All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2697
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act repeals the limit on traffic stops for some lighting offenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Repeals the limitation on police officers initiating traffic stops for certain offenses related to vehicle lighting.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2698
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/3/25
This Act establishes a goal for home owning in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to track goal progress [as part of the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis]. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2699
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act directs HECC to study nurse teacher pay. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation in this state. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2700
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to make a registry of people who can help with emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to create and maintain a registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response. Requires that the registry be accessible to emergency management agencies and emergency program managers. Directs the department to establish procedures for communicating with appropriate entities to gather and update registry information.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2701
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that some health and public safety places have to be prepared for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at a 25 percent mortality rate. Defines "25 percent mortality rate." Directs the Oregon Health Authority and health professional regulatory boards to report to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Directs the department to report annually to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency preparedness. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2702
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates a fund for ODEM to give funds to local governments when needed to get federal aid or for disaster grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund. Provides that moneys in the fund may be used by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue grants to local governments to make matching contributions necessary to access federal aid or to assist or support disaster response efforts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2703
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a new personal income tax to fund resiliency. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Imposes a surtax on income tax liability. Transfers the proceeds of the income tax surtax to the Resiliency Grant Fund. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2704
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the state to try to find out the last address of persons who are confined in custody and to use that address to create some voting districts in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.8). Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to the adult in custody, and to submit the information to the Secretary of State. Directs the secretary to adjust the population data reported in the federal decennial census to reflect the residence status of adults in custody before incarceration. Requires the Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, to reapportion the state into legislative districts based on the adjusted population data. Requires the use of the adjusted population data to apportion county or municipal boundaries.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2705
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the HECC to study how much money the state should get for each patent a college gets after receiving public money. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with public universities and community colleges, to conduct a study to determine the appropriate rate of return the State of Oregon should receive for each patent obtained as a result of public moneys provided to a public university or community college. Requires the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2706
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODOT to give car dealers at least two days' notice before going to see the dealer's records. The Act makes some exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). Directs the Department of Transportation to provide two days' notice to vehicle dealers and dismantlers before inspecting records unless the department is responding to a complaint.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2707
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes new rules about fire safety testing in public buildings. Sets penalties. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the owner of a public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in the public building. Specifies qualifications for inspectors. Requires an inspector to issue a certificate of compliance if the public building complies with the applicable standards or to issue a deficiency report if the public building does not comply. Specifies a time period within which the public building owner must return the public building to compliance. Punishes violation of the Act with a civil penalty equivalent to five cents for each square foot of occupied space in the public building. Authorizes additional civil penalties for a continuing failure to comply. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2708
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make new laws for workforce development. The Act would transfer workforce development duties from HECC to BOLI. The Act would make a new workforce development program and office at BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Transfers duties, functions and powers related to administering the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and workforce development matters from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Establishes the Office of Workforce Development within the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Establishes the Office of Workforce Development Account. Creates the Oregon Workforce Corps to provide workforce development and employment opportunities. Renames the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development to the Office of Community Colleges. Renames the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development Account to the Office of Community Colleges Account. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2709
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Says a person may not get a fee from a resident to cover the resident's car with an extended warranty if the person knows that the car does not qualify for the warranty. Tells the person to ask for enough information to decide whether the car qualifies. Says that the person must cover the car even if it doesn't qualify if the person takes a fee from the resident. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Prohibits a warrantor from accepting a fee from a resident for an extended warranty unless the warrantor knows that the resident's motor vehicle qualifies for coverage under the extended warranty. Requires the warrantor to request and obtain information needed to assess whether the motor vehicle qualifies for coverage. Requires a warrantor to provide coverage under an extended warranty for a motor vehicle that does not qualify for coverage if the warrantor accepted a fee to provide the extended warranty. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2710
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act makes it so that the victims of child abduction are on the list of those that are able to join the Address Confidentiality Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of child abduction. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2711
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would pay UI benefits to gig workers when an emergency is declared in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Provides a worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during a state of emergency declared by the Governor to unemployed independent contractors on terms similar to the terms under which employees receive regular benefits. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.