Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, in the Senate and then the House.
Courtney Neron Misslin
Senate
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
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.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
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.
Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation.
Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
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.
Passed the Senate · 1
Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems.
Out of committee · 3
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.
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.
Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
House
Sponsored
Became law9
Removes the requirement that an educational equity advisory committee must advise a school district board.
Modifies school bus stop arm camera law.
Removes references to the National CASA Association.
Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations to modernize the adequate service levels for early intervention and early childhood special education in this state.
Directs the Public Employees Retirement System to include information about the use of overtime hours in calculating the final average salary of a member of the system who is retiring.
Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service and the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State University to study the distribution and occurrence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in biosolids applied to agricultural fields that do not produce crops intended for human consumption.
Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Provides that a student who is in a hospital educational program shall continue to remain enrolled in the school district in which the student had been a resident prior to being in the hospital educational program only for the purpose of maintaining access to classroom curricula and associated technology.
Vetoed1
Enacts the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact.
Out of committee14
Increases the amount of money transferred each fiscal year by the Department of Education from the State School Fund to the High Cost Disabilities Account.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Educationfor a statewide education program for school business professionals.
Requires the Department of Education to provide technical assistance to school districts to plan and develop certain projects eligible for federal tax credits.
Removes the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability.
Appropriates moneys to fund child care workforce investments.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to develop a program for Spanish language pesticide education.
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to community colleges and public universities in this state that offer on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related degree or certificate programs.
Establishes the School District Facility Equity Fund.
Requires entities that cook, assemble, process, serve or sell food to recover and dispose of food waste as specified in the Act.
Provides moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be distributed to the University of Oregon for purposes of a pilot program training graduate-level students who are learning to become speech-language pathologists to use a family-centered approach when serving children with augmentative and alternative communication needs in a traditional overnight summer camp setting.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for purpose of funding the advanced esthetics program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Modifies how the overtime cap is calculated for use in calculating the final average salary of members of the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Appropriates moneys to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to fund nine additional full-time staff positions to support student safety and adult accountability in the education system.
In committee25
Increases the amount of money transferred each fiscal year by the Department of Education from the State School Fund to the High Cost Disabilities Account.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program to provide telehealth services to students in schools and determine the extent to which the pilot program increases student access to health care services.
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.
Modifies the definition of "qualified entity" for purposes of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund distributions for public transit.
Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Expands the definition of "local correctional facility" under the Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Grant Program to allow people at other types of county facilities to receive opioid use disorder treatment and transition planning services.
Permits an individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections.
Details the process by which a permit or zone change that is based on provisions of a comprehensive plan or land use regulation that fail to gain acknowledgment is voided and any resulting improvements or uses are removed or revoked.
Prohibits certain food and beverage items sold to students in public schools from including Red Number 3, potassium bromate or propylparaben.
Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a program to provide rebate vouchers for the replacement of combustion lawn and garden equipment with zero-emission lawn and garden equipment.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the risks to human health of chemicals in menstrual, intimate care and incontinence products.
Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for teachers.
Creates an income tax credit for the unreimbursed expenses of certain public school teachers and adjunct instructors.
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
Prohibits landlords from banning political canvassing or solitication in manufactured dwelling parks and marinas.
Prohibits the distribution or sale of certain covered products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Modifies laws related to towing.
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt rules related to the certification of deafblind interveners.
Requires school districts to develop, implement and annually update a health services plan for the students of the school district.
Authorizes the Department of Education to award grants to school districts and education service districts for the purpose of developing, implementing and annually updating a health services plan.
Prescribes requirements related to contracts entered into between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks and instructional materials.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to post information about publicly supported housing on the department's webpage.
Prohibits restaurants and retailers from providing single-use checkout bags to consumers.
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.
Allows the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters to establish by rule criteria for the issuance of a supervisory sign language interpreter license.
Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.
Passed the Senate1
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to conform the state building code to accessibility requirements under the Fair Housing Act and to certain American National Standards Institute standards for housing accessibility.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Requires certain health insurers to credit any amount an enrollee pays directly to a provider toward out-of-pocket costs and deductibles in certain circumstances.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Requires that a school integrated pest management plan be reviewed at least once every five years.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot screening program and implement additional programs related to newborn bloodspot screening.
