Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
David Brock Smith
Sponsored
Became law6
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs, and to report on the programs to the Legislative Assembly.
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.
Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides.
Modifies the exemption from taxable estate for the value of natural resource property as applicable to forestland.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study classification and compensation for forestry and wildland fire positions in state government.
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to provide guidance on nonstructural, nature-based solutions for shoreline stabilization.
Vetoed1
Requires Curry County and the Water Resources Department to expedite review of applications for use on specified lands.
Passed the Senate2
Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances.
Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that an electric company incurs if a court or jury finds that a wildfire resulted from the negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the electric company.
Out of committee15
Directs the State Department of Agriculture, in partnership with Oregon State University, to study the potential for developing commercial seaweed production for certain purposes.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a pilot grant program to manage wildfire risk by promoting the use of air curtains by persons that make biochar.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to specified ports to carry out dredging projects.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program to distribute moneys to certain counties to fund emergency preparedness coordinators.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study the impacts of temperature, predation and rearing practices associated with the Rock Creek Hatchery.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, to provide transportation services to the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center for veterans residing in Coos and Curry Counties.
Authorizes the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority to approve a loan to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay for shipyard repairs.
Appropriates moneys for the purpose of seeding the capital campaign and expanding fundraising efforts for a multiuse recreational facility to serve the greater Roseburg and Douglas County communities.
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for the amount paid by an owner of an eligible generation facility for transmission services.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to and directs allocation of lottery revenues by the State Parks and Recreation Department to continue to develop, maintain or work toward completion of the Oregon Coast Trail.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Coast Community Health Center, or a successor entity, to provide health care services and apprenticeships.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center to expand access to primary, specialty and pharmacy services in and around Bandon, Oregon.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study options for establishing a grant program for victims of child sex abuse.
In committee153
Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for a taxpayer that employs youth through the Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.
Requires the Department of Education to study issues related to wrap-around support services for students.
Establishes a ratings system for library materials available to young individuals based on appropriateness for different age groups.
Repeals the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Requires an electric utility to pay a net metering customer-generator for the excess kilowatt-hours generated during a billing period.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the impacts of waste from solar or wind renewable energy facilities.
Modifies the general powers of the Public Utility Commission by removing the commission's general power to balance the interests of the utility investor and the consumer in establishing fair and reasonable rates.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop a game fish carcass recovery project.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products.
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture, out of the General Fund, for the purpose of developing a grant program to fund the construction of meat rendering plants.
Allows counties to authorize the subdivision of land zoned for exclusive farm use or forest use into parcels no smaller than the average size of the county's lots and parcels of the same type.
Requires the Governor to certify to the United States Secretary of Commerce that the designation of a national marine sanctuary located within the seaward boundary of Oregon is unacceptable unless the Legislative Assembly confirms the designation.
Prohibits an insurer from canceling fire insurance policies, or raising policy premiums by more than three percent, if an insured's property is located within the wildland-urban interface or the insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
Reduces the required size of real property and the percentage of value of the adjusted gross estate necessary for real property to qualify for a natural resource property credit against estate tax, where the real property is forestland or forestland homesites.
Provides that a small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation requirements may harvest the trees.
Directs the State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly regarding efficacy of forest management.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to notify the Attorney General if the air quality index readings for an area of the state reach 250 or higher during seven consecutive days and the cause is believed to be a wildfire originating on lands owned by the United States.
Requires a court to award damages for the cost of replanting to a plaintiff prevailing against the federal government or a contractor in an action for injury to private land arising from a fire originating on federal forestland.
Directs the State Forestry Department to establish by rule a pilot grant program for the purpose of managing wildfire risk by certain methods.
Requires the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish and prescribe fees for multiyear resident and nonresident hunting licenses.
Allows the electors of a county to approve a measure allowing the use of dogs for hunting, pursuing or taking cougars within the county.
Finds that barred owls are known to prey on spotted owls.
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a grant program to facilitate the eradication of gorse for wildfire mitigation in southwest Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture for deposit in the Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to include the relocation of beavers from western Oregon to central and eastern Oregon in a program for voluntarily relocating beavers.
Appropriates moneys to the Invasive Species Council, out of the General Fund, for certain purposes.
Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.
Establishes the Ocean Beach Fund.
Authorizes any person to submit a complaint to the Department of Environmental Quality if the person reasonably believes that a camping site of homeless individuals is causing the discharge of wastes into state waters.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture to fund a grant program related to establishments that process and sell meat products.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data.
Directs the Attorney General to assist a person in recovering damages from the federal government when smoke from a wildfire on federal lands causes damages to the person's wine grape growing.
