Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 143)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2242

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment. 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 HB2117

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act brings back a tax credit for research expenditures. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Restores the corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities at an increased maximum amount. Provides for refundability and transferability of the credit. Allows the option for research and development expenditures to be fully deducted in the tax year paid or incurred, rather than treated as capital expenditures and amortized over five years. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2515

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
The Act allows public bodies to agree to create pools of funds or proceeds to invest without help from the State Treasurer and the OIC. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Authorizes public bodies to enter into an intergovernmental agreement to pool bond proceeds or other funds into commonly managed investments without the oversight of the State Treasurer and the Oregon Investment Council.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2018

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act expands Madras' ability to use an OBDD grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Amends the allowable uses of moneys appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to the City of Madras. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB231

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
The Act gives money to HECC to give to a group to improve campus resilience. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the [Oregon Campus Resilience Consortium] University of Oregon's Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments for the purpose of implementing emergency response, continuity and recovery initiatives at post-secondary educational institutions in this state. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2918

Introduced
1/13/25  
Requires a hospital to report on a quarterly basis to the OHA its daily cash on hand. Allows the OHA to impose penalties for failure to comply with the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires a hospital to report on a quarterly basis to the Oregon Health Authority its daily cash on hand. Allows the authority to impose penalties for failure to comply with the law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB605

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/18/25  
Engrossed
4/24/25  
Refer
4/24/25  
Report Pass
5/23/25  
Enrolled
5/29/25  
Passed
6/17/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
Stops people who provide medical services to patients from telling a credit bureau that a patient owes a debt, or the amount of the debt. Allows a person to sue a person who breaks this law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJM6

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure asks Congress to draft and ask states to o.k. a change to the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Urges Congress to propose for state ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution to require the federal government to operate under a balanced budget wherein federal government expenditures do not exceed federal government revenues.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB640

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes when minors are the victims of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Adds a manner of committing unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Provides that sexual abuse in the second degree is a level eight offense on the sentencing guidelines when there is a specified familial relationship between the defendant and the victim. Increases the victim age below which assault and strangulation constitute felony offenses.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR6

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes :bit.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:sit. the official film of Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Designates :bit.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:sit. (1975) as the official film of Oregon.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB849

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
4/22/25  
Enrolled
4/23/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Chaptered
5/14/25  
The Act changes how PERS uses the money in the SDULF. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Changes the application of moneys in the School Districts Unfunded Liability Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2790

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act clarifies that employees can take sick leave for a mental health condition. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Clarifies the meaning of "mental health condition" for purposes of sick leave provisions to include leave taken to restore the employee or the employee's family member to a state of mental well-being. Requires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to develop informational materials and training opportunities on the relationship between mental and physical health and the benefits of mental health leave. Permits the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to enter into contracts with mental health professionals to investigate retaliation complaints involving absences relating to a mental health condition. Requires the commissioner to adopt rules concerning retaliation for absences related to a mental health condition.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB81

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act tells the OCAC to study and make a report on natural climate solutions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Oregon Climate Action Commission to study natural climate solutions. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2145

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Refer
4/25/25  
The Act removes a limit on lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account and adjusts the portion of lottery money going to the account. The Act starts when it is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: The Act removes a limit on lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act tells an agency to create a master plan for building on county fairgrounds. The Act gives money for related services. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0).] Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account. [Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and report a master plan for county fairground capital construction. Specifies content and procedural requirements for the report.] [Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for consultant services related to the report.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2386

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/11/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/24/25  
Enrolled
4/14/25  
Passed
4/23/25  
Chaptered
5/14/25  
Gives ODVA the power to make rules to carry out the laws on unclaimed remains of veterans and family. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Provides the Department of Veterans' Affairs with authority to adopt rules to implement the laws concerning the unclaimed remains of veterans, veterans' spouses and dependents and survivors of veterans.