Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 4)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB774

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act adds to the times when law enforcement can release a person's booking photo. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes a law enforcement agency to release a booking photo upon the second or subsequent arrest of the person depicted in the photo within a 12-month period, or when the person depicted in the photo is a missing person.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3127

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
6/26/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act would tell people to report deaths to the state using an electronic system. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires use of the state electronic reporting system to report deaths to the Center for Health Statistics. [Takes effect July 1, 2027.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2539

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells the HECC to create a plan that allows students at community colleges to earn credits from certain training programs. Tells the HECC to give a report on the plan to the legislature. Ends the plan on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency and takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop a plan for enabling community colleges to offer an associate's degree completed in coordination with credits earned in an apprenticeship or training program. Requires the commission to submit a report detailing the plan by September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2715

Introduced
1/13/25  
Allows for all public higher learning schools to offer PhDs that are approved by the HECC. Limits certain public higher learning schools to five PhD programs until 2044. Blocks public money to be used for aid to students at certain higher learning schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Authorizes all public universities in Oregon to offer doctoral degrees, subject to approval by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Limits certain public universities to five doctoral programs until 2044. Prohibits the commission or any other state agency from using public moneys to award scholarships, grants or other types of student financial aid to post-secondary institutions of education that offer coursework primarily online and have been found to have engaged in fraudulent or predatory practices against students or prospective students.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJM1

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Urges Congress to protect rights of armed forces and their families. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Urges Congress to conduct public hearings on anti-military bias and improve enforcement of hate-crime protections for military families.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2851

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes a definition for two crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies the definition of "critical infrastructure" to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism in the first degree and domestic terrorism in the second degree.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2617

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs the DOJ to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the Department of Justice to study possible modifications to post-conviction relief proceeding procedures to increase efficiency, and provide the results of the study to the 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 House Bill HB2584

Introduced
1/13/25  
Stops a franchisor from charging a fee that was not listed in the contract that created the franchise or shown in the disclosure that under federal law a franchisee must see before buying a franchise. Lets a franchisee sue a person for breaking the law. Lets a state agency issue an order to stop the violation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). Prohibits a franchisor from imposing upon or collecting from a franchisee a fee that the franchisor did not disclose in the agreement under which the franchisor and franchisee established the franchise or in the disclosure document a franchisor must provide to the franchisee under federal law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB447

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that a pharmacy has to tell a person who gets a prescription drug that the drug maker might be able to help the person pay for the drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires a pharmacy to notify a person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that the drug manufacturer may offer a patient assistance program. Defines "patient assistance program." Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3106

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
The Act creates the Integrated Water Data Team. The Act says that DOGAMI must lead the team and work with the team on creating a state water data portal. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.4). [Digest: The Act gives money to DEQ to work on the Oregon Water Data Portal project. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).] [Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for the Oregon Water Data Portal project.] Creates the Integrated Water Data Team. Directs the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to be the lead agency to coordinate the Integrated Water Data Team. Directs the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to work with the Integrated Water Data Team to create and maintain a statewide integrated water data portal. [Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.] Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2233

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
The Act would provide money for legal help to adults in custody at one prison in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Directs the commission to grant funds to the Oregon Justice Resource Center for purposes of the program. Directs the commission and center to evaluate the program and report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to corrections no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB465

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Report Pass
4/25/25  
Enrolled
4/29/25  
Passed
5/8/25  
Chaptered
5/14/25  
The Act removes the annual cap on matching funds for IDA holders and creates a cap on total matching funds. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Removes the annual cap on matching funds that an individual development account holder may accrue. Establishes a cap on total matching funds that the account holder may accrue. [Provides for the modification of the cap to account for effects of inflation.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB191

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs the DOJ to study how to update the child support process in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.0). Requires the Department of Justice to study how to modernize the child support process in this state. Directs the department to 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 HB2255

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule. Directs courts to exercise doubt in favor of an interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2476

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
The Act tells the OHA to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to fitness to proceed and to 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.