Authorizes a producer of eggs to sell and deliver the producer's eggs to a restaurant without an egg handler's license.
Prohibits the Governor or a state officer or agency from requiring a lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during a declared state of emergency or a declared state of public health emergency.
Limits a declaration of a state of emergency to 30 days' duration, unless extended by the Legislative Assembly for an additional 30 days.
Prohibits the Governor and specified state agencies from taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon unless authorized by the Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after the effective date of the Act.
Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to distribute to interim committees of Legislative Assembly a summary of administrative rules that have been adopted in the previous two years that are relevant to the subject of the interim committee.
Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands.
Repeals restrictions on brassica production in the Willamette Valley.
Prohibits the Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Establishes certain limitation on projects under the Good Neighbor Authority Agreement.
Establishes certain additional requirements concerning projects under the Good Neighbor Authority Agreement.
Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study methods for legislative oversight of administrative rules.
Increases the limit for the amount of claims that may be filed in small claims court from $10,000 to $20,000.
Repeals the prohibition on the use of public resources to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Repeals the corporate activity tax.
Repeals provisions requiring employers to pay overtime to agricultural workers who work in excess of the maximum allowable hours.
Directs the Legislative Administrator to cause updates to the Oregon Legislative Information System to permit amendments and informational material to be posted and associated online with a legislative measure without regard to whether the measure is scheduled for a hearing.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Directs an arresting officer to notify federal immigration authorities when a person is arrested for delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance.
Establishes a division in the Department of State Police to enforce laws related to illegal marijuana cultivation.
Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.
Exempts residential tenancies within 25 miles of the coastline from maximum limits on rent increases.
Repeals limits on the increases to residential rent that a landlord may charge.
Prohibits a municipality that administers and enforces a building inspection program from adopting construction standards or methods from the Reach Code, or a similar or related code of standards and methods, that exceed or are more stringent than statewide standards and methods that the Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services adopts and administers.
Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for the purpose of serving as an accessory dwelling unit to a home newly constructed on rural residential lands.
Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
Allows a new income or corporate excise tax credit for a portion of the eligible costs of a newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for a price that is affordable to a household with an annual income at or below 120 percent of the area median income.
Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or maintain a business in or within 25 miles of a boundary of local government or special district and appeared before a decision maker in person at a hearing, if available.
Awards attorney fees against an intervenor in any unsuccessful appeal of a quasi-judicial land use decision.
Allows a recreational vehicle used to provide temporary security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
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.
Separates the possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statutes into separate statutes.
Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to information that tracks or reveals the geographic location of an insured during any time in which the insured is occupying or operating a motor vehicle that the motor vehicle liability insurance policy covers.
Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission from adopting motor vehicle emission standards to implement California standards requiring that some or all medium- or heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission vehicles.
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environmental Quality to study the impacts of wildfire on water quality of streams and tributaries.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby to facilitate salmonid habitat restoration projects.
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture for purposes related to a program of state inspection for the processing and sale of meat products from nonamenable species.
Distributes the balance of the proceeds from county sales of real property to the county general fund.
Authorizes a county tax collector to withhold from property tax distributions to taxing districts within the county an amount equal to three percent of the distributions.
Exempts from state income tax for a taxpayer who is a veteran all retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Requires additional cities to develop urban reserves.
Authorizes counties to allow contiguous clustered nonresource dwellings on a clustered development tract in lieu of approval of individual nonresource dwellings on lands zoned for forest or farm use.
Allows a student with a disability to use transitional services available to students without disabilities when the student's parent or foster parent revokes consent for, or objects to, the student's placement on an abbreviated school day program.
Excludes certain students from the requirements of an abbreviated school day program.
Amends expedited land division criteria and processes.
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect of different types of sentences on rates of recidivism.
Authorizes the Employment Department to require drug testing for an initial claim for unemployment benefits if the claimant was fired by the claimant's most recent employer for unlawful drug use or suitable work is available for the claimant only in an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing.
Requires school districts to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
Directs the State Board of Forestry, on behalf of the State of Oregon, to offer to convey certain real property to Coos County under specific terms and conditions.
Adds additional criteria under which Coos County may approve a golf course on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home.
Modifies procedure for rebutting presumption of inability to pay child support when an obligor earns wages from work performed while the obligor is a patient at the state hospital or incarcerated.
Directs the Oregon State Bar to require an attorney to provide at least 120 hours of public defense services in the first three years after the attorney first becomes admitted to the practice of law in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services.
Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Prohibits a state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
Directs the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to establish a division or subsidiary for the purpose of issuing policies of fire insurance and property insurance against the peril of wildfire.
Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting the residential use of natural gas as an energy source.
Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.
