All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB654
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Allows school districts to use students for work in district. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Authorizes district school boards to establish a policy to encourage students to develop vocational skills by performing maintenance tasks for school districts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB655
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the SOS to create a database of ballots for each election. Tells the county clerks to add e-copies of each ballot into the database. Requires each ballot to have an ID. Requires the ID to be secret other than to the voter. Allows a voter to view the voter's ballot in the database for 90 days following the election. Allows the county clerks to charge a reasonable fee for the cost of getting a ballot. Tells the county clerks to allow certain persons to watch the ballots being printed and inserted into mailing envelopes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a searchable and publicly accessible database containing a copy of every ballot cast in each election. Requires county clerks to scan and upload to the database each ballot cast prior to tallying the votes. Requires each ballot to be printed with a unique identifier that an elector may use to search the database for an electronic copy of the elector's ballot. Requires a ballot's identifier to be secret except to the elector. Permits an elector to inspect the elector's cast ballot for 90 days following the date of an election. Requires county clerks to store ballots in a manner that makes the ballots readily available to retrieve. Requires county clerks to store ballots in batches and to maintain an index that records where each ballot is stored. Permits county clerks to charge a reasonable fee to cover the cost of retrieving a ballot. Requires county clerks to permit authorized persons to watch the printing of ballots and the inserting of ballots in envelopes to be mailed to electors. Applies to primary, general and special elections held on or after January 1, 2027. Becomes operative January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB656
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates an income tax credit for a person who makes energy in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Creates an income tax credit for energy production in Oregon. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024. Establishes the Task Force on Free-Market Energy Production. Directs the task force to review existing laws related to energy production in Oregon to determine how to ensure all forms of energy production are regulated equally, based on scientific analysis of risks and rewards posed by each form of energy production. Sunsets the task force on January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB657
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires a school district board to pay teachers of certain subjects at least half of the school district budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Requires school district boards to ensure that a specified percentage of expenditures of the school district are paid as compensation to teachers of core academic subjects or manual skills. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB658
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that if a veteran applies for a job and has the right skills, the employer must interview them. If a veteran doesn't get the job, the employer has to send them a notice telling them why. The law also allows veterans to take legal action. The DVA will look into any complaints about unfair treatment of veterans in hiring. Lastly, public employers must have yearly training about how to support veterans, and completing this training can help protect them from claims of unfairness. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Provides that, when an interview is an element of the process of selecting a candidate for a civil service position from an eligibility list, the public employer must interview each veteran applicant who meets the qualifications for the position and shows transferable skills if the duties of the position are performed by only one person within the public employer's organization. Requires a public employer to provide written notice to a veteran who is eliminated from consideration for a vacant civil service position. Provides the right to a jury trial and permits awards of noneconomic damages in civil suits for a violation of veterans' employment preference statutes. Modifies the period for notice of a tort claim against a public body for violation of veterans' employment preference statutes. Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a program for investigation and nonbinding arbitration of alleged violations of veterans' employment preference statutes. Requires public employers to conduct an annual training related to veterans' employment preferences. Provides that conducting an approved annual training is an affirmative defense to a claim for violation of veterans' employment preference statutes.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB659
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act keeps a tuition waiver from being reduced by other aid amounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB66
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would let Business Oregon take stock of loans and grants made by the state to develop the economy. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to survey state loan and grant programs for economic development. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB660
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires state moneys received by a district or school to be used for the student for which the moneys are received. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires each school district, education service district and public charter school to ensure that state moneys received by the district or school are used to educate the student for which the moneys are received. First applies to the 2026-2027 school year. Takes effect July 1, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB661
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Stops the review of social studies standards by the State Board of Education. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Repeals the directive to the State Board of Education to review social studies standards. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB662
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a bigger amount for the tax credit that is allowed for gifts of money to political parties or to people who run for office. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Increases the maximum allowable amount of political contribution personal income tax credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB663
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that agencies may not charge fees. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Prohibits state agencies from charging fees.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB664
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act says that mines that use air, water or froth to remove metal from ore are gravity separation mines. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Provides that mines solely using gravity separation shall be deemed gravity separation mines. Modifies the definition of "gravity separation" to include froth flotation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB665
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that public bodies may not keep money from certain fines or civil penalties. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires public bodies to transfer moneys deriving from certain fines and civil penalties to the General Fund for general governmental purposes.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB666
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act places limits and duties on health care providers who perform abortions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency. Defines "abortion" and "health care provider." Prohibits the abortion of an unborn child with a probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks, except in the case of a medical emergency, rape or incest. Requires that an abortion of an unborn child with probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks be performed or induced in specified facilities and with specific safeguards in place. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care provider for violations. Requires a health care provider who performs or induces, or attempts to perform or induce, an abortion to file a report with the Oregon Health Authority. Requires the authority to publish annually statistics relating to abortion. Allows specified persons to bring a cause of action for actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief against a health care provider for violations. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB667
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Bans the militia of the state from being called forth for an armed conflict or war unless the U.S. Congress declares war or a purpose under the U.S. Constitution. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits the Governor from ordering out for service the militia of the state for participation in or support of an armed conflict or the conduct of war unless the United States Congress passes a declaration of war or calls forth the militia of the state to execute the laws of the United States, suppress an insurrection or repel an invasion.