All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3252
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act makes new laws for how administrative rules apply to farmworker labor housing. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation. Prohibits the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services from retroactively enforcing the rules with respect to certain agricultural housing unless there exists an immediate hazard to the health and safety of agricultural workers occupying the housing. Prohibits the director from adopting rules that require the relocation, modification or demolition of certain agricultural labor housing to comply with certain rules adopted on or after the effective date of this Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3253
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
This Act changes how counties review the siting of a telecom tower. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Establishes review criteria for telecommunications towers to be applied by counties. Requires existing telecommunications towers to comply with criteria by January 1, 2032.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3254
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Tells ODVA to report on the amount of federal moneys the state receives for each dollar the state spends for veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to report the amount of federal moneys the state receives for each dollar the state spends on outreach and programming for veterans and the amount of federal moneys received by service members and veterans in this state not later than December 1 of each year.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3255
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Says that an online business must have a telephone number and electronic mail address to hear and respond to customer concerns. Lets the Secretary of State check to see if the business obeys the requirement and to fine a business that does not obey. Says that the business can be barred from this state if it fails to comply again and again. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the online business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response. Permits the Secretary of State to test compliance with the Act and to impose civil penalties for a failure to comply or to administratively dissolve an online business or revoke the online business's authority to transact business in this state if the Secretary of State determines that the failure to comply is intentional, willful and repeated.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3256
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
This Act says that vehicles that are eight years old or newer do not need a certified pollution control system. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Exempts motor vehicles with model years that predate by eight years or less the date of registration or renewal of registration from the requirement to be equipped with a certified pollution control system.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3257
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other certifications held by members of military families. The Act makes OMD submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans and emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3258
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells the OBDD to study economic development in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to conduct a study of economic development in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3259
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
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 on January 2, 2045.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3260
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells ODEM to give grants to make facilities more resilient. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and maintain a grant program to harden community facilities against man-made and natural disasters. Establishes the Community Facility Hardening Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3261
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
This Act creates the Task Force on Renewable Diesel and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Establishes the Task Force on Renewable Diesel. Directs the task force to study the availability of renewable diesel, estimate current and future demand for diesel fuels, study incentives for increasing the availability of renewable diesel and study the implications of removing petroleum diesel from the state marketplace. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3262
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Creates a fund that three state agencies may use to help protect from, recover from and restore property damaged by wildfires. Specifies what the agencies may use the moneys in the fund to do. Tells the State Fire Marshal to send some of the money to a fund that makes grants to rural fire protection districts. Tells insurers to pay a fee to a state agency for each property insurance policy the insurer issues in this state. Lets insurers get the money they pay back from policy holders. Tells the state agency to put the money from the fee into the fund that the other three state agencies use. Sets a filing fee for property taxes and sets aside part of the fee for the wildfire protection fund. Sunsets the Act on July 1, 2033. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Establishes the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs the State Fire Marshal, the State Forestry Department and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from the fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and recovery from wildfires. Requires the State Fire Marshal to reserve and transfer to a revolving fund a certain percentage of moneys from the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund for grants to rural fire protection districts. Requires an insurer each year to remit to Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a surcharge for each policy of insurance that is property insurance. Permits an insurer each year to recoup from insureds the amount the insurer remitted to the director. Requires the director to deposit the proceeds of the surcharge into the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Imposes a filing fee for property taxes and requires remission of the proceeds of the fee, less a specified percentage for administrative costs, to the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Sunsets July 1, 2033.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3263
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells an agency to create a specific area in which trees must be replanted. The Act creates a task force. The Act ends the task force a while later and creates an advisory board. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.2). 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, 2035. 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 HB3264
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells DPSST to look at fire service professional training standards and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study fire service professional training standards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3265
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3266
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act would tell DAS to study community water systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study community water systems. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water no later than September 15, 2026.