All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB613
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act repeals certain provisions from the pay equity law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies pay equity requirements for employers. Removes certain provisions relating to obligations, rights and remedies under pay equity laws. Makes conforming amendments. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB614
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act lets a person offering some dangerous sports make a patron sign a release of claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows an operator offering or providing facilities for an inherently dangerous sporting activity to require a patron to provide an anticipatory release from certain claims for liability, including claims arising out of the negligence of the operator and claims for unreasonable conditions created by the operator. Provides that the release is not unconscionable. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB615
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates a way to charge and sentence a person who causes permanent injury to another. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Establishes a procedure for charging an aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when the defendant causes permanent physical injury to the victim during the commission of the crime. Provides that if the defendant is convicted of the aggravated offense, the court shall sentence the defendant to 300 months' imprisonment. Authorizes the court to impose a lesser sentence in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB616
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act stops a city from limiting home building for tree preservation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits a local government from conditioning the development or use of property for needed housing based on the retention of trees. Provides exceptions. Sunsets January 1, 2036.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB617
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that a finding that a crime constitutes DV is not an element of the crime, and changes when a person is GEI. The Act also changes the meaning of a term and enhances a sentence for some crimes involving children. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9). Provides that an admission or a finding that a crime constitutes domestic violence is not an element of the crime for merger purposes. Modifies when a person is guilty except for insanity. Modifies the meaning of "sexually explicit conduct" for certain crimes involving children. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify invasion of personal privacy in the first degree as a crime category 8 on the sentencing guidelines grid when the victim is a minor.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB618
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells school districts to designate sports by gender. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires school districts to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex. Prohibits biological males from participating in athletic competitions or extracurricular sports designated for biological females. Provides causes of action for students and school districts. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB619
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes how the Governor may grant pardons and take similar actions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires that all executive clemency actions by the Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB62
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act creates new programs for increasing consumers' voice in the mental health care system. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and delivery of, behavioral health services in this state. Requires coordinated care organizations to contribute $1 per member per month toward the consumer engagement program. Requires the authority to administer a pilot program in eastern Oregon to develop an innovative model for providing residential treatment to young adults experiencing early psychosis in conjunction with a substance use disorder. Sunsets the pilot program on January 2, 2036. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB620
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the AG to report each year on settlement agreements entered into by DOJ that make the state pay more than $4 million. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the Attorney General to report annually to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary on settlement agreements entered into by the Department of Justice that require the state to pay over $4 million.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB621
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that new fees or increased fees that an agency adopts have to be approved by the Legislative Assembly. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Provides that new or increased fees adopted by state agencies do not become effective unless approved by the Legislative Assembly by law. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB622
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make it so that employers do not have to pay unemployment taxes on the wages of noncitizens who work here on H-2A visas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB623
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act increases crime seriousness for the crime of attempting to elude a police officer. The Act states the OCJC must make sentence longer than the OCJC has it now. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.3). Increases sentencing guidelines for felony attempting to elude a police officer.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB624
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that groups that get money from the state must report on how they spent the money and on any political contributions they made. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of the Legislative Assembly. Directs state agencies to notify recipients of the requirements of the Act. Requires persons required to file reports under the Act to disclose amounts and recipients of political contributions made within a specified time frame. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB625
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act repeals laws related to overtime pay for agricultural workers who work more than the maximum hour limit in one week. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Repeals provisions requiring employers to pay overtime to agricultural workers who work in excess of the maximum allowable hours. Repeals provisions related to the refundable income or corporate excise tax credit allowed to employers for the excess amount of wages paid as overtime pay for agricultural workers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB626
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act expands three crimes to include digitally-created images. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Expands the crimes of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree, second degree and third degree to include visual depictions of child abuse that are computer-generated. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.