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.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing.
Provides that a pleading, an admission or a finding that criminal conduct constitutes a crime involving domestic violence is not an element of the crime for merger purposes.
Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Makes permanent the plan of assistance for low-income customers for telecommunication services.
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.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to consider the cumulative economic impact of an electric or natural gas company's proposed residential rate or schedule of rates.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Expands requirements for the passenger rail plan.
Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.
Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that any revisions to the academic content standards for certain core subjects include standards that address the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to those causes and effects.
Allows moneys available for a pilot program to provide support to foster child students to be used in other schools of the grantee's school district.
Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a statewide shelter program through which regional coordinators are selected to administer funding to shelter providers.
Adds entities in which employees of the entity own at least 50 percent of the ownership interest in the entity directly or through an employee stock ownership plan to the list of sources to which a contracting agency may give preference in procuring goods or services for public contracts.
Allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action against a person who transmits an intimate image to the plaintiff's computer or electronic device in certain circumstances.
Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.
Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters.
Passed the House · 1
Broadens the description of what constitutes a health impairment for determining when a child is considered a child with a disability for purposes of qualifying for special education.
Out of committee · 33
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish a program to award grants to child care resource and referral entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care.
Modifies provisions related to finances, public contracting authority and composition of Willamette Falls Locks Authority.
Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to study the needs of youth who are in a residential training home and who attend a public school in this state.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to fund the management of the Oregon SAE/SANE Certification Commission by the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.
Allocates lottery moneys for distribution to the economic development districts in Oregon to be used to receive federal matching grants awarded by the United States Economic Development Administration.
Requires the Department of Corrections to enter into a contract, or renegotiate an existing contract, with a third party to provide voice communications services at no cost to persons confined at a Department of Corrections institution.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Appropriates moneys to the Judicial Department for the Washington County Courthouse Replacement Planning Project.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Directs the Department of Education to implement policies and procedures that increase access to healthy and culturally relevant food for children in child care.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Requires that moneys from the corporate income and excise tax kicker be used for the funding of school construction and maintenance projects and infrastructure improvements.
Creates the Westside Express Service Authority.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to develop guidance for local governments on siting, and incentivizing the development of, child care facilities on or before December 31, 2026.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.
Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take certain actions related to rocky habitat management.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Expands the goals and purposes of the Prosperity 10,000 Program.
Establishes the Animal Welfare Trust to provide grants to entities that provide veterinary support services related to animals in low-income households or underserved communities.
Extends the temporary Oregon Business Development Department residential infrastructure grant program by two years.
In committee · 25
Modifies the certificate of need process to allow only applicants to challenge proposed decisions of the Oregon Health Authority.
Excludes facilities providing rehabilitation services to individuals with brain injuries or spinal cord injuries from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center.
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.
Establishes the Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Prohibits a person from raising octopus for the purpose of human consumption or participating in the sale or offer for sale of octopus that was raised for human consumption.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to classify certain pesticides containing neonicotinoids as restricted-use.
Requires the Employment Relations Board to establish and maintain a registry system for persons to register as union representatives.
Authorizes the Oregon Public Defense Commission to contract with specified individuals and entities for the provision of public defense services.
Prohibits the use of leaded fuel at race tracks in cities with a population of 500,000 or greater as of January 1, 2026.
Prohibits the establishment or operation of a plastic conversion or depolymerization facility in this state.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the director.
Removes the cap on the amounts distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students who are eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for distribution to schools for the purpose of providing child care before and after school hours.
Requires the passenger rail plan to include strategies for upgrading and improving railroad track, strategies related to infrastructure and boosting capacity and information about federal grants sought and received.
Requires certain policies and certificates of health insurance and medical assistance managed plans to cover biomarker testing with certain rules and requirements.
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.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state.
Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Transfers to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission the responsibility to develop a formula for the distribution of grant funds to counties for deflection programs.
Establishes the Oregon Electric Transmission Authority as an independent public corporation.
Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.
Establishes the E-Oregon Task Force for the purposes of evaluating potential solutions and methods for creating a coordinated electronic portal or portals that create a common pathway for residents of this state to apply for and receive licenses, registrations, certifications, identification cards and other credentials or permits necessary for engaging in business or other common transactions in this state.