Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 161)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3978

Introduced
5/27/25  
The Act concerns lab research on dogs, cats and primates that are not human. The Act creates a task force to stop research on primates that are not human. The Act takes effect when it is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 91.4). Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories. Prohibits a person from conducting research or testing on nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Establishes the Task Force on Planning the Elimination of Research on Nonhuman Primates. Directs the task force to draft a plan for eliminating the breeding of, and research on, nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Exempts the task force from public meetings law requirements. Sunsets the task force in 2041.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1211

Introduced
5/28/25  
The Act directs the court to enter an order prohibiting gun possession by a person charged with some drug possession crimes. The Act also requires that deflection programs restrict the possession of guns by people in the program. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.9). Directs the court to enter an order, at the first appearance on a charge of misdemeanor unlawful possession of a controlled substance, prohibiting the charged person from possessing a firearm. Specifies a process for surrendering firearms and the return of firearms. Specifies the circumstances when the court must terminate the order. Provides that possession of a firearm by the prohibited person is punishable by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Requires that deflection programs, including those receiving grant funding, require participants to transfer all firearms to a law enforcement agency, a gun dealer or a third party until the program is completed. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3979

Introduced
5/29/25  
The Act would make changes to PECBA. The Act would prohibit public employees from engaging in strikes to resolve labor disputes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Prohibits strikes by public employees. Requires that labor issues in dispute be submitted to final and binding arbitration.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3980

Introduced
6/2/25  
The Act would make it so that municipalities are able to get loans and grants for levee projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1212

Introduced
5/29/25  
Requires school districts to have a policy that does not allow students to use cell phones and similar devices. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SCR33

Introduced
6/2/25  
Refer
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Honors Susan Roberts for her service to this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Recognizes and honors former Wallowa County Commissioner Susan Roberts for her service to this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3944

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
The Act repeals laws related to the building code, laws making areas less at risk for wildfire, laws about fire protection for certain lands and a map of wildfire hazard. The Act makes changes related to helping with defensible space. The Act makes changes related to certain areas near forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map. Makes changes related to defensible space. Makes changes related to the wildland-urban interface. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1190

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act makes new laws with respect to mandatory overtime shifts for some workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Permits employees of residential training homes to refuse to work an additional mandatory overtime shift scheduled by the employer when the employee has already worked a mandatory overtime shift in the same month. Prohibits residential training home employers from requiring an employee to take unpaid leave or use paid time off to make up for refusing to work the additional overtime shift, or from taking any adverse employment action against the employee.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3947

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act changes the kicker estimate to fund help against wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Requires that the difference between the amount actually collected and the amount estimated after the close of the 2023 regular session be used for funding wildfire prevention and response. Provides for the return to taxpayers of surplus revenue over the adjusted estimate amount if the constitutional threshold is exceeded. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3948

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act makes it a worse crime to fly a drone over a correctional facility. The Act says that the court can take away the drone upon conviction. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.7). Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility. Makes the crime punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Provides that, upon conviction, the court shall order that the unmanned aircraft system be forfeited. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1192

Introduced
3/20/25  
The Act concerns making power from water under a water right. The Act provides that a person cannot be banned from using the water right under certain circumstances. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Provides that the Water Resources Director may not forcibly convert a hydroelectric water right whose holder has ceased generating electricity on instruction from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission if certain other criteria are met.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1196

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
The Act tells the LRO to study ways to raise money for recreation activities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study means for raising dedicated revenue to support recreation activities in Oregon. Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue not later than December 1, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1191

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
4/11/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Enrolled
5/20/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act says that some laws making crimes do not apply to the act of telling another person about their rights. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Provides that certain laws establishing crimes do not apply to the act of informing another person of the other person's civil or constitutional rights.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3943

Introduced
3/20/25  
This Act makes agencies report on impacts of current and future rules on home production. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires all state agencies to prepare a report within 60 days on the impacts of the agency's current rules on construction of new housing and the agency's land that may be available for housing production. Requires the agencies to submit the report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026. Expands, to all state agencies, the requirement to complete housing impact statements upon proposing rules. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1198

Introduced
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Report Pass
5/19/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
The Act changes the law for the packaging of vapes to protect the health of minors. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems. .