Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Hoa Nguyen
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Requires the Commission on Indian Services and the Department of Education to study the Tribal Attendance Promising Practices grant program.
Out of committee2
Modifies provisions of a scholarship program for teacher candidates.
Directs the Department of Education to implement policies and procedures that increase access to healthy and culturally relevant food for children in child care.
In committee9
Directs the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee regarding attendance improvement.
Directs the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee regarding attendance improvement.
Requires the quarterly collection and compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.
Authorizes the use of school activity vehicles to transport students from home to school.
Directs the Department of Education to review, make recommendations and develop procedures related to the recording of student absences and how school districts respond to student absences.
Directs the Department of Education to use moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to provide school districts with technology for data analysis systems for the early warning system.
Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving school attendance.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue a grant to Clackamas County for infrastructure improvements in the Sunrise Corridor.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a grant program for community schools.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer.
Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state.
Requires health benefit plans and medical assistance managed plans to provide coverage with no cost-sharing for additional treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and prohibits requiring prior authorization.
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of digitally created, manipulated or altered images.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program.
Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations to modernize the adequate service levels for early intervention and early childhood special education in this state.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse pharmacies and pharmacists in the same manner as other health care providers for certain services related to HIV treatment.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets.
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.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs.
Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan reimbursement of ambulance services.
Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Expands areas where a child care facility may be sited.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action against a person who transmits an intimate image to the plaintiff's computer or electronic device in certain circumstances.
Designates March 21 of each year as Nowruz Day.
Modifies provisions related to the confidentiality and admissibility of communications by certain public safety employees to a peer supporter.
Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters.
Modifies the list of persons who may receive services and assistance funded by the Emergency Housing Account.
Passed the House · 2
Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Prohibits a person that offers or sells consumer goods or services in this state from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the consumer goods or services that does not include all fees and charges that a resident must pay to complete the transaction in the consumer goods or services other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction or reasonable charges actually incurred for shipping the goods or providing the services.
Out of committee · 34
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to establish a program to award grants to child care resource and referral entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care.
Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a voluntary pilot program where participating hospitals may screen an eligible individual for hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis when the eligible individual undergoes a blood test or analysis as part of medical care received within an emergency department.
Removes the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability.
Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit.
Specifies, for newly constructed buildings within a metropolitan jurisdiction, the percentage of electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles or electric vehicle charging stations that must be installed at vehicle parking spaces in the garages or parking areas of commercial buildings, multifamily buildings with 10 or more units and mixed-use buildings consisting of privately owned commercial space and 10 or more residential dwelling units.
Provides funding to the Employment Department for staffing workforce reentry programs for adults in custody.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to a nonprofit group for purposes related to interpretation of indigenous languages.
Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation to low-income individuals.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
Appropriates moneys to fund child care workforce investments.
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to community colleges and public universities in this state that offer on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related degree or certificate programs.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to fund the management of the Oregon SAE/SANE Certification Commission by the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.
Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a pilot program to provide low-barrier emergency housing for houseless or unsafely housed individuals on waiting lists for residential substance use disorder treatment or withdrawal management programs.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to guarantee against losses in mortgage loans that lenders extend to first-time home buyers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to give a grant to an organization to support first-time home buyers that purchase residential property to build equity ownership in the residential property through reduced interest rate loans and accelerated loan terms.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Human Access Project for harmful algal bloom mitigation.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to develop guidance for local governments on siting, and incentivizing the development of, child care facilities on or before December 31, 2026.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Expands the goals and purposes of the Prosperity 10,000 Program.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
In committee · 32
Prohibits the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from collecting a late application fee for the renewal or reinstatement of a substitute teaching license.
Requires school districts and public charter schools to implement a schedule for high schools that does not start regular instructional hours before 8:30 a.
Directs the State Board of Education to adopt a requirement that approved recovery schools provide peer group supports for students of the schools.
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care, upon request of one member of the Legislative Assembly from each major political party, to prepare a child care impact statement for proposed legislation or a state measure.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in the Universal Representation Fund.
Prohibits a person from raising octopus for the purpose of human consumption or participating in the sale or offer for sale of octopus that was raised for human consumption.
Establishes an income tax credit for substitute teacher licensing fees.
Permits the testing of highly automated vehicles on highways of this state under certain circumstances.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Requires the Department of Transportation to provide a report on the progress of revising the written test for Class C driver licenses.
Establishes the Task Force on Data Modernization and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for various purposes related to increasing the representation of marginalized populations in the education workforce in this state.
Permits an individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for teachers.
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
Directs an insurer to consider only specified information in determining rates for a motor vehicle liability insurance policy.
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.
Establishes the State Commission on Public Charter Schools.
Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions on the basis of minor status.
Directs the Executive Officer of the Commission on Indian Services to provide training on tribes and tribal relations at least once per calendar quarter.
Directs public bodies to change the name of highways that use the term "squaw" in the name.
Directs the Commission on Indian Services to employ a natural resources management tribal liaison officer to facilitate opportunities for integrated natural resources management between Indian tribes and state agencies with natural resources management duties.
Transfers to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission the responsibility to develop a formula for the distribution of grant funds to counties for deflection programs.
Establishes the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday in this state.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Clackamas County Children's Commission for a Head Start facility.
Prescribes requirements that an organization that administers interscholastic activities, or that facilitates the scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities, must implement to address discriminatory harassment or bullying behavior.
Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.
Prohibits residential landlords from considering the credit score of an applicant who demonstrates eligibility for medical assistance under the Oregon Health Plan.