All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3507
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Amends OHCS's HOAP and CRO-DPA programs to reach more home owners. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to amend specified down payment assistance programs to increase eligibility by January 1, 2026. Amends department home ownership programs to expand eligibility to moderate income households. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3508
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
The Act tells SFD to work with others and do a study about how to better manage forests in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Directs the State Forestry Department, in collaboration with the Oregon Business Development Department and the Housing and Community Services Department, to study methods for improving active forest management in this state. Directs the State Forestry Department to submit findings and recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources, housing and agriculture not later than September 15, 2027. Sunsets on January 2, 2028. Appropriates moneys to the State Forestry Department for the study. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3509
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
The Act creates an escrow fund to hold CCO restricted reserves. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Creates the Community Escrow Fund in the State Treasury to hold coordinated care organization restricted reserves. Allows a coordinated care organization to request from the Oregon Health Authority payments from the fund in amounts needed to pay costs not accounted for in establishing the coordinated care organization's global budget.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3510
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Stops people from using ways of buying up tickets to events that evade a ticket seller's security or limit on the number of tickets a person can buy. Says that a reseller must have a ticket before it can sell the ticket. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Prohibits knowingly or intentionally selling or offering for sale admission tickets that a person obtains by using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event. Prohibits a reseller from selling or offering for resale an admission ticket unless the reseller has actual or constructive possession of the admission ticket and makes certain disclosures before completing the sale. Punishes violations of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3511
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
The Act tells some state agencies to take steps to raise awareness of the negative health effects of using betel nuts. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to award grants to community-based organizations to conduct a public health campaign on the negative health effects of using betel nuts. Requires the Oregon Medical Board and the Oregon State Board of Nursing to ensure that health care providers are trained on the negative health effects of using betel nuts. Directs the Department of Education and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to ensure information on the negative health effects of using betel nuts is incorporated into curricula. Requires the authority to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public health no later than December 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3512
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
This Act prohibits the sale of certain products that contain PFAS. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Prohibits the distribution or sale of certain covered products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires a manufacturer of covered products to provide a certificate of compliance to persons that sell or distribute covered products in this state. Authorizes the Attorney General to investigate and bring an action to obtain an injunction or a civil penalty for violations of the Act. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3513
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
This Act tells the DEQ to study and make a report on solid waste incinerators. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study solid waste incinerators. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3514
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
The Act directs a county clerk to publish a voters' pamphlet for certain elections. The Act directs a county clerk to publish an official tally of votes at least two times on the day of certain elections. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Requires the county clerk to publish a county voters' pamphlet for any primary and general election. Requires the county clerk to publish at least two unofficial tallies of votes on the day of each primary election and general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3515
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of nonlethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3516
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
The Act tells the AG to study issues about following state laws related to workplace safety and health. The Act requires a report to be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Attorney General to study matters relating to state laws affecting safety and health in places of employment. Directs the Attorney General to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3517
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
This Act tells some health insurers, OHP, PEBB and OEBB to cover some treatments for the chronic disease of obesity. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires a policy or certificate of health insurance or health care services contract offered by a health care service contractor in this state, state medical assistance and health benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to cover certain treatments for an obesity diagnosis with certain requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3518
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
The Act would raise the county recording fee that goes to the County Assessment and Taxation Fund. The Act would index that fee to inflation. The Act would send a set percentage of all property tax moneys other than bond levies to the same fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Increases the county recording fee that is credited to the County Assessment and Taxation Fund and indexes the fee to inflation. Provides that a certain percentage of all tax moneys other than bond levy moneys be deposited in the same fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3519
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
Creates a program to provide for a cultural exchange for students. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Department of Education to provide oversight of a program that coordinates an in-state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state. Prescribes the requirements of the program. Directs the department to transfer moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account for the program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3520
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/7/25
Makes a person that wants to build a building or structure near an interstate pipeline to give notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires a person that proposes to construct a building or structure located within 1,000 feet of an interstate pipeline to notify the Oregon Utility Notification Center. Prohibits a state agency or municipality from issuing a building permit for a building or structure unless the agency or municipality receives a copy of the notice and a copy of a reply from the owner or operator of the interstate pipeline. Requires an owner or operator of an interstate pipeline each year to provide contact information to the Oregon Utility Notification Center. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3521
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
4/11/25
Engrossed
4/21/25
Refer
4/21/25
This Act awards an applicant money from a landlord who breaks a promise to rent a home and does not return the deposit soon after. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). [Digest: This Act awards damages if a landlord revokes an offer of housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.