All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3942
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Report Pass
4/14/25
Engrossed
4/23/25
Refer
4/23/25
Tells OHA and DHS to create a fast process for issuing licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: Tells OHA and DHS to create a fast process for reissuing licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).] [Allows a health care facility to apply for an expedited reissuance of a license if the health care facility was previously licensed within the last 24 months, closed voluntarily or due to financial hardship and will resume operations with no significant changes.] Allows a person or government unit to use an expedited licensure process to operate a health care facility, if the license is to operate a health care facility in the same physical location and of the same type as a health care facility that previously operated at the location and the previously operated health care facility closed within the last 24 months voluntarily or due to financial hardship. Allows an applicant to be issued a provisional license to operate the health care facility while the applicant's application is being processed and reviewed. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3943
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
This Act makes agencies report on impacts of current and future rules on home production. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires all state agencies to prepare a report within 60 days on the impacts of the agency's current rules on construction of new housing and the agency's land that may be available for housing production. Requires the agencies to submit the report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026. Expands, to all state agencies, the requirement to complete housing impact statements upon proposing rules. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3944
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act repeals laws related to the building code, laws making areas less at risk for wildfire, laws about fire protection for certain lands and a map of wildfire hazard. The Act makes changes related to helping with defensible space. The Act makes changes related to certain areas near forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map. Makes changes related to defensible space. Makes changes related to the wildland-urban interface. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3945
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act makes changes to the OGEC's duties and number of members. The Act states whether some situations may be ethics violations. The Act allows local government officials to vote on changes to pay and stipends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Limits duties of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission in conducting investigations, making findings and imposing penalties regarding violations of quorum requirements in public meetings law to intentional violations. Provides that the use of serial electronic written communication among members of a governing body within a 30-day period may constitute a meeting of a governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied. Exempts from the prohibition on the use of official positions or office to obtain financial gain or avoid financial detriment any legal expenses incurred by a public official or governmental agency for specified purposes. Permits local government officials to vote on matters related to official compensation. Increases the size of the commission to 11 members and requires the Governor to appoint two practicing attorneys to the commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3946
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act adds preschools to drug crimes based on proximity to schools. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Defines "schools" as including preschools for purposes of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance crimes occurring within 1,000 feet of a school. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3947
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act changes the kicker estimate to fund help against wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Requires that the difference between the amount actually collected and the amount estimated after the close of the 2023 regular session be used for funding wildfire prevention and response. Provides for the return to taxpayers of surplus revenue over the adjusted estimate amount if the constitutional threshold is exceeded. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3948
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act makes it a worse crime to fly a drone over a correctional facility. The Act says that the court can take away the drone upon conviction. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.7). Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility. Makes the crime punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Provides that, upon conviction, the court shall order that the unmanned aircraft system be forfeited. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3949
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Changes the terms of a contract between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prescribes requirements related to contracts entered into between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks and instructional materials.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3950
Introduced
3/24/25
Refer
3/27/25
The Act allows a landowner in a certain area to store water for preventing or fighting fires. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows a person who owns property on which a certain spring originates to store water from the spring for use for fire prevention and fire suppression if the person obtains a permit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3951
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
4/1/25
The Act changes the agency that oversees places that rescue animals. The Act changes the records that the places have to keep. The Act makes changes related to licensing the places. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Provides that veterinary facilities do not qualify as animal rescue entities for purposes of regulating animal rescue entities. Directs the State Department of Agriculture to enforce provisions related to regulating animal rescue entities. Makes changes related to recordkeeping and licensing requirements for animal rescue entities. Removes the impoundment of animals as a civil penalty for a violation of provisions related to animal rescue entities.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3952
Introduced
3/31/25
Refer
4/1/25
The Act gives money to the parole board to get rid of the sex offender risk assessment backlog. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Appropriates moneys to the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision for purposes of eliminating the backlog of sex offenders who have not yet been assessed and placed into a risk level.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3953
Introduced
3/31/25
Refer
4/7/25
Allows an Indian tribe to ask the State Board of Education to be the sponsor of a public charter school. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Allows an applicant for a public charter school that is a federally recognized Indian tribe in this state to directly apply to the State Board of Education for sponsorship.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3954
Introduced
4/2/25
Refer
4/9/25
Tells the AG to not allow a person or unit of the guard to be called into active service except for certain reasons. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits the Adjutant General for assisting or allowing the United States Department of Defense or any branch thereof to communicate with any individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard for purposes of calling the individual or unit into active service unless the active service is for a certain listed reason. Prohibits the Adjutant General from allowing an individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard to be called into active service if the call into active service results in the Oregon National Guard being incapable of responding to a statewide emergency. Directs that an Adjutant General be immediately dismissed for violations of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3955
Introduced
4/7/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act creates a fund matching program for research at OHSU. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a program to provide matching funds for research at Oregon Health and Science University. Directs the university to provide confirmation that the university has received a specified amount of private funding for research before the university may receive moneys under the program. Establishes the OHSU Research Fund to support the program. Appropriates moneys to the commission for deposit into the fund. Sunsets the program and the fund on January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3956
Introduced
4/8/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act says that a syringe service program has to register with the local public health authority. The Act also says that an LPHA may not let a methadone clinic be close to a school. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.6). Requires a syringe service program to register with the local public health authority responsible for the jurisdiction in which the syringe service program operates. Defines "syringe service program." Removes the ability of a county or local public health authority to waive siting restrictions for methadone clinics.