All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2817
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/24/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The Act removes permit closure of forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Eliminates the closure of forestland, due to fire danger, by permit closure.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2818
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to study potential changes to one of its programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the coordinated care organization quality incentive program administered by the authority. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2819
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act relates to fire protection. The Act allows citations on certain bases. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). Authorizes [persons who enforce fire protection laws] the State Forester or a person authorized by the State Forester to issue citations if there are reasonable grounds to believe violations have occurred.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2820
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a public agency not to take an offer for a public contract from a not-for-profit company if the person who earns the most money at the company earns more than 50 times as much as the person who earns the least money. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1. Requires a contracting agency to disclose the prohibition in an advertisement or solicitation for the public contract and provide in the public contract that a failure to comply subjects the covered entity to a termination of the public contract and debarment or disqualification, as appropriate. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2821
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires the heads of businesses that receive at least $10 million in public funds over five years to file an SEI. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires directors and senior executives of businesses that receive $10 million or more in public moneys over a five-year period to file a statement of economic interest.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2822
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study certain effects on wolf populations. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to submit a report on the effects on Oregon wolf populations of changes in certain protections for the gray wolf during the last 10 years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2823
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency that it can hire a lawyer to help with getting a patent for any invention someone makes while working or being a student at a public high school. Lets the agency share in or say it will not share in the ownership of the patent. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while employed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state. Permits the department to assume, assign, partake in or disclaim ownership of any patent that results from an invention under the terms of a contract or other agreement into which the department enters with faculty or staff, with students who have legal capacity to enter into contracts or with the legal guardians of students without legal capacity to enter into contracts and in accordance with rules the department adopts and other applicable law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2824
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires CCO drug outlets to give certain veterans a 7-day supply of a drug at no cost if the veteran cannot get the drug from the VA. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense a seven-day supply of a prescription drug to a veteran with a disability, at no cost to the veteran, if the veteran is unable to obtain the prescription drug through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2825
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act updates the laws about how public employers should give priority to veterans when hiring for jobs. If they choose not to hire a veteran, they have to write down their reasons in certain situations. If a veteran or disabled veteran thinks they were treated unfairly, they must first try to solve the problem with BOLI before they can take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position. Requires evidence of eligibility and disability to be provided at the time of application. Sets forth processes for granting one or more preferences. Allows a public employer to exercise discretion not to appoint a qualified veteran or disabled veteran to a civil service position based solely on the veteran's or disabled veteran's merits or qualification in the final stage of the selection process. Requires a public employer to provide written reasons for not appointing a veteran or disabled veteran to a position under certain circumstances. Requires an aggrieved veteran or disabled veteran to exhaust nonjudicial remedies with the Bureau of Labor and Industries before filing a civil action for an unlawful employment practice.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2826
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Directs ODVA to create a grant program to provide funding to counties for veterans' courts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2827
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that the Governor may require persons to make, sell or supply goods if needed for an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Governor, if necessitated by an emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for the manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods. Specifies conditions under which a person may reject such orders. Provides that a person that accepts an order is not liable for contractual damages resulting from an act or omission necessary for compliance with the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2828
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells colleges to give 12 credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires public post-secondary institutions to grant 12 academic credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2829
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes ODVA do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2830
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes rules for local governments about things used for water projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Prohibits a local government, local contracting agency or local contract review board from enacting, adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule or other law that prohibits, restricts or limits the evaluation, comparison or use of pipe or piping materials for a water project if the pipe or piping materials meet current standards or performance specifications of specified organizations and if moneys appropriated from the State Treasury directly or indirectly provided funding for the water project. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2831
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and make a report to DPSST. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.