All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2847
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a new tax subtraction for start-up expenditures. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Creates a subtraction from taxable income for start-up expenditures. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2848
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells not for profit companies that get public money to obey open meetings and public records laws. Tells the companies that they must post a copy of the budget they expect to adopt on their websites. Tells the companies that they must agree to and cooperate with audits. Says that the company's directors, officers and employees must comply with government ethics standards. Takes effect on passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation's proposed annual budget to the corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit. Subjects members of a corporation's board of directors and officers and employees of a corporation to government ethics standards. Applies the provisions of the Act to corporations over a 15-year period, with required compliance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the corporation that comes from public funds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2849
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells DPSST to look at issues facing law enforcement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2850
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires each member of the legislature to file a form with the OGEC. The Act requires that the form contain the name and salary of each of the member's relatives or members of the household who serve on the member's personal staff. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires a member of the Legislative Assembly who has a relative or a member of the household who receives a salary for serving on the member's personal legislative staff to file a statement with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission naming each relative or member of the household and stating the amount of the salary each relative or member of the household receives for serving on the member's personal legislative staff.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2851
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes a definition for two crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies the definition of "critical infrastructure" to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism in the first degree and domestic terrorism in the second degree.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2852
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to try to contract with bidders who agree to help with emergency readiness. The Act tells ODEM to start a program to certify such bidders. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Directs contracting agencies to give preference to a bidder or proposer who is certified by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management as an emergency preparedness partner. Directs the department to establish a program for certification of business organizations as emergency preparedness partners. Provides that organizations shall be certified if a minimum number of individuals in the organization complete the required training and meet other requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2853
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act replaces an old industrial siting program with a new program that allows for UGB growth. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses. Sunsets January 2, 2037. Sunsets 2011 program under which the Economic Recovery Review Council designated regionally significant industrial areas.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2854
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to make changes to the state building code that say which design features school facilities must have in a seismic zone. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt amendments to the state building code that mandate certain design features for new school facilities in a designated seismic hazard region. Specifies the design features. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2855
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the DSP to create a public exchange area. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of State Police to establish public exchange locations with certain requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2856
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells ODVA to give grants to offset costs that groups incur but did not expect to incur in repurposing buildings for veteran housing. Creates a fund with lottery moneys to fund the grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to offset unexpected increases in costs in repurposing buildings for veteran housing and housing programs. Establishes the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund. Directs the State Treasury to transfer, each biennium, moneys from the Veterans' Department of Veterans' Affairs Dedicated Lottery Fund to the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund to be used by the department to provide the grants.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2857
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a program in ODEM to give subsidies to some air ambulance bases to help them pay for their costs of operation. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Establishes an air ambulance readiness program in the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to provide subsidies to qualified air ambulance bases to offset the costs of operating air ambulances and air ambulance services. Requires the department to biennially report on the program to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2858
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices relating to statewide coordination of emergency management. [Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facilities and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for investments to improve statewide emergency preparedness.] Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to make grants for public safety projects. Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training. [Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Directs the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management operations.] Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans. Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county's emergency preparedness. Delays the date on which responsibility for management of the emergency notification system is transferred to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2859
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells ODVA and the Governor to ask for funds for ODVA at a certain level and tells the legislature to fund ODVA at that level. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request a certain level of funding. Requires the Governor's budget to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Requires the Legislative Assembly to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Provides that the requirements do not apply under certain negative economic conditions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2860
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department 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 HB2861
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department 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.