Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 132)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB34

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/18/25  
The Act makes changes to laws about the persons that own and operate long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0).] Requires the Department of Human Services to study [long term care] the information that a long term care facility must disclose about its owners and operators and the feasibility of implementing an online portal to collect and share information about long term care facilities with the public. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than [September 15, 2026] December 31, 2025. Sunsets the study requirements on January 2, 2027. Requires a long term care facility, before the facility may change its owner or operator, to apply to the department for approval and provide notice to residents. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2520

Introduced
1/13/25  
Allows a taxpayer to claim, for up to three years, a credit against their income tax if the taxpayer employs a qualified veteran. Requires the taxpayer to pay at least the required wage. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.9). Allows a credit against income taxes for up to three years for employment of qualified military veterans if the wage requirement is met. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2033. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB800

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act requires people who seek licenses to show tax compliance. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Expands provisions requiring tax compliance as a condition of receiving a license to conduct a business, trade or profession or of entering into a contract with a state agency or political subdivision. Requires licensees and contractors to provide a tax compliance certificate from the Department of Revenue, unless a certain compliance rate is demonstrated by holders of the type of license. Applies to licenses issued, reissued, reinstated or renewed and contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2657

Introduced
1/13/25  
Lets a state board set licensing standards for doing masonry work in essential buildings. Lets another board set standards for putting in fire proofing materials in essential buildings. Tells a state agency to adopt rules that say that there must be good fire proof materials in essential buildings. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8) Permits the Building Codes Structures Board to adopt licensing standards for performing structural masonry in essential facilities. Permits the Construction Contractors Board to adopt licensing standards for applying or installing fireproofing materials in essential facilities. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules for adequate fireproofing in all newly constructed essential facilities. Specifies minimum provisions required in the department's rules. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB488

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act repeals laws requiring overtime pay for farm workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions requiring employers to pay overtime to agricultural workers who work in excess of the maximum allowable hours. Repeals provisions related to the refundable income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to employers for the excess amount of wages paid as overtime pay for agricultural workers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB257

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the PSRB to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Directs the Psychiatric Security Review Board to study progress in developing a restorative justice program, 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 Senate Bill SB770

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would repeal the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB708

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs the CJC to study rates of crime recidivism. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect of different types of sentences on rates of recidivism. Directs the commission 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 House Bill HB2058

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would set a static, permanent match for the estate tax exemption, tied to the federal exempt amount for 2025 deaths. The Act would become law on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable estate exceeds $13.99 million. Raises the threshold for the filing of an estate tax return to a gross estate valued at more than $13.99 million. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB12

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act does not allow the SOS to mark certain judge candidates as incumbent. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Prohibits the designation of incumbent for any candidate for specified judgeships who was appointed and is seeking election in the first election since that appointment.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5024

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Refer
6/16/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Enrolled
6/19/25  
Passed
7/31/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the department for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from specified funds for specified purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from lottery moneys for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds for certain purposes. Authorizes certain nonlimited expenditures. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2762

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says it is an offense to sleep in danger zone near the road. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.4). Creates the offense of sleeping in a highway danger zone. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB826

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Report Pass
6/11/25  
Enrolled
6/16/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/2/25  
The Act puts ODEM in charge of a plan to make sure that public safety systems are compatible with each other. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Transfers duties, functions and powers related to the Oregon Statewide Communication Interoperability Plan from the State Chief Information Officer to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB281

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5025

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Engrossed
6/23/25  
Refer
6/23/25  
Report Pass
6/24/25  
Enrolled
6/24/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Emergency Board for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, tobacco and marijuana tax receipts, beer and wine tax receipts, provider taxes and Medicare receipts, but excluding lottery funds and other federal funds, collected or received by the authority for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by the authority from certain lottery moneys for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by the authority from certain federal funds for certain purposes. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Limits biennial expenditures from the Public Employees' Revolving Fund and Oregon Educators Revolving Fund for benefit plan premiums and self-insurance. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.