Requires public bodies that procure electric vehicles and solar photovoltaic energy systems to receive before entering a contract for the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system a certification from the manufacturer, distributor, vendor or supplier that the production, assembly, transportation or sale of the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system did not use or involve forced labor or oppressive child labor.
Reinstates the tax credit for reforestation.
Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule.
Alters when a person whose driving privileges are revoked may petition to restore their privileges.
Increases the penalties for unlawfully causing fires.
Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of veterans and surviving spouses of veterans.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to Heard Farms to expand wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Allows cities or counties to designate lands outside the urban growth boundary for residential or light commercial use.
Enacts the interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay.
Excludes certain public lands from the provisions of the Oregon Forest Practices Act.
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of certain land, mineral or water interests.
Expands authority of the Department of Transportation to enter into intergovernmental agreements with cities and counties to remove personal property left on property that is owned by the department.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study lodging near waterways and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Directs the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to cause an audit of the Secretary of State Elections Division to be performed to assess the integrity of elections in Oregon.
Requires the State Department of Agriculture to study manure digesters.
Provides that a student enrolled at a career school licensed in this state may receive an Oregon Promise grant.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to provide the Secretary of State with electronic records containing the legal name, age, residence and citizenship information and electronic signature of each person who may qualify as an elector as prescribed by the secretary by rule.
Requires each county clerk to ensure that an equal number of volunteers from each major political party assist with the county clerk's official duties.
Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study the interstate commerce of cannabis.
Allows a community solar project to participate in the community solar program irrespective of the project's nameplate capacity or location within this state.
Directs the Department of State Police to establish a section dedicated to drug enforcement and human trafficking with at least 10 officers.
Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.
Directs the Water Resources Department to consider water basins in which permitted activity will occur when issuing certain permits.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the implementation of incentives to promote hydrogen production.
Directs the Land Conservation and Development Commission to approve amendments to the urban growth boundary submitted by the City of Coos Bay.
Requires a county clerk to verify that a person's political party affiliation is not changed when the person updates that person's address with the Department of Transportation, unless the person has requested the change as provided by law.
Requires that a person on pretrial release for a crime constituting domestic violence wear a location tracking device that provides real-time location alerts to the victim and law enforcement agencies.
Allows a public education provider to identify which locations to make tampons and sanitary pads available to students.
Requires a county clerk to cancel a voter registration in accordance with the requirements of the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Allows counties to approve the alteration, restoration or replacement of certain nonresidential structures on rural residential lands for use as an accessory dwelling unit.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for premiums paid for medical, dental or vision insurance coverage for a child dependent of the taxpayer.
Allows a qualifying county to adopt an ordinance to impose a tax on adult-use and medical marijuana production.
Allows the use of dwellings for vacation occupancy on lands zoned for farm or forest uses.
Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to leave benefits under the family and medical leave insurance program.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy.
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.
Requires 10 percent of the electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins.
Extends the sunset for the personal income tax subtraction for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse certain rural hospitals at rates no less than 150 percent of the rates paid as of the effective date of the Act.
Carried from the House
Became law6
Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances.
Provides the Department of Veterans' Affairs with authority to adopt rules to implement the laws concerning the unclaimed remains of veterans, veterans' spouses and dependents and survivors of veterans.
Modifies the requirements for the Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program.
Makes permanent the plan of assistance for low-income customers for telecommunication services.
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility.
Approves City of Roseburg and Douglas County 2024 ordinances that provided for amendments to the city's urban growth boundary, the city boundaries and the city and county's comprehensive plan and land use regulations.
Passed the House1
Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Directs the field offices of the Department of Transportation located in rural counties to prioritize requests for drive tests when the request is from an applicant who lives in rural Oregon or within 50 miles of the field office.
Modifies calculations of the fair market value of simple estate assets by excluding the values of manufactured homes from the asset limits for personal property and including the values of manufactured homes in the assets limits for real property.
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.
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue qualifying owners veterans' recognition registration plates for use on mopeds and motorcycles.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to require oral health care providers to complete an intake screening with an enrollee of the Veterans Dental Program within 60 days after the enrollee initiates contact with the provider.
Requires that each public member of the Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots be a resident of this state.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by January 31 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legislative Assembly concerning the soundness of the state's Insurance Fund.
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.
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.
Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation.
Authorizes the Water Resources Department to approve applications by certain water districts within the Walla Walla basin to lease existing water rights for temporary conversion to in-stream water rights if certain conditions exist and the department makes certain determinations.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation.
Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon.
Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 120 days of submission.
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.
Allows a federally recognized Indian tribe located in this state to submit a request to the Governor for retrocession of Public Law 280 jurisdiction.
