Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 218)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2247

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2286

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OLCC to study cannabis. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study cannabis. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB180

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/14/25  
Engrossed
4/16/25  
Refer
4/18/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Enrolled
5/27/25  
Passed
6/5/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act says that a person making some defamation claims has to prove malice. The Act lets a defendant in some defamation claims bring a special motion to strike. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). [Digest: The Act says that a plaintiff may not sue a person who talks about certain bad behavior for defamation if the person has a reasonable belief that it happened. The Act says that the plaintiff has to pay the person's lawyer fees and sanctions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).] [Provides that a person may not bring an action for defamation against an individual who, without malice, makes a communication regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination if, at the time of making the communication, the individual has a reasonable belief that sexual assault, harassment or discrimination occurred. Allows the prevailing defendant to recover attorney fees and provides for imposition of remedial sanctions against the plaintiff.] Provides that malice is an element of a defamation claim against an individual who makes a communication regarding an incident of sexual assault committed against the individual. Allows a defendant in a defamation action regarding an incident of sexual assault committed against an individual to bring a special motion to strike the defamation claim, under certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2688

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Report Pass
6/23/25  
Engrossed
6/26/25  
Refer
6/26/25  
Report Pass
6/27/25  
Enrolled
6/27/25  
Passed
7/31/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
Makes a certain wage apply to custom work done off-site but for a particular public works project. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works. Specifies examples of such bespoke work. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3136

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Engrossed
4/7/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
6/20/25  
Chaptered
7/7/25  
This Act lets more land professionals serve on planning commissions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city or county planning commission for commissions with more than five members.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2402

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells agencies to look at their rules and simplify them. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2074

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Refer
4/9/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Enrolled
5/21/25  
Passed
5/28/25  
Chaptered
6/11/25  
The Act would extend the partial tax break for vertical housing projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Extends the sunset date for the partial property tax exemption for the property of vertical housing development projects. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2016

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/14/25  
Engrossed
4/21/25  
Refer
4/21/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Enrolled
6/12/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act says the OBLPCT has to get rid of information on its website and other public sources about people who get in trouble with the board three or five years later. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Requires the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to establish a schedule of violations and remove from the board's website and publicly accessible publications, other than from a searchable electronic database designed to enable licensure or registration verification, information related to a licensee's or associate's violations after a specified time.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2750

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes a task force on improving safety in health care settings. Tells the task force to make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.4). Establishes the Task Force on Improving Safety in Health Care Settings and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than December 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB352

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells an agency to create a grant program to eradicate gorse. The Act creates a fund for the grant program. The Act gives money for the grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.7). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a grant program to facilitate the eradication of gorse for wildfire mitigation in southwest Oregon. Establishes the Southwest Oregon Gorse Wildfire Risk Reduction Fund to support the grant program. Appropriates moneys to the department for deposit into the fund. Sunsets the grant program and fund on January 2, 2030. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB317

Introduced
1/13/25  
Raises the cap on the amount of state moneys that a school district may receive for a student who is a child with a disability. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Increases over time the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability. Directs the State Board of Education to adopt workload standards for personnel providing special education and related services. Allows a school district to be eligible for a higher percentage cap if the school district complies with the standards. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2567

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/7/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/23/25  
Enrolled
4/30/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
Directs the use of best practices to keep personal data under the heat pump program secure and private. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires an eligible entity that receives a grant under the Heat Pump Deployment Program to agree to use best practices to maintain the security and confidentiality of personal information of individuals who apply for or receive financial assistance under the program from the eligible entity. Allows the State Department of Energy to award additional grant moneys to an eligible entity utilizing an existing performance agreement if additional funds become available. Allows the State Department of Energy to provide an additional incentive amount under the rental home heat pump program for contractors who install heat pumps in rural or frontier communities. Extends the sunset of the rental home heat pump program from January 2, 2026, to January 2, 2032. Requires the department to provide a report each even-numbered year to the Legislative Assembly on the grants and rebates under the program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB28

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Tells some health insurers to pay certain primary care providers the same as other primary care providers for the same services. Tells DCBS to make rules and adopt a base payment rate. Exempts health insurance offered by OEBB and PEBB. Declares an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.1). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care. 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.] Requires certain health insurers to reimburse the cost of primary care providers in an independent practice at the same rate as primary care providers within a hospital-based or hospital-affiliated system for the same services. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules and implement a benchmark Primary Care Fairness Rate. Exempts health insurance policies or certificates issued by the Public Employees' Benefit Board or the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2960

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act forbids facilities that change the structure of waste plastic. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Prohibits the establishment or operation of a plastic conversion or depolymerization facility in this state. Prohibits state agencies and local governments from providing incentives to any plastic conversion or depolymerization facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. .
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2468

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act lets the DA charge a fee before providing discovery. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Provides that a district attorney may require the payment of a fee reasonably calculated to reimburse costs before providing discovery to a defendant.