Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 7)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2893

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a strike. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials. Directs the division to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly with findings.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB732

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the Governor to pick a new head of some agencies within three months after the Senate fails to confirm the reappointment of the head. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Governor to appoint a new head of certain agencies within three months after the Senate fails to confirm the reappointment of the head of the agency.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SJR12

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure asks voters to require each bill to get a two-thirds vote in favor in the Senate and the House to pass during short sessions. The measure asks voters to say yes or no at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require a vote of at least two-thirds of all members elected to each House of the Legislative Assembly to pass bills during an even-numbered year regular session of the Legislative Assembly. Refers the proposed amendment to voters for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB277

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Enrolled
5/5/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Allows for the sharing of data as needed to effect an extradition for a crime of a person from outside of this country to this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Allows a law enforcement agency or public body to provide information, or enter into an agreement to provide information, as required to effect an international extradition and return of a person charged with or convicted of a crime in this state and for whom a warrant of arrest has been issued. Prohibits a law enforcement agency or public body from entering into an agreement to provide information about an individual in custody to a federal immigration authority. Provides for exceptions. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB704

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes new laws for state agencies to determine the employment status of workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor and to cooperate in adopting rules to facilitate consistency in the application of the statutory provisions concerning independent contractors and the provisions of the Act. Creates a rebuttable presumption that an individual who performs work for remuneration for a hiring entity is an employee when the employment status of the individual is at issue.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2108

Introduced
1/13/25  
Directs ODE to contract with a third party to conduct a study of options to promote the good use of classroom time. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Requires the Department of Education to contract with a third party to conduct a study to determine how to promote the effective use of instructional time for the purposes of achieving positive learning outcomes and promoting a positive classroom learning environment. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB524

Introduced
1/13/25  
Excludes certain students from the ASDP laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Excludes certain students from the requirements of an abbreviated school day program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB5518

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/2/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Enrolled
6/13/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/2/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Energy for certain 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 department. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2273

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes the OBDD do a study on telecommunications. Makes the OBDD submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study telecommunications. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB743

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act requires that some interviews with a person who may have abused a child must be electronically recorded. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Requires the Department of Human Services or a law enforcement agency to electronically record certain interviews in child abuse investigations.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB502

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act awards legal fees against a third party who fails in appealing a land use decision. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Awards attorney fees against an intervenor in any unsuccessful appeal of a quasi-judicial land use decision.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2856

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells ODVA to give grants to offset costs that groups incur but did not expect to incur in repurposing buildings for veteran housing. Creates a fund with lottery moneys to fund the grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to offset unexpected increases in costs in repurposing buildings for veteran housing and housing programs. Establishes the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund. Directs the State Treasury to transfer, each biennium, moneys from the Veterans' Department of Veterans' Affairs Dedicated Lottery Fund to the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund to be used by the department to provide the grants.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5027

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
6/11/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision 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 board. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2614

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
4/15/25  
Engrossed
4/23/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
7/24/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
The Act makes various changes to the OPDC. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to submit an agency request budget to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services after approval by commission members. Modifies the requirements for policies concerning compensation and caseloads. Removes the authority of the commission to advocate for or against legislation. Modifies the authority of the Governor, beginning January 1, 2026, over the appointment and removal of the executive director of the commission [and the removal of commission members]. Changes the date, from July 1, 2027, to January 1, 2026, on which the authority of the Governor over the removal of commission members is limited. [Extends] Removes the sunset on the authority of the commission to contract with entities that subcontract with other entities or persons for the provision of public defense services [until July 1, 2033]. Specifies standards and requirements for subcontracting entities. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB440

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act raises the exemption amount and the filing threshold for the CAT for home builders. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax as applicable to homebuilding contracts. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.