Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Noah Robinson
Sponsored
In committee4
Directs the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a searchable and publicly accessible database containing a copy of every ballot cast in each election.
Provides that, when an interview is an element of the process of selecting a candidate for a civil service position from an eligibility list, the public employer must interview each veteran applicant who meets the qualifications for the position and shows transferable skills if the duties of the position are performed by only one person within the public employer's organization.
Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from requiring municipally owned treatment works from meeting certain criteria for pollutants and temperature for discharges into surface water.
Designates March of each year as Plastics Appreciation Month.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
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.
Requires cities and counties to allow lands where worship is allowed to be used for preschool.
Out of committee · 1
Expands tuition benefits available to disabled veterans to permit veterans who are Oregon residents and are 80 percent or more disabled, and the spouse and child of disabled veterans, to have tuition waived for enrollment in a vocational program or an associate degree, baccalaureate degree or master's degree program at community colleges, public universities and the Oregon Health and Science University.
In committee · 32
Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion.
Provides that vehicle registration for most vehicles will be ownership registration and owners must pay a one-time fee instead of a biennial fee.
Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of individuals who are at least 65 years of age.
Requires the Secretary of State to study methods for reducing the paperwork filing burden on businesses in this state.
Allows a school district, an education service district or a public charter school to employ a person who is not licensed or registered with the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to teach reading to students.
Establishes the Task Force to Abolish the Department of Education.
Authorizes district school boards to establish a policy to encourage students to develop vocational skills by performing maintenance tasks for school districts.
Creates an income tax credit for energy production in Oregon.
Requires school district boards to ensure that a specified percentage of expenditures of the school district are paid as compensation to teachers of core academic subjects or manual skills.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
Requires each school district, education service district and public charter school to ensure that state moneys received by the district or school are used to educate the student for which the moneys are received.
Repeals the directive to the State Board of Education to review social studies standards.
Increases the maximum allowable amount of political contribution personal income tax credit.
Prohibits state agencies from charging fees.
Provides that mines solely using gravity separation shall be deemed gravity separation mines.
Requires public bodies to transfer moneys deriving from certain fines and civil penalties to the General Fund for general governmental purposes.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Requires a school district that is making reductions in educator staff positions to prioritize seniority when determining which teachers to retain.
Restores, for possession of a controlled substance crimes, the offense level each crime had prior to the enactment of the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)).
Dissolves the Oregon Government Ethics Commission as of July 2, 2027.
Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
Instructs the Water Resources Commission to allow the appropriation of water from the mainstem of the Columbia River for use in eastern Oregon.
Instructs the Water Resources Commission to allow the appropriation of water from the mainstem of the Columbia River at a total rate and duty of two percent of average annual flow.
Lowers the interest rate imposed on unpaid property taxes to one-half of one percent per month.
Limits the interest rate to no more than the prime rate plus one percent for loans advanced under the veterans' home and farm loan program.
Removes the requirement that menstrual products be provided in public charter schools and in bathrooms designated for males.
Undoes wildfire protection provisions adopted in Senate Bill 762 (2021).
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.
Directs all state agencies, statewide elected officials and other entities to seek legislative changes only through legislative measures requested and introduced by members and committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
Requires a physician who prescribes drugs for a chemical abortion to provide certain information to a person to whom such drugs are prescribed.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study means for raising dedicated revenue to support recreation activities in Oregon.