent moneys are available.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer a program for awarding grants to rodeo organizations based in communities with a population of 12,000 or less to fund certain capital projects on existing rodeo property.
Establishes the Indian Health Scholarship Program to provide free tuition and fees for qualifying Indian health profession students in exchange for the student's commitment to work at a tribal service site after graduation.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to support the operation of the AgriStress Helpline in Oregon.
Removes the annual limit of $1.53 million, adjusted for inflation, on allocations from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to the County Fair Account.
Establishes the Agriculture Education Scholarship Program to provide grants to qualified students for the equivalent of the cost of one full-time academic year in a qualified agriculture program that will prepare the student to be an agriculture teacher in a high school in this state.
Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which is sited certain nonfarm dwellings.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture for deposit in the Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Removes provisions that allow the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that an energy facility is in compliance with statewide planning goals even when the council determines that the facility does not comply with applicable substantive criteria from the affected local government's land use plan and regulations that the facility must be evaluated against if the council determines that the facility otherwise complies with applicable statewide planning goals.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to procure and maintain vehicles for purposes related to fuel and personnel needs at certain airports.
Requires the State Department of Energy tostudy developing certain renewable energy projects in this state.
In committee22
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.
Allows an exclusion from a taxable estate for the value of the interest in a family-owned business.
Allows a person taking certain nuisance game mammals to offer the meat to a charitable organization, retain the meat or make any disposition authorized by rule.
Imposes a cap on the percentage increase that the minimum wage rate may be adjusted for inflation.
Directs each school district board to adopt a prevention curriculum that addresses child sex trafficking.
Provides that a county is exempt from the applicability of a statute banning the use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars if voters approve a county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to the people by the governing body of the county.
Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of 48 months' imprisonment for assault committed by a correctional facility inmate against a corrections officer.
Authorizes a law enforcement agency to release a booking photo upon the second or subsequent arrest of the person depicted in the photo within a 12-month period, or when the person depicted in the photo is a missing person.
Requires that ground water data generated or used for specified purposes by the Department of Environmental Quality, State Department of Agriculture, Water Resources Commission or Water Resources Department be peer reviewed.
Instructs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify certain areas as wildlife management units or herd ranges and undertake predator control in the wildlife management units or herd ranges until certain criteria are met.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to provide reimbursement for air ambulance services provided to medical assistance recipients at rates in accordance with the national Ambulance Inflation Factor.
Provides that if a credit union acquires assets of a banking institution, receipts from the business portfolio acquired from the bank remain subject to the corporate excise tax and corporate activity tax.
Increases the minimum amount of grant funds that a county may receive to fund a behavioral health deflection program.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study the possibility of the state funding the salaries of deputy district attorneys.
Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution.
Prohibits physicians from performing irreversible gender reassignment surgery on a minor.
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture out of the General Fund for purposes related to the brand inspection program.
Prohibits the provision of abortion services to a nonresident, unmarried person under 18 years of age without parental consent.
Establishes the Family Home Health Aide Program in the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of certifying family caregivers as family home health aides to provide qualified home health services to eligible relatives in the state medical assistance program.
Allows counties with a population density of less than 10 people per square mile to rezone up to 50 acres to be divided and developed for residential dwellings of at least five units per acre.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Designates February of each year as Oregon Truffle Month.
Authorizes local governments to enter into agreements governing local improvements proposed for unincorporated areas within an urban growth boundary.
Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allowed to swipe a driver license or identification card to verify a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks.
Allows a federally recognized Indian tribe located in this state to submit a request to the Governor for retrocession of Public Law 280 jurisdiction.
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.
Out of committee · 4
Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and accessing benefits and services.
Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs.
Modifies provisions relating to petitions for compensation for wrongful conviction.
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 · 11
Creates an Oregon tax subtraction for interest received by financial institutions from loans made for the purchase or improvement of agricultural real estate, rural residences and coastal fishing boats.
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.
Expands the exemption for receipts from the sale of prescription drugs from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax to include critical access pharmacies.
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.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the supply of land to build homes and grow businesses and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employment without losing temporary total disability benefits to increase possible modified employment placements.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Legislative Assembly to support a year-round legislative assistant position for each member of the Legislative Assembly.
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.
Designates March of each year as Plastics Appreciation Month.