Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 8)

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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB397

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies. The Act allows such practices to the extent they comply with federal law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB308

Introduced
1/13/25  
Tells the HECC to study college learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the commission to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB670

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act restores the offense level of the crime of drug possession to what it was before Ballot Measure 110. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2). Restores, for possession of a controlled substance crimes, the offense level each crime had prior to the enactment of the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)). Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, or 30 days' imprisonment, $1,250 fine, or both, depending upon the scheduling of the controlled substance. Punishes by five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, or ten years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both, in specified circumstances. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2146

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells ODHS to study adult foster homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of Human Services to study certain adult foster homes. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2922

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/7/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
4/30/25  
Passed
5/8/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
The Act allows employees of State Parks to keep their home address private in ODOT records. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Provides that State Parks and Recreation Department employees whose job classification is a park manager or a park ranger are eligible to request that records kept by the Department of Transportation contain the employer's address instead of the employee's home address.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB639

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act tells the State Forester to manage state forests in a manner that keeps fuel load levels low. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2). Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2340

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act makes a home eligible for tax deferral after three years of living in it instead of five. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Reduces the minimum number of years that property must have been the homestead of an individual before the property is eligible for the homestead property tax deferral program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB3137

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
5/21/25  
Enrolled
6/11/25  
Passed
6/24/25  
Chaptered
7/25/25  
The Act changes laws about folks who work as real estate agents. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Modifies laws related to regulation of real estate professionals. Defines "managing principal broker" and prescribes responsibilities.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HJR5

Introduced
1/13/25  
The measure asks voters to fix the maximum age to seek statewide elected office or to seek to be a member of the state Senate or the state House. The measure asks voters to say yes or no at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.9). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish a maximum age beyond which candidates for election or reelection to executive branch statewide elected office or the office of State Senator or State Representative may not seek elective office. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB795

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/10/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Enrolled
5/5/25  
Passed
5/14/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
The Act changes laws about the cleanup of marine vessels that have been left alone or that are in bad shape. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Modifies the meaning of terms used for purposes of the abandoned and derelict vessel laws. Clarifies that an authorized agency may remove and dispose of marine debris without notice. Creates the offense of abandoning a vessel. Punishes by a maximum fine of $2,000. Expands the offense of possession of a derelict vessel. Authorizes the Director of the Department of State Lands to procure or supervise the procurement of goods, services and personal services related to the removal of abandoned and derelict vessels. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB842

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
6/23/25  
Engrossed
6/25/25  
Refer
6/25/25  
Report Pass
6/26/25  
Enrolled
6/26/25  
Passed
7/31/25  
Chaptered
8/13/25  
Raises for hospitals the annual license fees to be paid to OHA. Repeals fees for compliance actions. Allows assessment of a late fee for a hospital that fails to pay a renewal license fee. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.9). Increases for hospitals the annual license fees to be obtained by the Oregon Health Authority. Repeals fees that the Oregon Health Authority may charge for investigation and compliance activities. Allows the assessment of a late fee for a hospital that fails to pay a renewal license fee. Makes confidential and not subject to public disclosure information obtained by the Oregon Health Authority or the Department of Human Services during an intake or triage of a complaint or reported violation regarding the standard of care in a health care facility. Allows the Oregon Health Authority to accept a certification or accreditation from a federal agency or an accrediting body if a health care facility provides to the authority copies of summary documentation concerning the certification or accreditation. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon State Hospital for the payment of increased hospital licensing fees. Takes effect on October 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB481

Introduced
1/13/25  
Says that a person must get a license to provide earned income access services in this state. Says what the person must do to get the license and how a state agency can decide whether to issue the license. Says what the person can and cannot do in providing the services. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.4). Requires a license to provide earned income access services in this state. Specifies procedures for applying for a license, the contents of an application and criteria under which the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may issue a license. Specifies requirements that a licensee or service provider must meet and prohibitions on certain actions. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 for each violation of a provision of the Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB249

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
The Act tells OHA to study mental health treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health treatment. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2192

Introduced
1/13/25  
Makes a public body that gets and keeps a person's data to get and keep the person's status as an immigrant or citizen. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires each public body that collects and maintains personal information about individuals to collect and maintain information on each individual's immigration or citizenship status. Directs the State Chief Information Officer and the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules on uniform standards and procedures for compiling and maintaining the information. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB2702

Introduced
1/13/25  
The Act creates a fund for ODEM to give funds to local governments when needed to get federal aid or for disaster grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund. Provides that moneys in the fund may be used by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue grants to local governments to make matching contributions necessary to access federal aid or to assist or support disaster response efforts.