Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 69)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3744

Introduced
2/25/25  
Creates a task force to evaluate how school districts respond to reports of misconduct. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Task Force on Investigations of School Employee Misconduct. Prescribes the duties of the task force. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3666

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
4/11/25  
Makes a power company apply to the PUC to show that the company carries out wildfire safety. Allows COUs to apply. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires an electric public utility to apply for a wildfire safety certification. Allows a consumer-owned utility to apply for a wildfire safety certification. Directs the Public Utility Commission to issue a certification if the applicant has and implements, as applicable, a wildfire protection plan or wildfire mitigation plan and meets certain requirements. Establishes a statutory presumption that a utility that has been issued a wildfire safety certification is acting reasonably with regard to wildfire safety practices and materially consistent with the utility's wildfire protection plan or wildfire mitigation plan. Provides that a certification is valid for 12 months. Declares legislative findings with regard to human-caused wildfires and utilities.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1079

Introduced
2/25/25  
This Act adds moneys to a housing fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Appropriates moneys to the Housing Project Revolving Loan Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3730

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act says what "low-proof spirit beverage" means and that some OLCC licensees can sell low-proof spirit beverages. The Act also says that there is a tax on the sale of a low-proof spirit beverage. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Allows a licensee, permittee or certificate holder authorized to import, export, sell, distribute, ship or deliver wine to import, export, sell, distribute, ship and deliver low-proof spirit beverages. Defines "low-proof spirit beverages." Conditionally allows a distillery licensee to distribute or deliver low-proof spirit beverages. Allows a distillery licensee to import, manufacture, offer tasting of and make certain sales of low-proof spirit beverages. Allows an importer of distilled liquor to import low-proof spirit beverages. Imposes a tax on the privilege of engaging in business as a manufacturer or importing distributor of low-proof spirit beverages. Creates exceptions. Makes provisions regarding tax payments, liens and record keeping applicable for low-proof spirit beverages. Applies to low-proof spirit beverages manufactured or imported on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HCR21

Introduced
2/25/25  
Honors the life of a survivor of the Holocaust. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Recognizes and honors Holocaust survivor ___. .
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3721

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act tells an agency to study some impacts of removing certain dams. The Act prohibits a person from removing a certain type of dam until after the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Directs the Water Resources Department to study the socioeconomic impacts of the removal of the Klamath River dams. Directs the department to submit a report on the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026. Prohibits a person from removing a certain type of dam until after the report is submitted. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3675

Introduced
2/25/25  
Makes OHA do a study on staffing plans for hospitals and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study staffing plans for hospitals. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3727

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
6/20/25  
Chaptered
7/7/25  
The Act says a doctor or PA can sometimes give care to their patient who is temporarily out of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Allows a physician or physician associate to use telemedicine to practice medicine or provide health care services under specified circumstances to a patient located out of state. Clarifies that the physician or physician associate is subject to the laws regulating the practice of medicine in the jurisdiction where the patient is located.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1179

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act changes sentencing for people who are survivors of domestic abuse. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence that the defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a contributing factor in the criminal behavior. Provides that such evidence constitutes substantial and compelling reasons justifying a downward departure sentence. Authorizes the court to impose a lesser sentence even if there is a mandatory minimum sentence or a sentence otherwise required by law. Creates a procedure by which a person currently serving a sentence may petition the court for resentencing if the person was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a contributing factor in the criminal behavior. Establishes the Task Force on Services and Support for Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1159

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act moves the office of Children's Advocate from DHS to the LTCO, changes how the CA is appointed and moves oversight of the CIRTs from DHS to the CA. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Transfers the office of Children's Advocate from the Department of Human Services to the office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman. Establishes the Children's Advocacy Advisory Board to nominate candidates for the Governor to select from when appointing the Children's Advocate. Expands the duties and authority of the Children's Advocate. Transfers oversight of the Critical Incident Review Teams from the Director of Human Services to the Children's Advocate. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. .
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3885

Introduced
2/27/25  
The Act says that ODOT must study highways in this state. The Act says ODOT must report to the JCT. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to highways and present the results of the study to the Joint Committee on Transportation. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3773

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
4/15/25  
Adds persons who work with veterans as a new type of traditional health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt by rule qualification criteria for veteran-specific personal health navigators as an additional category of traditional health workers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3869

Introduced
2/27/25  
Makes ODOE do a study with the PUC on energy procurement. Makes ODOE submit a report on its finding. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3713

Introduced
2/25/25  
The Act allows corporate NOLs to be carried forward to all tax years. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Removes the 15-year limitation on the carryforward of net operating losses by corporate excise taxpayers. Limits the net operation loss deduction to 95 percent of taxable income in a tax year. Applies to the determination of Oregon taxable income for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and to net losses arising in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2010. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3724

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Refer
4/9/25  
Report Pass
4/28/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Chaptered
6/6/25  
The Act says that marijuana items may not be labeled or packed in a way that makes minors want the marijuana items. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.