All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2712
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/11/25
The Act gives judges more pay. The Act says that the Chief Justice can take actions and make rules to promote accountability of judges and make justice services fair and accessible. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). [Digest: The Act says that OJD can do audits of circuit courts. The Act tells OJD to look at the role of supervised visitation specialists and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).] [Provides that the Judicial Department may implement an audit schedule for the circuit courts.] [Requires the department to study the role of supervised visitation specialists used for custody casework. Directs the department to submit findings to the committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than March 1, 2026.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Increases the salaries of state court judges. Provides that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has authority to take actions and establish rules that promote judicial accountability and fair and accessible justice services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2713
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act imposes new income taxes and takes revenues that would go the Rainy Day Fund, to help the state plan for disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Imposes a surtax on personal income tax liability. Imposes an Oregon personal alternative minimum tax. Establishes the Resiliency Requirements Fund. Establishes the Shaky Day Fund. Directs the proceeds of the income tax surtax and the alternative minimum tax to be used for funding resiliency. Modifies the formula for transfer of a percentage of the General Fund ending balance to include a transfer to the Shaky Day Fund, in addition to the transfer to the Rainy Day Fund. First applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and to biennia beginning on or after July 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2714
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the State Treasurer to create a program to offer loans to small businesses that cannot operate at their usual levels during an emergency. Sets out how a business will qualify for a loan. Allows bonds to fund the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Directs the State Treasurer to develop and implement a small business support loan program that aids in supporting the economic activities of small businesses during times in which small businesses cannot conduct business activities at an ordinary or customary level because of a statewide or regional emergency or other significant disruption of business activity. Specifies the structure and funding for the program and describes features that the program must include. Specifies eligibility for small business support loans. Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue bonds to fund the program. Establishes the Small Business Support Loan Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2715
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Allows for all public higher learning schools to offer PhDs that are approved by the HECC. Limits certain public higher learning schools to five PhD programs until 2044. Blocks public money to be used for aid to students at certain higher learning schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Authorizes all public universities in Oregon to offer doctoral degrees, subject to approval by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Limits certain public universities to five doctoral programs until 2044. Prohibits the commission or any other state agency from using public moneys to award scholarships, grants or other types of student financial aid to post-secondary institutions of education that offer coursework primarily online and have been found to have engaged in fraudulent or predatory practices against students or prospective students.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2716
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODOT to tell car dealers if ODOT finds missing or incomplete papers or fees when the dealer tries to register or title a car. ODOT must also give the dealer a chance to fix the problem. The Act also tells ODOT to study how long it takes to process the papers and fees from car dealers. By September 15, 2027, the department must share the study results and ideas for improvement with the ODAC. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Directs the Department of Transportation to notify vehicle dealers when the department discovers documentation, information or fees the vehicle dealer submitted to register or title a vehicle are missing, incomplete or miscalculated. Directs the department to take certain actions to allow a vehicle dealer to rectify the missing documentation, information or fees. Directs the department to undertake a study to assess delays in processing documentation and fees submitted by vehicle dealers. Provides that the department report the results of the study and recommendations to the Oregon Dealer Advisory Committee no later than September 15, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2717
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that the state may issue bonds for a veterans' home in Roseburg. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution for construction of a veterans' home in Roseburg. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2718
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows car dealers to turn in paperwork to the DMV in person. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Allows vehicle dealers to submit vehicle-related documents in person at a field office of the Department of Transportation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2719
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates a program to provide money for higher learning students. The Act requires students to repay the program for receiving money. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the Office of Student Access and Completion to administer the program. Requires the State Workforce and Talent Development Board to monitor the program every two years and make recommendations to the Legislative Assembly on whether modifications are necessary to enhance the state's workforce. Establishes that the program becomes operative on January 1, 2045. Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program Implementation Fund. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, on the effective date of the Act, to begin the process of developing the policy and rules necessary to implement the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the commission to submit a report regarding the progress on the development of policy and rules to committees related to public finance and higher education during the 2026 and 2027 regular sessions of the Legislative Assembly. Establishes the Task Force on Implementing the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the task force to determine the amount of moneys the program will need to raise through bonding, determine which current grant and scholarship programs should be repealed on the operative date of the Guaranteed Opportunity Program and analyze the methods for preventing bad faith participation of participants in the program. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2720
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2721
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would allow a city or county to impose a public transit surcharge on top of any parking fine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes a city or county to impose a public transit incentive surcharge on the amount of any fine for violation of the city's or county's motor vehicle parking code.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2722
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says ODOT must work with others to help with some of ODOT's responsibilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with any qualified provider to assist the department with certain functions of the department.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2723
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODHS to require certain health care facilities to have backup power sources. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring licensed long term care facilities, outpatient renal dialysis facilities and residential facilities to acquire and maintain backup power sources to be used during power outages.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2724
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells companies that each year they must send to the state tax agency a notice stating the company registered, or tried to register, for the draft. The company must file the notice when the company files a tax return. Lets the company file the notice within three years after filing the tax return. Tells the state tax agency not to allow subtractions or credits if the company does not file the notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). Requires every corporation to annually file an affidavit with the Department of Revenue attesting that the corporation has registered or attempted to register with the United States Selective Service System. Directs the department to disallow all state corporate excise or income tax subtractions and credits claimed by the corporation if the corporation fails to file an affidavit with the corporation's tax return. Allows the corporation to comply with the law by filing an affidavit within three years after filing a return.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2725
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
The Act would limit the kind of port district that must be a party to a contract in the strategic investment program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Limits the kind of port districts that are required to be involved in strategic investment program agreements with respect to eligible projects that are located in the port district's territory. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2726
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
The Act would let lottery bonds be sold to fund flood safety projects on certain parts of the Columbia. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds to fund Columbia corridor flood safety projects in Multnomah County.