Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Suzanne Weber
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires the Department of the State Fire Marshal to establish an advisory committee to advise the department on funding for rural fire protection districts.
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.
Removes the annual cap on matching funds that an individual development account holder may accrue.
Out of committee5
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Salvage Chief (LSM380) Foundation for the purpose of repairing and upgrading a salvage vessel.
Removes the sunset on the exemption for receipts from the sale of prescription drugs by certain pharmacies.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution as grants to address the causes of chronic absenteeism.
Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a review of a specific portion of U.S. Highway 30 and present a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2026.
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.
In committee16
Defines "rural" for purposes of the rural health care provider incentive program.
Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Commission to adopt rules authorizing persons 65 years or older who reside in Oregon to use any state park, individual campsite or day use fee area without charge.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
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 the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the 70 percent-30 percent division between the permissible uses of new and increased local transient lodging tax revenues.
Directs the State Forestry Department to study the economic effects of a certain habitat conservation plan.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures.
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.
Directs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to require license agents to issue paper copies of licenses, tags and permits under the wildlife laws upon request.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to establish an education course for land use planners for local governments, special districts and state agencies.
Requires local governments to approve alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings under an alternative process that is not a land use decision.
Creates a refundable income tax credit for certain child care workers.
Requires a physician who prescribes drugs for a chemical abortion to provide certain information to a person to whom such drugs are prescribed.
Specifies that a public servant's failure to make a mandatory report of suspected child abuse constitutes a crime of official misconduct in the second degree.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Exempts, until January 2, 2030, lamps purchased by a school district from the prohibition on the sale of certain fluorescent lamps.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Passed the House1
Allows city and county services for which net local transient lodging tax revenue may be used to be provided either directly by the city or county or indirectly by a special district.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Establishes the right of a resident of a residential care facility to organize and participate in resident groups, including an independent family council.
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.
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 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 Department of Human Services to report each even-numbered year to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means about compensation to individuals who maintain a foster home or to child caring agencies that authorize proctor foster homes.
Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
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.
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.
Prohibits the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
Requires cities and counties to allow lands where worship is allowed to be used for preschool.
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 · 2
Modifies the offense of making a false report of child abuse.
Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of menacing a public official.
Out of committee · 10
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.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to specified ports to carry out dredging projects.
Grants higher property tax exemptions for the property of veterans with disabilities.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Marion-Polk Food Share, Inc., for a capital expansion project.
Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs.
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.
Requires that trains have a minimum of two crew members.
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.
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.
In committee · 33
Allows for the provision of epinephrine in schools by methods other than injections.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to decrease either the weight-mile tax or vehicle fuel taxes if the highway cost allocation study indicates that a vehicle class is paying more than its fair share for the use of the highways in the state and the Legislative Assembly does not enact a measure within 120 days of the Joint Committee on Transportation receiving a report on the study to correct the imbalance.
Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm.
Requires a professional licensing board to consider experience in lieu of a high school diploma or an equivalent for licensure, certification or other authorization to provide certain occupational or professional services.
Creates the crime of indecent exposure.
Requires, if an executive department agency testifies in support of or opposition to a proposed measure or amendment to the measure, the agency to disclose all public records in the agency's custody that relate to the agency's decision to support or oppose the measure or amendment, notwithstanding any other law providing an exemption from the required disclosure.
Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipal solid waste and became operational before January 1, 1995, if such facilities register with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System at any time, and for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated, per calendar year, from the combustion of biogenic material.
Modifies vehicle emissions testing exemptions to include motor vehicles and engines with model years that predate the current year by less than six years.
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.
Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish a division for the purpose of identifying and implementing ways to better serve and protect drug endangered children.
Prohibits public bodies and private entities from requiring a person to receive an experimental medical intervention or vaccination or to possess an immunity passport, immunity pass or other evidence certifying a vaccination or immunity status.
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.
Creates the crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Allows a lender that, in a reverse mortgage, provides a lump sum in exchange for a claim upon the equity of a property to claim as the lender's equity, and receive as proceeds in a sale of the property, not more than the percentage of the total equity in the property to which the lump sum is equivalent on the date the lender provides the lump sum.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Modifies the definition of "vulnerable person" for purposes of civil action for abuse of a vulnerable person to include individuals under 18 years of age.
Directs the Governor to appoint a new head of certain agencies within three months after the Senate fails to confirm the reappointment of the head of the agency.
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.
Directs the Department of Justice to report annually to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means and the committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary on the use of outside counsel to defend state agencies in lawsuits.
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 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.
Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to students of this state.
Prescribes information related to courses of study offered by a school district that a district school board must ensure is provided on the school district's website.
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.
Allows a court to enter a supplemental eviction judgment within 180 days of an eviction judgment against a tenant who reenters the property, subject to the tenant's right to request a hearing.
Allows a public education provider to identify which locations to make tampons and sanitary pads available to students.
Transfers the office of Children's Advocate from the Department of Human Services to the office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman.
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study means for raising dedicated revenue to support recreation activities in Oregon.
Requires the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility and utility of constructing bridges across the Columbia River west of the Interstate 5 bridges.
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.
Designates March of each year as Plastics Appreciation Month.