Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Kathleen Taylor
Sponsored
Became law7
Includes school districts among the self-insured employers that may apply for exemption from the rules requiring such employers to demonstrate financial viability and provide security to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Eliminates reporting redundancies required under a Healthy and Safe Schools Plan.
Requires employers to provide to all employees, at the time of hire, a written explanation of earnings and deductions shown on itemized statements.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Prescribes requirements for the identification of talented and gifted children.
Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
Prohibits disability income insurers from requiring a person to use or apply for other available benefits for which the person is eligible prior to being eligible for disability benefits offered by the insurer.
Out of committee2
Requires school districts to submit specified information to the Department of Education related to talented and gifted children.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to submit to the Legislative Assembly, by December 1 of each odd-numbered year, a list of each prospective statewide initiative petition that has been filed for the next general election.
In committee11
Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor and to cooperate in adopting rules to facilitate consistency in the application of the statutory provisions concerning independent contractors and the provisions of the Act.
Provides an alternative weekly minimum amount of workers' compensation benefits for temporary total disability.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study methods for detecting paycheck errors.
Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to laws concerning job-protected leave from work.
Requires the Department of Corrections to study residence requirements for women upon release from a Department of Corrections institution.
Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study age qualifications for retirement.
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues regarding the payment of certain bonuses under the pay equity law.
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to safeguarding protected labor relations activities.
Prohibits employers from engaging in unfair immigration-related practices.
Makes requirements for noncompetition agreements applicable to agreements regarding solicitation of employer's employees or customers.
Prohibits employers from imposing requirements that employees speak only English in the workplace unless the employer can demonstrate that the requirement is justified by business necessity and applicable only in limited circumstances.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Requires a seller in a motor vehicle transaction that involves a retail installment contract or lease agreement to make a good faith effort to sell the retail installment contract or lease agreement to a lender on the exact terms that the seller and buyer negotiated.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to consider the cumulative economic impact of an electric or natural gas company's proposed residential rate or schedule of rates.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Allows the State Board of Massage Therapists to post a placard on the exterior of a massage facility found to have committed specified violations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
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.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
Designates February of each year as Oregon Truffle Month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems.
Out of committee · 6
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.
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.
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.
In committee · 7
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
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.
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.
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.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program as an interagency response to the effects of climate change.