Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 171)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB888

Introduced
1/21/25  
Bans a local government from banning or limiting in homes the use of natural gas. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting the residential use of natural gas as an energy source. Provides for certain exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB113

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act clarifies the process for CPAs from out of state to become CPAs in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Specifies how a person who holds a certified public accountant license from out of state may obtain a certificate to act as a certified public accountant in Oregon.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2538

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that the OMB has to tell physicians and physician associates to take some classes on lethal means counseling. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3116

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
The Act gives money to WRD to use and distribute for place-based water planning. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Water Resources Department for place-based water planning. Limits expenditures by the department for grants to implement water resources plans. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB199

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Court Administrator to look at courts and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the State Court Administrator to study courts and 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 House Bill HB2712

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Report Pass
6/19/25  
Engrossed
6/23/25  
Refer
6/23/25  
Report Pass
6/24/25  
Enrolled
6/24/25  
Passed
7/31/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act gives judges more pay. The Act says that the Chief Justice can take actions and make rules to promote accountability of judges and make justice services fair and accessible. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Increases the salaries of state court judges. Provides that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has authority to take actions and establish rules that promote judicial accountability and fair and accessible justice services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB473

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/11/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
The Act makes it a crime for a person who has been convicted of menacing a public official to have a gun. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). [Digest: The Act creates a new crime of threatening a public official. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3).] [Creates the crime of threatening a public official. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, for the first offense, and a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for subsequent offenses.] Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of menacing a public official. Punishes the unlawful possession by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Specifies procedures for the court to follow concerning the prohibition and a process for the person to surrender firearms. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB239

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Court Administrator to look at lawsuits and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires the State Court Administrator to study lawsuits and 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 House Bill HB2596

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
Causes this state to join a compact for school psychologists. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Enacts the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact. Prescribes that the purpose of the Compact is to facilitate the interstate practice of school psychology in educational or school settings. Describes the rights and responsibilities under the Compact.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB121

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
The Act extends the sunset for the earned income tax credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Extends the sunset for the earned income tax credit.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3232

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Enrolled
5/21/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act would ease one of the rules for an existing limited equity co-op to be able to claim the low income rental housing tax break. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Removes the eligibility requirement for the low income rental housing property tax exemption that property of a limited equity cooperative be constructed or converted after the local governing body adopts the exemption program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2827

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that the Governor may require persons to make, sell or supply goods if needed for an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Governor, if necessitated by an emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for the manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods. Specifies conditions under which a person may reject such orders. Provides that a person that accepts an order is not liable for contractual damages resulting from an act or omission necessary for compliance with the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3138

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells an agency head to hire an organic policy specialist. The Act describes the tasks of the new specialist. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the director.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2103

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Board of Pharmacy to classify xylazine as a Schedule IV controlled substance. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to classify xylazine as a Schedule IV controlled substance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3313

Introduced
1/21/25  
Makes power made from the direct burning of solid waste eligible for RECs. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipal solid waste and became operational before January 1, 1995, if such facilities register with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System at any time, and for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated, per calendar year, from the combustion of biogenic material.