All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2877
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the construction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials industries. Permits the department to use moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to develop, implement and maintain the pilot programs. Requires a report to the Legislative Assembly regarding the status of the pilot programs by September 15, 2026. Sunsets pilot programs on December 31, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2878
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a program for sequestering carbon. The Act allows the State Treasurer to issue certain bonds for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under Article XI-E of the Oregon Constitution in an amount that produces $500 million in net proceeds for a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program. Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2879
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a task force to study how a major seismic event will affect children and to prepare to meet the needs of children after such an event. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Task Force on Seismic Event Preparation. Directs the task force to conduct a study regarding the impacts of a major seismic event on children and to identify methods for preparing schools and communities to meet the needs of children following a major seismic event. Directs the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets task force on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2880
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows an agency to give grants to some cities for public transit projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to certain small cities for the purposes of studying, developing and capitalizing public transit systems. Appropriates moneys to the department for the grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2881
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that the Governor has to interview at least one person who is part of a minority group when naming a person to the Port of Portland board. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Governor to interview at least one candidate from an underserved racial, ethnic or minority population when making an appointment to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2882
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the ACLB to start a program and give grants to appraisers who are licensed or certified. The new law ends after two years. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Directs the Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to establish a program to award grants to state certified appraisers and state licensed appraisers to whom the board issues a certificate or license on or after January 1, 2026. Directs the board to issue temporary certificates and licenses to engage in real estate appraisal activity. Sunsets on January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2883
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act makes DLCD report on limiting tech towers' impact on views. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to conduct a study on methods to mitigate the impact of technology support structures on the aesthetics of certain areas. Requires the department to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use by September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2884
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to annually assess the effects of rules about hatchery fish that return to hatcheries. The Act tells the agency to report on what the agency learns. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to annually assess the effects of provisions related to the disposition of hatchery-produced fish carcasses and report the results to committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2885
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to make an electronic system to manage emergency volunteers in this state. The Act puts ODEM in charge of maintaining the system. The Act tells ODEM to start a workgroup about volunteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement the creation of an interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency. Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer and maintain the system, conduct outreach and training regarding the system, coordinate a workgroup for periodic review of the system and coordinate a workgroup to develop recommendations regarding statewide volunteerism. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop policies and procedures to incorporate the system into the activities and duties of the OregonServes Commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2886
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would require a study of the costs of operations that are saved by small businesses that share resources. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the cost savings and expense reductions that may result from cooperative resource sharing by small businesses. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2887
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a specific carbon sink as an area. The Act creates a task force related to the area. The Act sunsets the task force. The Act creates an advisory board related to the area. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2037. Establishes the Task Force on the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Establishes the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink Advisory Board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2888
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2889
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes clear the meaning of "provide consultative services" for purposes of the OSEA. The Act tells DCBS to give incentives to small employers who use certain services to get help with following the laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Clarifies the meaning of "provide consultative services" to require the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to provide incentive to small employers to participate in consultative services, to provide maximum allowable protection from fines and penalties to small employers that participate in consultative services and to promote consultative services to the small business community.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2890
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows the OIC to give grants for economic development in rural areas of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic development in rural areas of this state. Authorizes the council to provide monetary awards to the winners of contests that are designed to attract invention, innovative and entrepreneurial solutions and opportunities in rural areas of this state. Establishes the Oregon Fund for Rural Small Business Development. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the council to implement the grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2891
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act limits the number of records that a higher learning school may keep on a teaching employee. The Act allows a teaching employee to respond to the contents of a record. The Act allows a higher learning school to use only allowed files. The Act allows a teaching employee to sue the higher learning school for not following the law about records. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.9). Restricts the number of personnel records concerning faculty members that a community college may maintain. Provides that a faculty member may respond to information in a personnel record. Prohibits a community college or public university from basing an evaluation of a faculty member on information from personnel records other than authorized personnel records. Permits a faculty member to bring an action for damages or other equitable relief against a public university community college or individuals who participate in an evaluation in violation of the prohibition. Becomes operative January 1, 2027.