Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 74)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2300

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that a plaintiff may not sue a person who talks about certain bad behavior if the person has a reasonable belief that it happened. The Act says that the plaintiff has to pay the person's lawyer fees and sanctions. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Provides that a person may not bring a civil action against an individual who, without malice, makes a communication regarding an incident of sexual assault, sexual harassment or sex discrimination if, at the time of making the communication, the individual has a reasonable belief that sexual assault, sexual harassment or sex discrimination occurred. Allows the prevailing defendant to recover attorney fees and provides for imposition of remedial sanctions against the plaintiff.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2012

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would alter a definition with respect to laws about private security services. The Act will take effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Modifies the definition of "private security entity" for purposes of private security requirements. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB60

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act says that claims about child abuse are not subject to the notice requirement of the OTCA. The Act revives some claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.4). Exempts claims based on conduct that constitutes child abuse, or conduct that constitutes knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse, from the notice requirement of the Oregon Tort Claims Act. Revives certain causes of action barred because of the notice requirement or the statute of limitations or repose. Requires a revived claim to be filed within two years after the effective date of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB5051

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/17/25  
Engrossed
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Passed
4/16/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
The Act changes the amounts that can be spent for certain capital construction costs. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). [Digest: The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).] [Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to _____ 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 _______.] [Limits biennial expenditures from federal funds.] Modifies the amounts authorized for certain capital construction costs. Declares an emergency, effective [July 1, 2025] on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2048

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act stops OHA from licensing a food cart that does not have a separate licensed kitchen for preparing food. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority from issuing a license to a food cart that does not have a licensed commissary as a base of operation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB553

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells ODOE to study data center power usage and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage. 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 HJM8

Introduced
1/13/25  
Urges Congress to pass a law about budgets. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Urges Congress to pass legislation to prevent a future shutdown of the federal government from lasting more than 50 days in the event of an impasse between Congress and the President.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB635

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act tells OSU to study and make a report on nuclear energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Directs Oregon State University to conduct a feasibility study on nuclear energy generation in this state. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2138

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/19/25  
Refer
6/19/25  
Report Pass
6/23/25  
Enrolled
6/24/25  
Passed
7/17/25  
Chaptered
8/7/25  
This Act allows for denser home building in cities and requires the LCDC to adopt rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Expands allowable middle housing and expands middle housing requirements to include urban unincorporated lands. Expands allowable single room occupancies. Establishes dates by which local governments must implement changes. Makes retroactive the prohibition on private restrictions, including restrictions in governing documents of planned communities, that would limit middle housing, accessory dwelling units or housing density. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Reforms expedited land division provisions and makes such divisions land use decisions that are exempt from hearing requirements and appeals by opponents. Allows for plats that consolidate a land division and a middle housing land division and requires review within 120 days. Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to promote housing development and implement various provisions of this Act. Increases appropriations for rulemaking and for technical assistance grants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB788

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act allows some events on eastern Oregon farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB678

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act undoes changes in law by Senate Bill 762 (2021). The changes concern how to class wildfire risk. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Undoes wildfire protection provisions adopted in Senate Bill 762 (2021). Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2349

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act would allow the state to aid sponsors with the financing of industrial land projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land. Establishes the Industrial Site Loan Fund in the State Treasury.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2395

Introduced
1/13/25  
Lets a rural county ask ODVA for money to help the county keep its veteran services. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to distribute moneys for county veterans' service officers to counties that have a population of less than 30,000 and are or will be unable to maintain operations of county veterans' service officers due to budget decreases. Requires counties to apply for moneys. Establishes requirements for application. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB820

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes when the parole board is required to classify some sex offenders. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.6). Provides that the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision is required to classify sex offender registrants convicted before January 1, 2014, into a risk level only in specified circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3062

Introduced
1/13/25  
This Act makes new factories study and reduce harms to sensitive people. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires local governments to map sensitive uses as part of a comprehensive plan. Requires, before allowing the development of industrial uses, study and mitigation of impacts on nearby sensitive uses and an additional public hearing. Requires local governments to map sensitive uses by January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.