Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 49)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB940

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
This Act expands the meaning of "area zoned for rural residential use" for land use planning. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which is sited certain nonfarm dwellings. Subjects such lands to other land use planning requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3791

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells OED to do a study on the maritime workforce. The Act tells OED to turn in a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.2). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the maritime workforce in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1146

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells an agency to study rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0). Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1113

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes changes to laws involving the welfare of young people. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraints and involuntary seclusion on certain young people. Modifies provisions regarding investigations of abuse of certain young people. Modifies provisions regarding licensing of child-caring agencies. Modifies provisions regarding out-of-state placements of children in care.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3810

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes a new tax credit for farmers who employ farmworkers. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for a taxpayer that employs agricultural workers. 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 House Bill HB3765

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells the State Treasurer and OIC to take steps to use ESG factors in investment decisions. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Requires the State Treasurer and Oregon Investment Council to implement a system to perform ESG analyses of current and proposed investments, assign personnel to oversee the system and issue an annual report on actions taken pursuant to the system. Prohibits investments in entities that are determined by an international body to have violated international law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HJM14

Introduced
2/27/25  
Asks BLM and the U.S. Forest Service to give back control of as much land in this state as possible to the State of Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requests the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service to relinquish control of as much land in this state as possible to the State of Oregon.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3801

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes changes to the law that allows agreements among persons that use ground water. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Makes certain changes related to voluntary agreements among ground water users.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1105

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act tells the DOJ to adopt by rule a process for requiring the use of a monitored debit card for spending child support payments. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored by the obligor and obligee for compliance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3841

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act says that Cherriots and others should work together to assess if it is possible to have a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Cherriots must give a report about what the group finds out. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Directs Cherriots to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation not later than January 1, 2027. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Cherriots for the study. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3854

Introduced
2/27/25  
Bans the recoupment of certain costs if the costs are from the fault of a utility. Makes an electric company make a report on any fire event that is caused by a power line. Allows the report to be used as evidence. Specifies the economic damages allowed for property damage caused by a wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that a public utility incurs as a result of negligence or a higher degree of fault on the part of the public utility. Requires an investor-owned electric utility to provide an incident report to the Department of the State Fire Marshal and the State Forestry Department whenever a fire-related incident occurs that is caused by the utility's electric power line and to provide a copy of the incident report to the Public Utility Commission. Provides that the incident report may be used as evidence. Specifies the recoverable economic damages allowed for damage or injury to property caused by a wildfire. Allows the use of other objectively verifiable information to determine fair market value.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1103

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act makes Business Oregon lend money to build water or sewer lines or roads for homes in certain areas. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to establish a program to provide loans to cities and tribes to develop infrastructure to support housing in climate-friendly areas. Requires rulemaking for the program no later than July 1, 2026. Establishes the Climate-Friendly Housing Infrastructure Revolving Fund. Continously appropriates moneys to the department to implement the program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1115

Introduced
2/27/25  
Makes DAS do a study on social media and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study social media. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to information management not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3836

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act says that the Department of State Police no longer does NICS checks for gun dealer firearm transfers. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Removes the Department of State Police as the designated state point of contact for purposes of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Directs gun dealers to obtain authorization to transfer firearms directly from the system. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3906

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act allows a condemner to apply for land use approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows a condemner to apply for a land use approval for lands subject to its power of condemnation.