All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2862
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would create a loan program to support small businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Program to be administered by the Oregon Business Development Department for the purpose of making interest-only loans to allow businesses with not more than 50 employees to hire new employees. Requires the payment of principal plus penalty for failure to hire and retain employees for at least two years. Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Fund for the purpose of administering the loan program. Appropriates moneys to the department for the purpose of administering the loan program and loan fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2863
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act exempts gain on the sale of certain property in a low-income census tract from tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows a subtraction from federal taxable income of the gain from the sale of opportunity zone property, defined as property in a low-income census tract developed for affordable housing and held for a stated period of time. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2864
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management 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 HB2865
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives money to certain state agencies. The Act states that the money may be spent for certain purposes related to fire protection, OrSAP and ODEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2866
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes changes to laws about collective bargaining with respect to public employees who are not members of a union. The Act would change how those employees will make payments to the union. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Permits employees who are not union members to voluntarily consent to make in-lieu-of-dues payment to a labor organization for the organization's representation of the nonmember employees in employment relations with a public employer. Prohibits compulsory payments to labor organizations by nonmember employees. Makes entering into an agreement that requires the nonmember employees of a labor organization to make payments to the labor organization an unfair labor practice.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2867
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 HB2868
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says a court has to look at, when the court determines aggravation, if a person did the crime in an emergency when the court sentences the person. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs a court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of a criminal sentence, evidence that the defendant committed the crime during an emergency, an evacuation while an emergency was in effect or within one year after an emergency ceases, provided that the emergency is related to a natural disaster and the defendant took advantage of circumstances related to the emergency, evacuation or recovery from the emergency. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to include in the rules concerning sentencing departure factors the commission of a crime under such circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2869
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires a school district to keep money paid for a public contract for services until the contract is complete. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires school districts to withhold retainage when entering into a public contract to provide services required by state or federal law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2870
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a panel of eight people to look into false campaign comments. Creates penalties for someone who makes false campaign comments. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Creates the Oregon Campaign Review Commission to investigate complaints of false statements made by candidates or political committees. Establishes sanctions for violations of false statement law. Applies to campaigns conducted for elections held on or after January 1, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2871
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells a business that gets over 20 percent of its receipts from public contracts to list amount with tax return. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Requires businesses receiving more than 20 percent of gross receipts from public contracts to include a statement of the amount received with a tax return filed with the Department of Revenue. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2872
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires proof that workers in building trades have licenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires that a building permit must show a contractor's Construction Contractors Board license number if the contractor is known. Requires an inspector performing building code inspection as part of a building inspection program, or for the purpose of enforcing a municipal ordinance, to require that persons engaged in regulated building activity present evidence of compliance with applicable licensing, registration or certification requirements. Requires that a municipality ensure that a person issued a permit for work requiring a Construction Contractors Board license holds a Construction Contractors Board license. Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to inform the Construction Contractors Board when the director has reason to believe that a person is engaging, has engaged or plans to engage in a violation of laws regarding licensing and endorsement of construction contractors.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2873
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the HECC to create an Oregon work study pilot program. Ends the program on January 2, 2029. Tells the HECC to study college students' access to basic needs. Tells the HECC to submit a report on the findings of the study. Declares an emergency and becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish an Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2029. Directs the commission to conduct a study on post-secondary students' access to basic necessities and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2874
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. It limits the preference to those who apply within ten years of leaving the U.S. Armed Forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). 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. Limits eligibility for preference to a veteran who applies for a position within 10 years of discharge or release from service in the Armed Forces of the United States. 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 to not 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 HB2875
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Authorizes school districts to have maker spaces. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Authorizes district school boards to take specified actions to facilitate the creation and use of maker spaces.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2876
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make all counties have a nonpartisan board of commissioners unless voters in the county choose not to do so. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Provides that the governing body of a county shall be a nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by the people of the county unless county voters choose not to do so. Requires a county to provide by ordinance or resolution for the structure of the board, the board districts, if any, the election procedures and compensation for the commissioners if the county voters have not chosen to exempt the county from the provisions. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.