Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 17)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3247

Introduced
1/21/25  
Makes a power company have a new power source that meets certain standards before the company can close a power plant. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable electricity prior to retiring an electric power generating facility that provides reliable or dispatchable electricity. Requires the Public Utility Commission to seek a waiver to, or if unable to obtain a waiver, seek an injunction against, any federal regulations or requirements that impose increasing costs to the maintenance or operation of an electric power generating facility such that an electric company seeks to retire the electric power generating facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3322

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act lets a minor who is at least 14 years old ask the court to change the parenting time of a parent who has abused the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.6). Creates a procedure for a minor who is at least 14 years old to intervene and move the court to suspend or terminate the parenting time of parent against whom the Department of Human Services has substantiated an allegation of abuse.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB922

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours after the credit card transaction is processed.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3332

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act changes the uses of certain moneys that the ORC receives from racing hubs. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Modifies the uses for certain moneys received by the Oregon Racing Commission from Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs. Requires entities that receive distributions of such moneys to expend the moneys and report on the expenditures within a certain time period. Provides for clawback if a recipient fails to expend the moneys or report on expenditures. Provides that moneys that are clawed back be deposited in a fund for horse and jockey safety. Provides that certain moneys that the commission does not expend within a fiscal biennium are deposited in the fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB898

Introduced
1/21/25  
This Act creates processes by which cities can amend their UGBs or urban reserves. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Authorizes certain cities with a demonstrated need for housing to add a project area to their urban growth boundary upon certain conditions. Sunsets the authorization January 2, 2035. Amends principles that the Land Conservation and Development Commission must consider in adopting rules regulating urban reserves. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HR1

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Honors Louis Southworth for his grit and resolve and for all he did for the State of Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Recognizes and honors Louis Southworth (1830-1917) for his industriousness, perseverance in the face of adversity and remarkable contributions to the State of Oregon.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJM9

Introduced
1/21/25  
Asks the U.S. President and the heads of two federal agencies to do all that they can to help prevent, mitigate and suppress wildfires in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Urges the President, the United States Secretary of the Interior and the United States Secretary of Agriculture to direct federal agencies to be as aggressive as possible in preventing, mitigating and suppressing wildfires on federal lands.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3303

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act would require a study of how the state can help lower infrastructure and housing costs. The Act would require the agency doing the study to submit a report to the legislature by mid-September. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon. Requires the department to submit a report of the findings of the study to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3249

Introduced
1/21/25  
The Act would grant a partial tax exemption for the home of a senior or the senior's surviving spouse. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Allows a partial exemption of ad valorem property taxes due on the owner-occupied principal dwelling of an individual who is at least 65 years of age and the individual's surviving spouse regardless of age. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB881

The Act transfers duties from the OAC to the CJC. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services. Transfers the duties of the Oversight and Accountability Council to the commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB884

The Act directs the OHA to study ways to increase some people's access to mental health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs. Requires the authority to report findings of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health. Requires the authority to administer a pilot program to provide grants to hospitals and their community partners to form regional partnerships to increase capacity to provide care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs. Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2027

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental 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 Senate Bill SB787

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells school districts to designate sports by gender. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires school districts to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex. Prohibits biological males from participating in athletic competitions or extracurricular sports designated for biological females. Provides causes of action for students and school districts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB348

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells an agency to set fees for multiyear hunting licenses. The Act sets agent fees for issuing the licenses. The provisions go into effect later. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9). Requires the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish and prescribe fees for multiyear resident and nonresident hunting licenses. Sets the amount of the agent fee for issuance of each multiyear license. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2265

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.