All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3297
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells BOLI to study issues related to employment in this state. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in this state. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3298
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Directs ODE to study the state of education in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3299
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act would allow for the creation of a bridge district in the area around Salem. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Authorizes the formation of a bridge district in the capital city region, consisting of Benton, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties. Authorizes the bridge district to levy property taxes for the purpose of planning, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining bridges over the Willamette River in the capital city region. Provides for the organization of a district board consisting of five members, one elected from each of the four counties in the capital city region and one elected from the district at large. Sunsets on January 2, 2030. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3300
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act creates a task force on desalination and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Establishes the Task Force on Desalination. Directs the task force to study the creation of a statewide desalination program. Requires the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to water no later than December 15, 2026. 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 HB3301
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells ODOT to study ways to make roads strong against future challenges. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving ground transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3302
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Creates a public company to take and securely hold cash from people who do business in cash. Tells the company what its powers and functions are. Creates a fund the public company can use to carry out its functions. Tells the Secretary of State to audit the public company each year. Tells the Attorney General to defend the public company against actions brought against the company as it carries out its functions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Establishes the Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as an independent public corporation and prescribes the corporation's purposes and powers. Directs the corporation to lease or acquire real property and construct or renovate offices, facilities and business locations throughout the state at which the corporation receives, handles, stores and dispenses cash and other valuable property. Establishes the Oregon Cash Depository Corporation Fund in the State Treasury and requires the corporation to deposit all moneys the corporation receives into the fund. Permits the corporation to invest the moneys in the fund and a fraction of the corporation's deposits in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Subjects the corporation to an annual audit by the Secretary of State and requires the corporation to respond to the recommendations in the audit report. Requires a study of the corporation's operations every four years and a report to the Legislative Assembly. Requires the Attorney General to defend the corporation and the directors, officers and employees of the corporation against a claim or charge brought for actions in performing the duties of the corporation. Becomes operative January 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3303
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act would require a study of how the state can help lower infrastructure and housing costs. The Act would require the agency doing the study to submit a report to the legislature by mid-September. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon. Requires the department to submit a report of the findings of the study to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3304
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells OEBB to look at benefits for education workers and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to study the adequacy of benefits offered to education workers. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3305
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
This Act creates a state desalination agency and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Oregon Desalination Authority. Directs the authority to study the development and maintenance of desalination facilities in this state. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3306
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 received by a person 62 years of age or younger as retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces. The Act applies to tax years that start on or after January 1, 2025. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who has not attained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year for which a return is filed. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3307
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support and expand certain volunteer programs in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program, in consultation with the OregonServes Commission, to support and expand community volunteer programs related to emergency management in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3308
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply. The Act also says that governments must use renewable diesel fuel. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031. Requires all state and local government facilities to use renewable diesel for all diesel fuel requirements beginning in 2028.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3309
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act creates an account to help public bodies respond to emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Establishes the Oregon Public Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Disaster Response Fund. Continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for funding to state agencies, local governments, special government bodies, federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations for specified emergency response activities.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3310
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
The Act creates an agency to encourage certain acts related to ensuring there is food throughout this state. The Act tells the agency to create a related grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Establishes the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission. Requires the commission to develop and administer a grant program to provide grants for increasing the amount, availability and security of regional foodstuff supplies.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3311
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/24/25
Removes the limit on the types of degrees that certain higher learning schools may offer. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Removes the limitation on the types of degrees that may be offered by Western Oregon University, Southern Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University.