Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Floyd Prozanski
Sponsored
Became law5
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.
Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.
Allows a marijuana licensee to provide samples of marijuana items to other marijuana licensees at temporary events registered with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.
Designates February of each year as Oregon Truffle Month.
Passed the Senate2
Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of menacing a public official.
Requires at least one of the commissioners of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to hold a marijuana processor, marijuana producer, marijuana retailer or marijuana wholesaler license.
Out of committee6
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for an electronic filing system related to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
Prohibits certain proposed changes related to the appropriation or use of water that will result in the diminishment of streamflow.
Establishes the Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Modifies what entities may receive restorative justice program grants.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a program to issue grants to certain nonprofit organizations for security enhancements.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to impose certain fees for licenses and license renewals for animal rescue entities.
In committee18
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to penalties for violating requirements to accept cash as currency in places of public accommodation.
Prohibits a merchant from charging or collecting a fee for a person's use of a credit card or debit card in payment for goods or services if the merchant does not accept payment for the goods or services in cash.
Exempts seller and nonprofit purchaser of property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling units of land not lawfully established.
Prohibits a gun dealer from transferring a firearm or unfinished frame or receiver until 72 hours have elapsed from the time the gun dealer requested a criminal background check, and the gun dealer has received the background check approval number from the Department of State Police.
Requires the Secretary of State to study state offices and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.
Instructs the forester, or a forest protective association or agency that is under contract or agreement with the State Board of Forestry for the protection of forestland against fire, and whose protection area is or may be affected by a fire on nearby federal lands, to take certain actions to address the fire.
Provides that a noncompetition agreement is void and unenforceable if entered into with an employee who is a health professional.
Requires the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to study parole law in this state.
Prohibits operating a Class 3 electric assisted bicycle on a sidewalk, bicycle lane or bicycle path.
Authorizes an education service district board to determine whether a district school board has violated a requirement regarding actual conflicts of interest.
Allows a marijuana producer, marijuana wholesaler, marijuana processor or marijuana retailer to use a motion detection camera system at a licensed premises.
Requires the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to study changes to procedures for the early medical release of adults in custody.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance for rural electric cooperatives.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study investor-owned utilities.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study energy.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Public Defense Commission to increase the hourly rate for investigators.
Requires the sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence that the defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a contributing factor in the criminal behavior.
Carried from the House
Became law4
Exempts the seller and a nonprofit, public body or tribe that purchases property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling certain units of land not lawfully established.
Modifies the procedure for the expunction of certain juvenile records.
Permits certain exempt ground water users to withdraw up to 3,000 gallons of water per day for watering any lawn or noncommercial or commercial garden that does not exceed one-half acre.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
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.
Changes from $300 to $1,000 the threshold value above which an owner of a self-service storage facility must publish a notice of sale for personal property that is subject to a lien for unpaid rent, labor, materials or other services related to storing the personal property.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
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.
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.
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.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation.
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.
Prohibits per-visit compensation for home health care and home hospice care staff.
Establishes the Task Force on Removing Barriers to Jury Service.
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct an effort to publicize and explain the obligation to accept cash as payment for goods and services to places of public accommodation and residents of this state.
Passed the Senate · 4
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving federal retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who hasattained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year.
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.
Modifies terminology by changing statutory references to "militia" to "National Guard."
Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
Out of committee · 7
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.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified purposes.
Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and accessing benefits and services.
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.
Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the director.
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 · 7
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Creates the crime of unlawful transport, manufacture or transfer of a rapid fire activator.
Prohibits a person under 21 years of age from possessing firearms with specified exceptions.
Authorizes the governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public buildings to adopt a policy, ordinance or regulation limiting the affirmative defense for concealed handgun licensees for the crime of possessing a firearm in a public building.
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.