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 Oregon State University Extension Service to establish a lumber grading training pilot program.
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.
Requires cities and counties to allow lands where worship is allowed to be used for preschool.
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.
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 · 2
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.
Maintains current time standards in Oregon unless certain conditions are met.
Out of committee · 23
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code to approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit for middle housing or conventional single-family residential housing in a residential subdivision with more than six lots not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits a complete application.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish and administer a pilot program to award grants to counties.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
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.
Grants higher property tax exemptions for the property of veterans with disabilities.
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Tsuga Community Commission for the Oregon Summer Star program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority toaward grants to local workforce development boards to partner with certain entities toestablish and implement behavioral health education and training programs for high school students.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and implement a child care provider incentive program.
Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire.
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.
Removes the annual limit of $1.53 million, adjusted for inflation, on allocations from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to the County Fair Account.
Establishes the Agriculture Education Scholarship Program to provide grants to qualified students for the equivalent of the cost of one full-time academic year in a qualified agriculture program that will prepare the student to be an agriculture teacher in a high school in this state.
Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the STEM Investment Council, to conduct specified reviews for the purpose of developing and recommending standards by which technology-based competitive student activities may satisfy high school diploma requirements or career and technical education program requirements.
Establishes the After-School Learning and Enrichment Grant Program.
Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which is sited certain nonfarm dwellings.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture for deposit in the Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Modifies the definition of "farmworker camp" so that the relevant statutes apply to farmworker camps specifically in connection with workers who work on a seasonal or temporary basis.
Modifies provisions relating to petitions for compensation for wrongful conviction.
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.
Removes provisions that allow the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that an energy facility is in compliance with statewide planning goals even when the council determines that the facility does not comply with applicable substantive criteria from the affected local government's land use plan and regulations that the facility must be evaluated against if the council determines that the facility otherwise complies with applicable statewide planning goals.
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 the State Department of Energy tostudy developing certain renewable energy projects in this state.
In committee · 42
Allows for the provision of epinephrine in schools by methods other than injections.
Allows a person who has been deprived of rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Oregon Constitution or the laws of this state by a person acting under color of law to bring a civil action for economic and noneconomic damages and for injunctive or other equitable relief.
Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorboats.
Defines "rural" for purposes of the rural health care provider incentive program.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Exempts receipts from the sale of prescription drugs by all licensed retail pharmacies from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax.
Requires public universities to establish a common application for undergraduate admission.
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.
Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax as applicable to homebuilding contracts.
Exempts workers on public works who are participants in a pre-apprenticeship program from the application of laws that determine and require payment of a prevailing rate of wage.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for child care expenses paid by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
Specifies that electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard.
Directs Oregon State University to conduct a feasibility study on nuclear energy generation in this state.
Establishes the Oregon Food Bank Audit Committee as a joint committee of the Legislative Assembly.
Requires the Secretary of State to study methods for reducing the paperwork filing burden on businesses in this state.
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.
Prohibits the Governor from ordering out for service the militia of the state for participation in or support of an armed conflict or the conduct of war unless the United States Congress passes a declaration of war or calls forth the militia of the state to execute the laws of the United States, suppress an insurrection or repel an invasion.
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.
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.
Undoes wildfire protection provisions adopted in Senate Bill 762 (2021).
Expands the exemption for receipts from the sale of prescription drugs from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax to include critical access pharmacies.
Provides that a county is exempt from the applicability of a statute banning the use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars if voters approve a county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to the people by the governing body of the county.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to provide reimbursement for air ambulance services provided to medical assistance recipients at rates in accordance with the national Ambulance Inflation Factor.
Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution.
Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study age qualifications for retirement.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to administer a grant program to award moneys to tenants to update dwellings for use as a family child care home.
Defines "postal indicator" as an official mark stamped on an envelope by the United States Postal Service for purposes of determining the date or time at which a ballot was mailed.
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.
Prohibits a continuing care retirement community from eliminating or reducing a resident's services or programs that were included in the resident's initial residency agreement without the consent of the resident.
Requires a physician who prescribes drugs for a chemical abortion to provide certain information to a person to whom such drugs are prescribed.
Requires each county clerk in this state to provide a live video feed to be made available to the public through the Internet of rooms in which ballots are tallied and official ballot drop sites.
Establishes the Family Home Health Aide Program in the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of certifying family caregivers as family home health aides to provide qualified home health services to eligible relatives in the state medical assistance program.
Requires public elementary school students to be provided with recess time each day.
Provides that gold and silver are legal tender.
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.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study means for raising dedicated revenue to support recreation activities in Oregon.
Allows a person to title and register a Kei truck in Oregon.