All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3012
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act lets someone who is 16 or 17 years old and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Permits an individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast a ballot in school district elections.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3013
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act gives a process for revoking a permit based on an overturned land use plan or regulation. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Details the process by which a permit or zone change that is based on provisions of a comprehensive plan or land use regulation that fail to gain acknowledgment is voided and any resulting improvements or uses are removed or revoked.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3014
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Makes more money available from grants for school districts and ESDs to use for school facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the School District Facility Equity Fund. Directs the Office of School Facilities to award grants from the fund for the facility needs of school districts and education service districts. Prescribes the requirements for the grants. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in the fund. Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene the school facilities advisory group for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations for sustainable funding sources for the fund. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3015
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Bans certain items from being added to food and beverages sold in schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Prohibits certain food and beverage items sold to students in public schools from including Red Number 3, potassium bromate or propylparaben. Takes effect on July 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3016
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the EQC to give rebates to people that replace gas lawn and garden tools with electric lawn and garden tools. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a program to provide rebate vouchers for the replacement of combustion lawn and garden equipment with zero-emission lawn and garden equipment. Establishes the Lawn and Garden Equipment Rebate Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3017
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would tell OHA to study the risks to human health of chemicals in some products. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the risks to human health of chemicals in menstrual, intimate care and incontinence products. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public health no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3018
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
This Act makes new laws to prevent and dispose of food waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.9). Requires entities that cook, assemble, process, serve or sell food to recover and dispose of food waste as specified in the Act. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a program to educate entities on food waste separation and disposal requirements. Requires local governments responsible for solid waste management to provide collection service to entities covered under the Act. Requires state agencies to prioritize a specified compost feedstock when procuring compost. Modifies food date labeling laws to require foods packaged with a date label to use uniform terms. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3019
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the OMB to look at giving licenses to doctors and PAs who trained outside the USA. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2). Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3020
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
The Act makes betting on dog races illegal. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Prohibits wagering on dog races. Modifies animal racing law to remove references to greyhound racing. Becomes operative July 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3021
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
The Act would make changes to the laws of the unemployment and paid leave programs run by the Employment Department. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Makes changes to statutes related to unemployment insurance law and paid family and medical leave insurance law. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3022
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
The Act would allow sharing of information by state agencies for the paid leave program. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Authorizes the Department of Revenue to disclose information to the Employment Department for purposes of administering the paid family and medical leave insurance program. Makes provisions requiring reports required to be filed by employers with the Department of Revenue consistent across agency programs. Removes the requirement that the Department of Revenue must determine contribution payment methods by rule. Authorizes the Division of Child Support of the Department of Justice to release reporting information on newly hired employees to the Employment Department. Includes a program eligibility determination in purposes for which a county supervisory authority must submit defendant information to the Director of the Employment Department. Applies to information disclosed and reports required on or after January 1, 2023. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3023
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Certain horse racing companies pay a fee to the ORC. Currently, a portion of the fee goes to the General Fund. The Act removes the requirement to transfer money to the General Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.4). Removes requirement that the Oregon Racing Commission transfer certain fees related to Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs to the General Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3024
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The Act would get rid of the cut in maximum benefits when a worker is barred from benefits due to not working for cause and has not earned four times weekly benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Eliminates the reduction of an individual's maximum benefit amount by eight times the individual's weekly benefit amount after the individual is disqualified from the receipt of benefits for cause and has not earned at least four times the individual's weekly benefit amount. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3025
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Tells the HECC to give money to certain students to help with college costs. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Removes the shared responsibility model by which a qualified student, the student's family, the federal government and the state share the cost of education for the student. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to qualified students to assist with the students' cost of education. Establishes the bases for the commission's determination of grant amounts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3026
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/14/25
Engrossed
4/22/25
Refer
4/22/25
The Act makes changes to the education laws of this state. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). [Digest: Tells the HECC to study higher learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).] [Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.] Modifies eligibility requirements for a scholarship program for teacher candidates. Authorizes the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to procure or supervise the procurement of certain goods, services, personal services and information technology. Establishes an exception to the requirement that all subcommittees of the Transfer Council consist of equal numbers of faculty from public universities and community colleges. Exempts from public meetings laws meetings of certain subcommittees of the council. Directs the commission, in consultation with community colleges and public universities, to study reporting requirements affecting public institutions of higher education and the commission and to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than November 15, 2026. Extends the reporting deadline for a forestry workforce study to December 31, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.