Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 120)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3149

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Allows state moneys to be spent for school districts that were impacted by wildfires for one more school year. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2). [Digest: Allows state moneys to be spent for school districts that were impacted by wildfires for four more school years. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).] Allows for additional distributions of state moneys to wildfire-impacted school districts for an additional [four school years] school year. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB698

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes the public areas where a person with a CHL can possess a gun. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). Authorizes the governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public buildings to adopt a policy, ordinance or regulation limiting the affirmative defense for concealed handgun licensees for the crime of possessing a firearm in a public building. Provides that in a prosecution for possessing a firearm in a building or on grounds subject to such a policy, ordinance or regulation, the concealed handgun licensee affirmative defense is not a complete defense, but results in a Class A misdemeanor conviction punishable by 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2527

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
The Act gives money to DAS to give to the Union County Fair Association for fairground projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Union County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB400

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act exempts removal or fill projects from needing a DSL permit if they get a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Exempts removal-fill projects from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Department of State Lands if the person is required to and does obtain a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2244

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells DCBS to study issues relating to workplace safety. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workplace safety. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2316

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Report Pass
6/25/25  
Engrossed
6/26/25  
Refer
6/26/25  
Report Pass
6/27/25  
Enrolled
6/27/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
This Act allows DAS to designate certain state and local lands within UGBs as home start lands for low cost housing. Home start lands are exempt from certain land use laws and exempt from property taxes for up to five years. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing. Exempts home start lands from local land use laws. Allows the department to transfer state-owned home start lands to a developer exempted from ordinary transfer processes once the lands are subject to an affordable housing covenant. Establishes the Home Start Lands Fund to implement the program and to provide loans and grants to develop affordable housing on home start lands or to provide public services for residents. Allows the department to collaborate with the Housing Accountability and Production Office and requires collaboration with the Department of State Lands to implement the program. Exempts home start lands from property tax assessments for a period of up to five years under certain conditions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJR10

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure proposes a limit on the amount that the state budget can go up. The limit is based on various economic factors. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to limit the increase in state governmental appropriations for general governmental purposes in a biennium to the least of the percentage increase in projected personal income, the percentage increase in projected population growth plus inflation or the percentage increase in projected gross domestic product of Oregon. Transfers any excess revenues to a reserve fund. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2900

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Engrossed
4/16/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
Passed
6/20/25  
Chaptered
7/7/25  
The Act would change the definition of "contract teacher." (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). [Digest: The Act would change some law for probationary teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).] [Clarifies the definitions of "contract teacher" and "probationary teacher." Requires a probationary teacher who has completed a three-year probationary period at one school district to complete a maximum one-year probationary period upon assuming employment with a new school district. Establishes a mandatory 60-day improvement period for those probationary teachers if performance deficiencies arise.] Modifies the definition of "contract teacher" for the purposes of the Accountability for Schools for the 21st Century Law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB523

Introduced
1/13/25  
Allows a student to use certain services when the student is removed from an ASDP. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Allows a student with a disability to use transitional services available to students without disabilities when the student's parent or foster parent revokes consent for, or objects to, the student's placement on an abbreviated school day program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2825

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act updates the laws about how public employers should give priority to veterans when hiring for jobs. If they choose not to hire a veteran, they have to write down their reasons in certain situations. If a veteran or disabled veteran thinks they were treated unfairly, they must first try to solve the problem with BOLI before they can take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position. Requires evidence of eligibility and disability to be provided at the time of application. Sets forth processes for granting one or more preferences. Allows a public employer to exercise discretion not to appoint a qualified veteran or disabled veteran to a civil service position based solely on the veteran's or disabled veteran's merits or qualification in the final stage of the selection process. Requires a public employer to provide written reasons for not appointing a veteran or disabled veteran to a position under certain circumstances. Requires an aggrieved veteran or disabled veteran to exhaust nonjudicial remedies with the Bureau of Labor and Industries before filing a civil action for an unlawful employment practice.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2633

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the CJC to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study issues related to specialty courts, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2849

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells DPSST to look at issues facing law enforcement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies. 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 SB680

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Says that a person may not claim a good effect on the environment from the person or the person's products or services if the claim is not true. Says that a violation is a bad practice under the UTPA and that the person can get sued for $200 for the violation. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). 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. Specifies what constitutes a materially false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent environmental marketing claim or net zero claim or reputational advertising. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful trade practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act and subjects the violator to statutory damages of $200 if a plaintiff can prove exposure to the claim or advertising and that the plaintiff purchased a product or service from the person based on the claim or advertising. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2166

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
The Act tells an agency to assess topics related to farming in Oregon. The Act tells the agency to report on the topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Requires the State Department of Agriculture to submit a report on the economic competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural sector to a committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than December 31, 2026. Sunsets the requirement on January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2600

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Court Administrator to look at evidence and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the State Court Administrator to study evidence and 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.