All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB472
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Allows an ESD board to decide whether a school board has violated a requirement regarding actual conflicts. The Act allows the school board to ask the SBE to make a final decision. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Authorizes an education service district board to determine whether a district school board has violated a requirement regarding actual conflicts of interest. Authorizes a district school board to request the State Board of Education to make a final determination regarding an alleged violation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB473
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/11/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act creates a new crime of threatening a public official. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3). Creates the crime of threatening a public official. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, for the first offense, and a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for subsequent offenses. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB474
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
The Act creates a criminal defense legal clinic. The Act provides funding for the clinic. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Establishes the Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB475
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes how overtime is used in OPSRP. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Modifies how the overtime cap is calculated for use in calculating the final average salary of members of the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB476
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
The Act says staff of licensing boards must have culturally responsive training. The Act also allows OMB to give a doctor trained in another country a license to practice in Oregon under some conditions. The Act also tells DHS to make a grant program to help people who went to school out of state get jobs in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.8). [Digest: The Act says licensing boards have to train their staff and that the OMB cannot set a time limit for someone to complete the USMLE. The Act also tells DHS to make a grant program to help people who went to school out of state get jobs in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).] Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals. [Prohibits the Oregon Medical Board from imposing a time limitation on the completion of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Allows the board to issue a limited license to practice medicine to specified individuals for practice under the supervision of another licensed physician.] Allows the Oregon Medical Board to issue a provisional license to a qualified internationally trained physician. Requires the holder of a provisional license to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician for four years prior to applying for full licensure. Directs the board to submit a report every odd-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care on the provisional licensure of internationally trained physicians. Establishes the Internationally Educated Workforce Reentry Grant Program within the Department of Human Services to award grants to specified entities that provide eligible career guidance and support services to internationally educated residents of Oregon who are seeking to enter the Oregon workforce in certain professions. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB477
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives money to the CJC for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB478
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act adds new duties to boards of community colleges. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Revises the duties of boards of education of community college districts. Requires the boards to approve a community college's membership in a state or national association. Permits the board to provide stipends to members of the board. Requires the members of the board to have an official electronic mail address that is posted on the website maintained by the community college. Requires the board to include an additional voting member of the board who is a full-time student at the community college. Requires the board to report to the Legislative Assembly on the board's compliance with the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB479
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act says that DEQ may not find that a sewer is available to a property unless it is less than 200 feet from the property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from determining, for purposes of issuing a sewage disposal construction permit, that a community or area-wide sewerage system is available unless the sewerage system is within 200 feet of the property to be served. Sunsets January 2, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB48
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
The Act would change how cities may amend their UGBs. The Act would let cities and counties pay back Housing and Community Services Department loans made in a certain program to fund affordable and middle housing from sources other than developer fees. The Act would let the cities and counties make loans as well as award grants to developers in the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). [Digest: This Act amends laws about home siting and construction. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).] Limits to within an urban growth boundary a dwelling developer's ability to apply updated land use regulations to pending application. Amends the temporary urban growth boundary expansion program. Allows cities and counties in a certain funding program for affordable and middle housing to repay loans made to them by the Housing and Community Services Department from sources other than developer fees. Allows the cities and counties to make loans as well as award grants to developers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB480
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to study point of sale systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study contract terms for point of sale systems. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to commerce not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB481
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
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 SB482
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make the rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB483
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells LPRO to look at ways that the LA can have oversight over administrative rules and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study methods for legislative oversight of administrative rules. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB484
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act raises the dollar limit for claims that can be filed in small claims court. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.1). Increases the limit for the amount of claims that may be filed in small claims court from $10,000 to $20,000.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB485
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would repeal the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.