Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Khanh Pham
Sponsored
Became law3
Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing.
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.
Out of committee1
Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
In committee4
Provides that certain local governments may enact a fuel tax or vehicle registration fee without first submitting the proposed tax or registration fee to the electors.
Creates the Oregon Rail Department.
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.
Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program as an interagency response to the effects of climate change.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Disqualifies land from farm use special assessments upon a final civil penalty or judgment of conviction for the illegal growing of marijuana against the landowner or person in possession and control of the land.
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.
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.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
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.
Prohibits restaurants and retailers from providing single-use checkout bags to consumers.
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.
Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency.
Expands the health insurance coverage of prosthetic and orthotic devices and exempts the Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board from the expansion of covered services unless the boards provide notice to the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Prohibits a management services organization or a shareholder, director, officer or employee of a management services organization from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee of, working as an independent contractor with or otherwise managing, directing the management of or participating in managing a professional medical entity with which the management services organization has a contract for management services.
Authorizes local governments to enter into agreements governing local improvements proposed for unincorporated areas within an urban growth boundary.
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.
Prohibits the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
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.
Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Allows the Department of Transportation to lease or sell surplus real property of the Interstate 5 Rose Quarter Project to Albina Vision Trust, Inc.
Passed the Senate · 1
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.
Out of committee · 6
Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a review of a specific portion of U.S. Highway 30 and present a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2026.
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.
Requires that trains have a minimum of two crew members.
Modifies what entities may receive restorative justice program grants.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a pilot program that allows each natural gas company to develop a utility-scale thermal energy network pilot project to provide heating and cooling services to customers.
Requires transportation network companies to pay minimum compensation rates to drivers.
In committee · 14
Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts.
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
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.
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
Creates the Cascadia High Speed Rail Task Force.
Directs the Department of Transportation to work with the Washington State Department of Transportation and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to develop plans to operate and fund rail transportation.
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.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
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.
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.
Creates the Oregon Rail and Transit Department.