All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3237
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support PSAP consolidation and upgrades. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets January 2, 2045.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3238
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes EIS do a study on the security of cyber assets and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the office of Enterprise Information Services to study cybersecurity. Directs the office to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to information management and technology not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3239
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
The Act gives funds to DHS, OHA and OSP to do programs about criminal records checks. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). [Digest: The Act gives funds to DHS and OSP to do programs about criminal records checks. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).] Appropriates moneys to and limits expenditures by the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of State Police for implementation of programs related to criminal records checks, including the Rap Back program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3240
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to develop staging areas for emergency response in the state. The Act sets up a committee to give advice to ODEM about the staging areas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Establishes the Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for the implementation of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates an advisory committee within the department to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from the fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3241
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows some events on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3242
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
This Act tells a health insurer to pay a health care provider in the same way it would pay if they were in-network during a certain time and in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3243
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
Tells ambulance service providers not to balance bill some patients and makes them report local rates to DCBS. Makes some rules about health insurance for ambulance services. Tells DCBS to make a new database of local rates and allows for penalties. Tells DCBS to submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). [Digest: Tells ambulance service providers not to balance bill some patients and makes them report local rates to DCBS. Makes some rules about health insurance for ambulance services. Tells DCBS to make a new database of local rates and allows for penalties. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9).] Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan [coverage] reimbursement of ambulance services. Requires ground ambulance services to submit established local rates to the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Establishes a database of local rates for ambulance services and allows for penalties to be imposed for violations. Requires the department to submit a report on the implementation of this Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3244
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act changes how air pollution is tested at a place that burns solid waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.5). Replaces the requirement that an owner or operator of a municipal solid waste incinerator conduct continuous monitoring or sampling of specified air contaminants with a requirement that the monitoring or sampling be conducted annually. Modifies the time for submission and implementation of a monitoring or sampling plan. Provides that the Department of Environmental Quality may modify the plan. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3245
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act tells OHA to study how to calculate a CCO's global budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to create a method for calculating a CCO's global budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] Directs the Oregon Health Authority to [develop] study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3246
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would require a report on the plan to be turned in next year. The Act would appropriate funds to be used for technical aid for up to six symbiosis pilot programs. The Act would let certain county service districts fund water resource services with charges for services, works or commodities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would have the agency submit a report on the plan next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).] Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon. Requires the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to fund technical assistance for up to six industrial symbiosis pilot communities in Oregon. Authorizes certain county service districts to fund water resource management services with charges for district services, facilities or commodities. [Sunsets on January 2, 2028.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3247
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Makes a power company have a new power source that meets certain standards before the company can close a power plant. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable electricity prior to retiring an electric power generating facility that provides reliable or dispatchable electricity. Requires the Public Utility Commission to seek a waiver to, or if unable to obtain a waiver, seek an injunction against, any federal regulations or requirements that impose increasing costs to the maintenance or operation of an electric power generating facility such that an electric company seeks to retire the electric power generating facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3248
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act places limits and duties on health care providers who perform abortions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency. Defines "abortion" and "health care provider." Prohibits the abortion of an unborn child with a probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks, except in the case of a medical emergency, rape or incest. Requires that an abortion of an unborn child with probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks be performed or induced in specified facilities and with specific safeguards in place. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care provider for violations. Requires a health care provider who performs or induces, or attempts to perform or induce, an abortion to file a report with the Oregon Health Authority. Requires the authority to publish annually statistics relating to abortion. Allows specified persons to bring a cause of action for actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief against a health care provider for violations. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3249
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act would grant a partial tax exemption for the home of a senior or the senior's surviving spouse. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Allows a partial exemption of ad valorem property taxes due on the owner-occupied principal dwelling of an individual who is at least 65 years of age and the individual's surviving spouse regardless of age. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3250
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act says that persons who invest PERS moneys may not consider factors that do not relate to financial risk or return. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Prohibits the Oregon Investment Council, the State Treasurer and managers from considering nonfinancial factors when directing or managing the investment of the Public Employees Retirement Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3251
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act is about leasing state land for cell phone towers in rural areas. The Act says that the lease rate in Clatsop County and Tillamook County must be $1,500 per year. The Act says that about 10 years in the future, the rate must be consistent with the rate for leasing federal forest land for the same purpose. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.8). Directs the State Board of Forestry to allow the lease of land in Clatsop County and Tillamook County that is owned or managed by the board for telecommunications towers at the rate of $1,500 per year. Provides that on and after January 2, 2036, the rate shall change to a rate consistent with the rate for leasing land in federal forests for the same purpose. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.