All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3627
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
3/28/25
Refer
3/28/25
The Act creates the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund. The Act tells a state agency to give money from the fund to disabled veterans for some purposes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund. Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide grants to disabled veterans for accessibility resources at residences inhabited by the veteran if the residence is owned by the veteran or a family member of the veteran. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3628
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Creates a public body to fund, build, upgrade, own and carry out transmission projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Oregon Electric Transmission Authority as an independent public corporation. Provides that the authority shall support the expansion of electric transmission capacity in this state by financing, developing, constructing, upgrading, owning and operating electric transmission infrastructure. Directs the authority to identify and establish electric transmission corridors with statewide significance. Authorizes the authority to finance transmission projects by issuing revenue bonds and collecting payments from the users of the authority's transmission facilities. Establishes the Tribal Advisory Council on Electric Transmission. Directs the authority to submit an annual report to the interim committees or committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy on the authority's activities and operations for the preceding year. Limits the authority's annual operating budget to no more than $2 million. Provides for the collection of a nonbypassable charge from large industrial electricity customers to fund the authority's operating budget. Sunsets January 2, 2032. Requires the State Department of Energy to conduct a review of the authority and submit a report to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy for the Legislative Assembly's consideration to extend the sunset date. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3629
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act sets up a public corporation to work on new ways to build emergency readiness in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes the Oregon Partnership for Resilience as a public corporation, the mission of which is to enhance the emergency preparedness of the state through innovation. Establishes the governance structure and sets forth powers and duties of the partnership. Requires annual reporting to the Legislative Assembly and the Governor of partnership activities and plans.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3630
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act would make it so estates would not pay estate tax for farm, forestry or fishing interests that are owned by trusts and businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity. Adds detail to look-back and look-forward provisions as applicable to entities. Allows for replacement property. Applies to estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3631
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act creates a pilot program to provide youth mental health and substance use prevention services. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a thriving youth pilot program to provide substance use prevention education through comprehensive out-of-school programming and access to specialized mental or behavioral health services to youth in 20 counties in this state. Requires the authority to submit an interim report on the outcomes of the pilot program and a report on the feasibility of extending the pilot program. Sunsets the pilot program on January 2, 2029. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3632
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act stops certain housing communities from banning certain acts of free expression in shared spaces and common areas. The Act creates some exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Prohibits continuing care retirement communities from banning certain acts of free expression in community spaces or common areas of the continuing care retirement community. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to impose a civil penalty against a continuing care retirement community that violates the prohibition.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3633
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act limits pretrial release for people charged with certain crimes. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4). Sets a minimum amount of security for persons charged with Ballot Measure 11 (1994) offenses. Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with a felony or Class A misdemeanor who commit a new felony or Class A misdemeanor while on release. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3634
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act makes new laws with respect to workforce development activities with respect to the water workforce. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce. Directs the commission to award grants to local workforce development boards to administer the program. [Requires the commission to disburse funds appropriated for the purpose of administering the program to local workforce development boards within a certain timeline.] Requires the commission and local workforce development boards to consult with certain entities to establish a process and criteria for distributing moneys to certain subgrantees and entities that participate in certain workforce development activities. Requires the commission and the boards to establish the process and criteria within a certain timeline. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3635
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
3/28/25
Refer
3/28/25
The Act raises the cap on XI-G bond revenues that a community college may receive. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Increases the limit on the aggregate amount of XI-G general obligation bonds that may be issued for projects at a single community college. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3636
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Says that an insurer that offers car insurance must also offer PIP benefits. Lets a driver decide whether to accept or not. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires insurers to offer personal injury protection benefits to persons insured under the insurer's motor vehicle liability policy, but makes the decision to elect to receive personal injury protection benefits optional.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3637
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act tells the CSLESCD to study law enforcement standards and tell a committee what the study found. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires the Commission on Statewide Law Enforcement Standards of Conduct and Discipline to study law enforcement standards of conduct and discipline. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3638
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Extends the time that a person can file a written grievance that a public body broke the rules for executive sessions. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Extends the time a person may file a written grievance that a governing body acted in violation of the rules and requirements for executive sessions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3639
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
This Act prohibits collecting SDCs for a new urban home before the home is built. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Prohibits local governments from requiring the payment of a system development charge prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy for a dwelling within an urban growth boundary.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3640
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act makes new laws with respect to the registration of farm worker housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires that rules adopted by the Department of Consumer and Business Services with respect to the registration of farmworker camps be consistent with federal regulations governing farmworker housing health and safety standards. Directs the department to register farmworker camps that comply with certain federal regulations. Becomes operative on January 1, 2028.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3641
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act says that a person may not deliver the ballot of another person. The Act has exceptions. The Act imposes specified fines for a violation. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning a ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions. Imposes a fine of $2,500 per ballot for a person other than an individual that illegally collects and returns the ballot of an individual and a fine of $500 per ballot for an individual who illegally collects and returns the ballot of a different individual.