All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB909
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act expands services for children with complex needs. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). [Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide flexible and innovative home and community-based services and supports through the medical assistance program to children and youth that have a serious emotional disturbance.] Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to disregard parental income when determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance if the child has a physical disability or chronic illness that requires a hospital or nursing home level of care [or the child meets the level of care criteria for admission to a facility providing psychiatric services to individuals under 21 years of age. Directs the authority or the department to notify the parents of a child found eligible for medical assistance based on a disregard of parental income that the disregard constitutes parental consent for an education provider to be notified that the child receives medical assistance and to bill for the cost of school-based health services]. Directs the authority to prescribe the level of care criteria for admission to a facility providing psychiatric services to individuals under 21 years of age. Provides that individuals who meet those criteria are eligible for medical assistance. Directs the authority to seek any necessary federal approval. Becomes operative on the date that notice of federal approval is received. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB91
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/10/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
This Act stops fire departments from using PFAS firefighting foam. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). [Digest: This Act prohibits the sale, use and disposal in certain places of firefighting foam with PFAS in it. The Act tells the EQC to ensure the safe collection and disposal of firefighting foam with PFAS in it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8).] [Prohibits the sale and use of firefighting foam containing perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Prohibits the disposal of firefighting foam containing PFAS at certain facilities. Provides that prohibitions become operative on January 1, 2026.] [Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a program to ensure the safe collection and disposal of firefighting foam containing PFAS.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Prohibits fire departments from using firefighting foam containing perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Becomes operative on July 1, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB910
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Makes students and school coaches learn about and respond to cardiac events. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prescribes requirements for sharing information, training and guidelines for student athletes related to symptoms of a cardiac event.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB911
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act directs DHS to adopt a method of payment for foster child transition supports. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt a methodology for payments made to providers of independent living transition services provided to foster children. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB912
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
The Act sets out certain duties owed to children and clarifies when failure to meet those duties is abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Prescribes duties to protect children and provide for children's basic needs. Describes when chronic or extreme neglect constitutes abuse of a child.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB913
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act removes the law that stops a county from making a justice of the peace district that includes parts of some cities. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB914
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
3/7/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
The Act requires billboards for the state lottery to have a phone number for problem gambling help. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires that certain billboards related to the state lottery include information about a problem gambling helpline.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB915
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act tells DHS that a certain DHS program must handle child abuse reports involving certain children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Director of Human Services to ensure that standards and procedures for the assessment and investigation of reports of child abuse committed by certain persons are investigated by a department program that specializes in training, investigations and safety. Applies to assessments and investigations pending or commenced on or after July 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB916
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Refer
3/27/25
The Act would repeal the law that denies UI benefits to a person who is unemployed due to an active labor dispute. The Act would make it so that striking workers have an extra unpaid week before they qualify for benefits. The Act would require benefits to be paid back if they are overpaid due to the worker’s later receipt of back pay. The Act would make a school district deduct from future wages benefits received by an employee during a labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). [Digest: The Act would repeal the law that denies benefits to a person who is unemployed due to an active labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).] Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual’s unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual’s place of employment. Provides that individuals unemployed due to a strike are disqualified for benefits for one week before eligibility begins, with the usual unpaid waiting week. Provides for the collection of benefits overpaid during a strike due to the later receipt of back pay. Requires a school district to deduct from an employee’s future wages benefits received during a labor dispute.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB917
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
The Act says that marijuana items and stores have to warn people that the use of marijuana by a person who is pregnant might cause danger. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires a marijuana retailer and a medical marijuana dispensary to post warning signs regarding the consumption or use of marijuana during pregnancy. Requires marijuana items and inhalant delivery systems that contain an industrial-hemp derived vapor item to include in labeling that consumption or use of marijuana during pregnancy may be dangerous.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB918
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires health classes to cover from conception to birth. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB919
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires a student to meet standards in reading, writing and math before getting a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires a student to demonstrate proficiency in specified Essential Learning Skills prior to the student being awarded a high school diploma or a modified diploma. Applies to diplomas awarded on or after January 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB92
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Allows a project to partake in the community solar program that is five megawatts or less. Allows a project and its subscribers to be in different service areas of the state. Sets a cap on the total capacity of the program and raises the cap over time. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Allows a community solar project with a nameplate capacity of five megawatts or less to participate in the community solar program. Allows a community solar project and its subscribers to be located in different electric company service territories. Establishes, beginning in 2026, an initial cap on the total generating capacity of the community solar projects participating in the program at no less than 4.5 percent of an electric company's system peak in the calendar year 2016. Increases the cap by an additional 2 percent each year up to 14.5 percent beginning in 2031 and each subsequent year. Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt a schedule establishing penalties that may be imposed on an electric company for unreasonably delaying the interconnection process for a community solar project.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB920
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act tells the OSU Extension Service to oversee a project to improve mental health and SUD services in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB921
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
This Act says that an agency may loan money to a port for shipyard repairs. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). [Digest: This Act requires OBDD to study shipyards. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).] [Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study needed investments in shipyards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Authorizes the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority to approve a loan to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay for shipyard repairs. Allocates moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund for the purpose of making the loan.