Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Aaron Woods
Sponsored
Became law3
Modifies provisions related to relocating or reconstructing outdoor advertising signs.
Directs the State Chief Information Officer to adopt a policy and procedure for state agencies to follow in requesting funding for information technology budgets and projects.
Defines what a transportation protection agreement for human remains is.
Out of committee1
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish a program to provide grants to nonprofit and community-based organizations that assist businesses owned by minority individuals to become certified by the Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity as minority-owned businesses so that the certified businesses can compete effectively for public contracts.
In committee7
Modifies the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include the disclosure of a computer-generated explicit likeness.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study zero-emission vehicle incentives.
Directs the Department of Transportation to provide optional mobile driver licenses, driver permits and identification cards.
Requires the mass transit district known as TriMet to adopt an ordinance to modify district boundaries to exclude a specified territory.
Requires contracting agencies to purchase common off-the-shelf software or other information technology products or services that do not require customization through an information technology marketplace portal.
Requires contracting agencies to purchase common off-the-shelf software or other information technology products or services that do not require customization through an information technology marketplace portal.
Updates and streamlines the process and procedure for conducting cooperative procurements for public contracts and public improvement contracts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires the Oregon Health Authority or a coordinated care organization to make a determination on a request for prior authorization for medical assistance coverage for the cost to repair complex rehabilitation technology within 72 hours after receiving the request.
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.
Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency.
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 conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.
Allows a federally recognized Indian tribe located in this state to submit a request to the Governor for retrocession of Public Law 280 jurisdiction.
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
Modifies terminology by changing statutory references to "militia" to "National Guard."
Authorizes a city within Marion County to control or direct the disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste generated within the city.
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.
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.
Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom certain stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' compensation claim is compensable as an occupational disease.
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.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Self Enhancement, Inc., to develop affordable housing.
Requires an individual or entity to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority before the individual or entity may establish a new hospice program or expand or relocate a hospice program into a new service area.
In committee · 7
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 a refundable income tax credit for certain child care workers.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
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.
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.