Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 116)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB251

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells DPSST to study OSP and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study the Oregon State Police. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB223

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
The Act directs the OBDD to make and give plaques to schools. The plaques honor Senator Peter Courtney's support of funding seismic safety for schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). [Digest: The Act directs ODE to design and give plaques to schools that have benefited from Senator Peter Courtney's support of funding seismic safety for schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.1).] Directs the [Department of Education] Oregon Business Development Department to [design] create and distribute memorial plaques to schools in honor of Senator Peter Courtney's contributions in supporting seismic rehabilitation funding. Directs recipients to display plaques [at the front entrance] in a location that is easily visible to visitors to the school. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2133

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act makes a program to assess and track the language development milestones of kids that are deaf or hard of hearing. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a program to assess, monitor and track the language developmental milestones of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Establishes an advisory committee to advise on the creation of the program. Directs the Department of Education to publish an annual report on language and literacy developmental milestones of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB328

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act prohibits animal shelters from killing dogs or cats due to a lack of space. The Act makes an exception for dogs or cats with fatal illnesses or severe injuries. The Act requires certain related reporting. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.9). Prohibits an animal shelter from destroying a dog or cat on the basis of a lack of space for housing the dog or cat. Provides an exception if an animal has a terminal illness or severe injury. Instructs animal shelters to annually report on the destruction of animals. Instructs the State Department of Agriculture to annually report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to animals on the destruction of animals by animal shelters.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB853

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Passed
6/26/25  
Chaptered
7/2/25  
The Act increases the amount that the ORC may charge for licenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Increases the maximum amount of certain license fees charged by the Oregon Racing Commission. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2268

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says that a person that offers or sells a health care cost sharing arrangement to a resident of this state must register with a state agency. Tells the person to submit a report to the agency each year. Tells the person what to say or not say to a resident in making an offer or a sale. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.2). Requires a person that advertises, solicits, markets, sells or offers a health care cost sharing arrangement in this state or enters into a health care cost sharing arrangement with a resident must register with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Specifies the contents required for the application. Requires registrants to file an annual report with the director and specifies the contents of the report. Requires certain disclosures in communications with residents. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful trade practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB378

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would make the SPRC allow senior citizens living in Oregon to use state parks at no cost. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB460

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says that laws that require paying a certain wage rate for workers on public works do not apply to a worker who is not yet a fully skilled worker. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). 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. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB711

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB373

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that DOJ may not bill state agencies for legal work. The Act tells DOJ to pay for legal work out of funds given to DOJ for that purpose. The Act says that DOJ may not enter into a union contract that includes billing for legal work. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.4). Prohibits the Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered. Directs the department to pay for the costs of assistance rendered to officers and agencies of state government out of funds appropriated to the department for that purpose. Becomes operative on July 1, 2027. Provides that the department may not enter into or renew a collective bargaining agreement that permits job classification or evaluation on the basis of hours billed by an attorney. Allows the department to track billable hours only for the purposes of reimbursement.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB318

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that substitute teachers can enroll in a health benefit plan with OEBB. The Act says that the teacher has to pay 10 percent of the premiums. The Act says that the teacher's home district has to administer the plan for the teacher and pay the rest of the premiums, but the district will be paid back by OEBB. The Act says that a district has to keep old health care benefits for teachers who cannot enroll in an OEBB plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.6). Provides that certain substitute teachers are eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires the substitute teacher to pay 10 percent of the premiums for the plan. Requires the substitute teacher's chosen home district to administer the plan for the substitute teacher and pay the remaining premiums, subject to reimbursement by the board. Requires a district to maintain legacy health care benefits for substitute teachers who are not eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB62

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
The Act creates new programs for increasing consumers' voice in the mental health care system. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). 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. Requires coordinated care organizations to contribute $1 per member per month toward the consumer engagement program. Requires the authority to administer a pilot program in eastern Oregon to develop an innovative model for providing residential treatment to young adults experiencing early psychosis in conjunction with a substance use disorder. Sunsets the pilot program on January 2, 2036. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB224

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Enrolled
6/13/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/2/25  
The Act keeps the SOS from posting the address of those persons who are linked to a political committee on the SOS website. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). [Digest: The Act keeps the SOS from posting the address of those persons who are linked to a campaign committee on the secretary's website. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).] Prohibits the Secretary of State from publishing the residence address of certain individuals who are affiliated with a [candidate's principal campaign] political committee on the electronic filing system maintained by the secretary.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB701

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells ODE to set up a pilot project to provide telehealth services to students. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Department of Education to establish a pilot project to provide telehealth services in K-12 schools in the 2025-2026 school year. Directs the department to submit a report with recommendations regarding whether to continue or expand the pilot project to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education and health not later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys for purposes of the pilot project. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2206

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
The Act tells OHA to create a work group related to CCO members who need residential mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene a work group to study adult residential mental health services provided by facilities to medical assistance recipients enrolled in coordinated care organizations and the feasibility of [and develop a plan for] transferring [responsibility] the financial risk and administration of those services from the authority to coordinated care organizations [to administer adult residential mental health service benefits and assume the financial risk of administering those benefits]. Directs, contingent on the results of the study, the work group to develop a plan for such transfers. Specifies the duties and membership of the work group. Requires the authority to report final recommendations of the work group to the Legislative Assembly no later than December 15, 2028. Sunsets January 2, 2029. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.