Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Lisa Reynolds
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports.
Establishes a community-based perinatal services access program to increase access to culturally specific and culturally competent community-based services during the perinatal period.
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 the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
Out of committee11
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Early Learning and Care out of the General Fund to expand or sustain Healthy Families Oregon home visiting services.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to distribute moneys to an entity within the Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Establishes the Task Force on the Perinatal Workforce.
Modifies the child tax credit by increasing the maximum amount of the credit and increasing income limits.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to develop and implement a whole-person maternal health model for medical assistance recipients.
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.
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.
Exempts a county or other entity that operates a nurse-family partnership program from paying the nonfederal share of the costs of targeted case management services provided by the program to medical assistance recipients.
Creates the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative in the Oregon Health and Science University.
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.
Requires respite care services to be provided through the state medical assistance program to provide relief to children or youth under the age of 26 who have complex behavioral health needs or an intellectual or developmental disability and to the caregivers of such children or youth.
In committee14
Includes, for purposes of corporate excise tax, a corporation incorporated in the United States or a foreign country in the determination of unitary relationship among corporations.
Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.
Directs the Department of Human Services to implement a pilot stabilization program to reduce disruptions in placement and identify long-term solutions to better serve individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including individuals who experience co-occurring diagnoses.
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.
Prohibits operating a boat carrying a child under 16 years of age unless the child is wearing a properly sized and secured personal flotation device.
Directs the Department of Education to establish a pilot project to provide telehealth services in K-12 schools in the 2025-2026 school year.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study social media.
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the establishment of the Family Preservation Project pilot program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a pilot program to assist pregnant persons and their immediate family members in attaining stable housing.
Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study marijuana.
Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving safety in the public schools of this state.
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Carried from the House
Became law3
Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to develop and implement plans, including a statewide primary prevention strategy, that address the entire youth continuum of care and are designed to prevent the onset of substance use.
Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.
Modifies the list of persons who may receive services and assistance funded by the Emergency Housing Account.
Passed the House1
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Requires the Department of Human Services to seek a waiver of federal requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in order to allow recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance to receive advance installment payments of the tax credit for dependent care expenses.
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.
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.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Designates the month of April of each year as Oregon Native Plant Appreciation Month.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority or a coordinated care organization to make a determination on a request for prior authorization for medical assistance coverage for the cost to repair complex rehabilitation technology within 72 hours after receiving the request.
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.
Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing.
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.
Extends to all public bodies the prohibition against denying mental health services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
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 discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Requires health benefit plans to cover autologous breast reconstruction procedures and related services with specific requirements related to out-of-pocket costs, cost-sharing, utilization review, reimbursement rates and network adequacy.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to issue a license to an organ procurement organization to operate an organ transport vehicle.
Prohibits per-visit compensation for home health care and home hospice care staff.
Vetoed · 1
Creates an exception to abuse of a child in care provisions when the suspected abuse was committed by the parent of the child in care.
Passed the Senate · 3
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.
Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
Authorizes a city within Marion County to control or direct the disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste generated within the city.
Out of committee · 12
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.
Requires certain health insurers to reimburse the cost of primary care providers in an independent practice at the same rate as primary care providers within a hospital-based or hospital-affiliated system for the same services.
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.
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.
Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of cervical cancer screenings and follow-up examinations.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition.
Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
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.
Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition waivers.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a program to issue grants to certain nonprofit organizations for security enhancements.
In committee · 6
Requires the Department of Human Services to study how it delivers services to children and families.
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.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
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 and administer the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and used to pay for certain services provided.
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.