Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 54)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1068

Introduced
2/20/25  
The Act tells the parole board to use a sex offender's previous risk level from outside this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to classify a sex offender who has previously been placed into a risk level in another jurisdiction into the corresponding risk level in this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3685

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act would have ballot titles include the effects of proposed local option tax measures. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires ballot title statements to include certain information regarding the effects of proposed local option tax measures.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3670

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act is about diverting bodies of water near high-value farmland. The Act says that a company or state agency that diverts such a body of water has to do a study of impacts. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires a company or state agency that diverts a body of water within 15 miles of high-value farmland to conduct a study to ensure that the diversion will not negatively impact the high-value farmland.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1078

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act says that a public servant commits official misconduct if they fail to report child abuse when they are required to do so. The Act also says that the state has extra time to bring an action against the public servant for the official misconduct. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Specifies that a public servant's failure to make a mandatory report of suspected child abuse constitutes a crime of official misconduct in the second degree. Extends time period for commencing prosecution for official misconduct arising from the defendant's failure to make a mandatory report of suspected child abuse.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3707

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act says that school districts may receive OSCIM grants only if their new buildings meet resiliency standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Provides that new construction in certain school districts must meet specified resiliency standards for the districts to be eligible to receive a matching grant under a certain grant program financed with the proceeds of Article XI-P bonds. Directs the State Resilience Officer to convene an advisory committee to clarify responsibilities related to newly constructed large rooms that serve as emergency shelters.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3695

Introduced
2/25/25  
Tells school districts to adopt a policy to allow students to attend a released time course. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires school districts to excuse a student for a released time course. Prescribes the requirements for released time courses.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3678

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act lets ATVs drive on county roads if county approves. (Flesch Readability Score: 88.9). Expands all-terrain vehicle highway access routes to include county roads. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3709

Introduced
2/25/25  
This Act increases lands that a smaller city can add to its UGB through a temporary exchange program. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Allows a city with a population of 20,000 or fewer to bring exchanged lands into its urban growth boundary, under a temporary program, without regard to the land designation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1085

Introduced
2/25/25  
This Act reduces minimum lot sizes for farm and forest lands. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Quarters the minimum acreage for farm, forest and rangeland lots or parcels. Allows farm, forest or rangeland lots to be created from land without water rights if the land is subdivided to establish at least four dwellings that will share infrastructure and amenities. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3677

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act expands two crimes to include acts committed against public employees. The Act also requires expulsion for certain acts against school employees. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a public employee. Expands the crime of aggravated harassment to include propelling bodily fluids or another dangerous substance at a public employee. Requires a district school board to have a policy requiring expulsion when a student commits assault against or propels bodily fluids or another dangerous substance at a school employee. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3686

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act sets the date and the process for a special election in the late fall of 2025 for electors to vote on a proposed change in the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the date and process for a special election to be held on November 4, 2025, for electors to approve or reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would require future constitutional amendments or revisions to obtain a three-fifths majority vote of the votes cast for adoption. Appropriates moneys to pay direct expenses incurred by the state to hold the special election. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1163

Introduced
2/27/25  
Requires a person that makes or sells farm equipment to give items to an owner that are needed to look at, maintain or fix the equipment. Says what else the person must do to let the owner fix the equipment. Says that the state can fine the person for a violation of the Act. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available on fair and reasonable terms to a public body that owns or leases agricultural equipment any documentation, tool, part, embedded software, firmware, data or other device or implement for diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating the agricultural equipment that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider. Specifies additional obligations for the original equipment manufacturer. Permits the Attorney General in response to a complaint to make an investigative demand of an original equipment manufacturer that appears to have violated the Act. Specifies the contents of the investigative demand and the method of service. Subjects an original equipment manufacturer that violates the Act to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day of the violation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3777

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act makes Election Day a legal holiday. The Act sets the date for the legal holiday. The Act requires employers to provide eight hours of Election Day paid time off for their employees. The Act makes voting in person the normal method for voting. The Act requires voters to show picture ID when voting or requesting a ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Designates Election Day as a legal holiday on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even-numbered year. Requires employers of employees to provide up to eight hours of paid Election Day leave. Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election. Allows an elector to request a ballot that may be voted by mail if the elector is unable to vote in person on the date of the election. Retains vote by mail as the primary method for conducting elections for military and overseas electors and for electors who have a mailing address outside of Oregon. Requires electors to present valid government-issued identification when appearing in-person to vote or when requesting a ballot be sent by mail. Requires all ballots to be returned by the date of an election. Removes a requirement that the state pay postage for ballots returned by mail.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1143

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
Makes the PUC create a program to have each gas company create a thermal energy network pilot project. Makes each gas company apply to create a pilot project. Makes labor standards for certain covered projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4). [Digest: Makes the PUC create a program to have each gas company create a thermal energy network pilot project. Makes each gas company apply to create a pilot project. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a pilot program that allows each natural gas company to develop a utility-scale thermal energy network pilot project to provide heating and cooling services to customers. Requires each natural gas company to file a proposal and plan to develop a pilot project or an explanation for why the natural gas company is not submitting a proposal. Identifies criteria the commission shall take into consideration in evaluating a proposal. Establishes labor standards and reporting requirements for certain thermal energy network projects. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3767

Introduced
2/27/25  
This Act allows cities or counties to impose rent control. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Repeals the prohibition on local rent control. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.