Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 22)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2890

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act allows the OIC to give grants for economic development in rural areas of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic development in rural areas of this state. Authorizes the council to provide monetary awards to the winners of contests that are designed to attract invention, innovative and entrepreneurial solutions and opportunities in rural areas of this state. Establishes the Oregon Fund for Rural Small Business Development. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the council to implement the grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3002

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes the Task Force on Data Modernization and tells the task force to make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Establishes the Task Force on Data Modernization and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5003

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/9/25  
Refer
6/9/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/16/25  
Passed
6/26/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Commission for the Blind for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the commission. Limits biennial expenditures by the commission from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HJR2

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure would change the rules for when state government must pay for local mandates. Requires voter approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to change the requirements governing when the State of Oregon must appropriate or allocate sufficient moneys to pay for new or newly expanded programs that state laws, rules or orders require local governments to provide. Expands the definition of "local government" to include special districts. Eliminates some exceptions to required state funding, including an exception when the Legislative Assembly enacts the mandate by at least a three-fifths majority vote. Establishes new exceptions for programs and expansions that enhance public meeting or public record transparency or that permit new protections, rights, benefits or programs governing the employment status of local government employees, retirees or local government employee organizations to be adopted without corresponding funding. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5033

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Enrolled
6/12/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act approves agency fees. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Approves certain new or increased fees adopted by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2202

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study certain chapters of statutes. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study redundancies in the provisions of ORS chapters 414 and 430. 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.] Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB468

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes changes to laws regarding noncompetes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Provides that a noncompetition agreement is void and unenforceable if entered into with an employee who is a health professional.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3141

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
4/30/25  
Passed
5/8/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
The Act makes the third Tuesday of March of each year Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). [Digest: The Act makes October 12 of each year Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Designates [October 12] the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3224

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Passed
6/11/25  
Chaptered
6/23/25  
The Act tells DHS to study some aspects of background checks and make reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to study statutes about background checks and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).] Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks[,] under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026. Requires the department to study options for providing that a person does not need to undergo another background check conducted by a state agency for certain purposes if the person has already passed a background check conducted by a state agency in the previous 12 months. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than June 30, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB21

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes a new tax credit for employment of foster children or former foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to a taxpayer that employs a foster child or a former foster child. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB258

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells OPDC to do a study on public defense. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to study best practices to improve the provision of public defense services within this state, and provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB330

Introduced
1/13/25  
Directs the PUC to adopt standards to require that power lines be placed underground. Provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt standards requiring the underground placement of electric power lines. Provides for exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3005

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells DHS when records about reported or founded child abuse may be expunged. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Prescribes when records related to reported or founded child abuse may be expunged. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB408

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would repeal the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB133

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/18/25  
The Act tells DHS to, each year, adjust for inflation payments to certain I/DD service providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study certain services. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).] [Requires the Department of Human Services to study developmental disabilities services. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Requires the Department of Human Services, when the department enters into a contract with a provider agency for the provision of services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities by direct support professionals, to annually adjust the payments made under the contract for inflation.