Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 167)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB955

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act would grant a specially assessed property tax value for the homes of veterans and their spouses who outlive them. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of veterans and surviving spouses of veterans. Disqualifies the residence for the special assessment on the death of the veteran, remarriage of the surviving spouse or sale of the residence. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3345

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act says that taxis and rideshare vehicles must have plates that have red letters and numbers. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires taxis and rideshare vehicles to have rideshare plates that have cherry red lettering and numbering. Creates the offense of failure to display rideshare plates. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3391

Introduced
1/28/25  
Tells the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. Directs the Secretary of State to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to elections not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3405

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3440

Introduced
1/28/25  
Prohibits a student in third grade from going into the next grade if the student does not meet language arts standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Prohibits a school district from promoting a student in the third grade to the next grade level if the student does not demonstrate grade-level proficiency on a statewide assessment in language arts. Provides exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3380

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
The Act makes a tax credit bigger for some EMS providers and keeps the tax credit in the law until the year 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year. Requires the Office of Rural Health to annually submit to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care and to the Emergency Medical Services Program a report that includes the number of taxpayers eligible for the tax credit. Extends the tax credit sunset to January 1, 2030.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3422

Introduced
1/28/25  
Adds to the standards that must be met for EFSC to take an exception to a planning goal for a proposed energy facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility. Applies to exceptions taken on or after the effective date of this Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3352

Introduced
1/28/25  
This Act tells the DSL to make a pilot program for owners of land to restore salmon habitat. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins. Establishes the Salmon Credit Trust Fund. Directs the Department of State Lands and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to consult with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to develop or identify an existing programmatic general permit to authorize restoration activities under the pilot program. Becomes operative on the date that a programmatic general permit is established. Provides that the Department of State Lands may not approve a salmon credit project on or after January 2 of the sixth year following the establishment of a programmatic general permit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3408

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3368

Introduced
1/28/25  
The Act says that DDAs will be paid by the state salary plan. The Act tells the state to pay a county for the salary of one DDA and half of the salary of other DDAs appointed by the DA. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7). Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan. Provides for the state to reimburse a county for the salary of one deputy district attorney and half of the salary of other deputy district attorneys appointed by the district attorney. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB953

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Creates a task force to establish best practices to help a child with a disability begin public school. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Establishes the Task Force on Transitions into Kindergarten. Directs the task force to make recommendations about best practices for supporting the transition into kindergarten of children with a disability. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3412

Introduced
1/28/25  
This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on the climate. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the climate. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2258

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/19/25  
Refer
6/19/25  
Report Pass
6/20/25  
Enrolled
6/23/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
This Act lets LCDC and DCBS preapprove housing plans. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Authorizes the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules requiring local governments to approve certain land use applications for residential developments using building plans preapproved by the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Requires adoption of initial rules by January 1, 2027. Increases appropriation of planning program moneys for rulemaking. Authorizes the Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop a process to preapprove residential building plans. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2903

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says when the Governor may declare an economic emergency. The Act would allow a state agency to change the employment status of certain jobs to at-will status. The Act would require a review and a report of the changes that were made. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0). Grants the Governor authority to declare an economic emergency. Authorizes state agencies to reclassify management service employees to at-will employment status and to adjust staffing levels of management service employees. Requires a state agency that reclassified management service employees to at-will employment status to review personnel adjustments made during the economic emergency to determine the value of those adjustments and to report findings to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2695

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
5/14/25  
Enrolled
5/20/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act directs the OHSU board to include certain people in the process to hire a president. The Act directs the board to let campus union representatives talk to the board. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors to include specified individuals in the search and hiring committees for a president of the university. Requires the board to allow a representative from campus labor organizations to communicate with the board upon the representative's request.