Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 146)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3229

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
The Act makes changes to the OHP provider enrollment process. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expedite the process for enrolling behavioral health providers in the medical assistance program and study the feasibility of developing and implementing an automated, online tool for behavioral health provider enrollment applications. Requires a coordinated care organization to render a decision on a behavioral health provider's request to contract with the coordinated care organization within 30 days after the coordinated care organization receives a complete application and to reimburse a contracted behavioral health provider retroactively to the date that the provider submitted a complete enrollment application to the authority that resulted in the assignment of a provider identification number. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2740

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells LPRO to conduct a study on education outcomes for students in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2761

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells ODEM to give grants to counties to hire staff to manage disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to provide grants to counties to create and fill county-level disaster mitigation and recovery manager positions. Specifies the duties of a disaster mitigation and recovery manager. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3125

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates a task force related to rangeland wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Establishes the Task Force on Rangeland Wildfire Resilience and Risk Reduction. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3231

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that the passenger rail plan needs to include ways to fix and improve train tracks and other important parts. It also has to help trains carry more passengers. The Department of Transportation must give updates on how the plan is going by December 31 every two years. All reports about passenger trains will be combined into one part of the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the passenger rail plan to include strategies for upgrading and improving railroad track, strategies related to infrastructure and boosting capacity and information about federal grants sought and received. Requires the Department of Transportation to provide status updates on the plan no later than December 31 of each even-numbered year. Consolidates reports on passenger rail into one section of law. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2264

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act requires OHCS to study home ownership. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homeownership and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2823

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells a state agency that it can hire a lawyer to help with getting a patent for any invention someone makes while working or being a student at a public high school. Lets the agency share in or say it will not share in the ownership of the patent. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while employed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state. Permits the department to assume, assign, partake in or disclaim ownership of any patent that results from an invention under the terms of a contract or other agreement into which the department enters with faculty or staff, with students who have legal capacity to enter into contracts or with the legal guardians of students without legal capacity to enter into contracts and in accordance with rules the department adopts and other applicable law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB645

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would repeal the law that set a state standard for city and county laws that govern the use of public property by the homeless. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of violations of such laws. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2848

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells not for profit companies that get public money to obey open meetings and public records laws. Tells the companies that they must post a copy of the budget they expect to adopt on their websites. Tells the companies that they must agree to and cooperate with audits. Says that the company's directors, officers and employees must comply with government ethics standards. Takes effect on passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation's proposed annual budget to the corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit. Subjects members of a corporation's board of directors and officers and employees of a corporation to government ethics standards. Applies the provisions of the Act to corporations over a 15-year period, with required compliance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the corporation that comes from public funds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3003

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Engrossed
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act makes changes to the data that DHS must put in its annual reports about foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Modifies the list of data that the Department of Human Services must include in its annual child welfare report.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2262

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act requires the OHCS to study homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2485

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs the DOJ to study how to update the child support enforcement process in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires the Department of Justice to study how to modernize the child support enforcement process in this state. 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 SB124

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes a new exemption from Oregon estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Provides for an additional exemption from Oregon estate tax. Adjusts the amount of the exemption based on inflation. Applies to the estates of all decedents who die 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 HB3122

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would tell the SPRD to work to enter an agreement with federal partners to create an access fee on a road in eastern Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to exercise good-faith efforts to enter into an agreement with the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management to establish and implement an access fee for use of Owyhee Lake Road. Provides for certain minimum terms of the agreement.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3035

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
This Act grows OHCS' program and lending authority. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Expands Housing and Community Services Department authority regarding homeownership housing projects and lending. Allows the department to refinance housing loans.