All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB735
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/11/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/16/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Does not apply short school day program standards to a student in a public charter school when certain conditions are met. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Provides that abbreviated school day program requirements do not apply to students in public charter schools if certain conditions are met. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB736
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act excludes a child's parents from some laws about abuse of a child in care and requires DHS to give a parent notice of rights before meetings in child abuse matters. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Creates an exception to abuse of a child in care provisions when the suspected abuse was committed by the parent of the child in care. Requires that the Department of Human Services provide parents and guardians with a notice of rights before interviews in child abuse investigations.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB737
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act gives more neighbors notice of middle housing land divisions and adds content to the notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Expands the radius for giving notices of proposed middle housing land division and requires additional content in the notices. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB738
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
The Act makes changes to the requirements for foster children to get a tuition waiver. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition waivers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB739
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act changes oversight laws for certain types of long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation. Prohibits exceptions to statutory licensing requirements for residential care facilities. [Requires an administrator of a new residential care facility to retain a consultant with experience in providing residential care. Requires the Department of Human Services to conduct regular inspections of new residential care facilities. Requires residential care facilities to notify the department of an administrator absence or change. Prohibits a person from serving as an interim residential care facility administrator without a license. Prohibits issuing a memory care endorsement unless an applicant has at least two years' experience operating a licensed residential care facility or long term care facility.] Requires a residential care facility to notify a resident's designated contact person of a substantiated licensing violation or abuse finding or of the facility's placement in the enhanced oversight and supervision program. Requires an applicant for a license to operate a residential care facility, if the applicant does not have experience in the operation or management of a residential care facility, to contract with an experienced consultant or management company. Adds new requirements for obtaining a license to operate a residential facility or an adult foster home. Requires the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to inspect residential facilities and adult foster homes under certain conditions. Permits the department to extend the duration of an adult foster home license to two years if the department determines that the home has been in substantial compliance for three consecutive years.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB74
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/16/25
Engrossed
4/22/25
Refer
4/23/25
This Act makes changes to how DSL can find the state's interest in waterways that are navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: This Act tells the DSL to study how to determine that a waterway is navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).] [Requires the Department of State Lands to study determinations of navigability on Oregon waterways. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Authorizes the Department of State Lands to find in a navigability determination draft report that the state's interest in the waterway extends to the current submerged and submersible lands within the waterway. Authorizes the department to negotiate with property owners affected by the finding and convey mineral and geothermal resource rights in a negotiated exchange of deeds. Requires the department to determine the state's interest in portions of the waterway according to principles of accretion and avulsion if the department is unable to reach an agreement with affected property owners.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB740
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act directs DHS to set up a grant program for people who had certain resources seized while in the care or custody of DHS. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Directs the Department of Human Services to establish and administer the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and used to pay for certain services provided. Sunsets the grant program on later of the date the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund is depleted or January 2, 2055. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB741
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/18/25
Engrossed
4/24/25
Refer
4/24/25
The Act tells DHS to make a report about payment to people who run foster homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to adopt a compensation rate structure for foster parents. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] [Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt a rate structure for foster parent compensation.] Directs the Department of Human Services to report each even-numbered year to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means about compensation to individuals who maintain a foster home or to child caring agencies that authorize proctor foster homes. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB742
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/8/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Allows a parent or foster parent to agree to have a meeting by phone or online to discuss placing a student on a short school day program. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Allows a student's parent or foster parent to consent to attending an initial meeting regarding an abbreviated school day program placement by telephone or other electronic means. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB743
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires that some interviews with a person who may have abused a child must be electronically recorded. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Requires the Department of Human Services or a law enforcement agency to electronically record certain interviews in child abuse investigations.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB744
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a person asking the probate court to do a thing to try to find and give notice to certain people. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Requires the petitioner in an intestate estate to make a reasonable effort to find persons of a higher priority of appointment before the court may appoint a personal representative.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB745
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/8/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Allows the parent or foster parent of a student who is very ill to request to meet no more than once a year to review the student's short school day program. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows the parent or foster parent of a terminally ill student to consent to meeting once every year to review the student's abbreviated school day program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB746
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells DOJ to make a yearly report on the use of outside counsel to defend state agencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Directs the Department of Justice to report annually to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means and the committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary on the use of outside counsel to defend state agencies in lawsuits. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB747
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells certain persons to report the use of fertilizer on farmland. The Act allows agencies to take certain actions about the reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigated land used for agriculture to annually report information about fertilizer application to the State Department of Agriculture. Authorizes the department and the Department of Environmental Quality to take certain actions related to the information. Directs the State Department of Agriculture to report on the information to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to agriculture on or before September 15 of each odd-numbered year. Authorizes the imposition of civil penalties for a violation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB748
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would allow drug testing for an initial claim for unemployment in certain cases. The Act would make the Employment Department pay for the tests, not the claimant. The Act would disqualify a claimant who fails a drug test until the claimant requalifies and passes another drug test. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Authorizes the Employment Department to require drug testing for an initial claim for unemployment benefits if the claimant was fired by the claimant's most recent employer for unlawful drug use or suitable work is available for the claimant only in an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing. Provides that the cost of the tests must be paid by the department and not by the claimant. Disqualifies a claimant who fails a drug test from benefits until the claimant requalifies and passes another drug test.