Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3970
Introduced
5/7/25
Refer
5/14/25
The Act tells DHS and HCSD to work on recommendations for funding to meet the needs of youth in homelessness. The Act changes the list of people who can get some funding for homelessness. The Act establishes grant programs for youth in homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4). Directs the Department of Human Services and the Housing and Community Services Department to collaborate on recommendations for funding to meet the needs of youth experiencing homelessness. Modifies the list of persons who may receive services and assistance funded by the Emergency Housing Account. Establishes grant programs for youth experiencing homelessness. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3971
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
This Act requires counties in the valley to approve a land use application for a landfill. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires counties to approve a land use application to develop a mixed-waste facility on certain lands in the Willamette Valley. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3972
Introduced
5/14/25
Refer
5/21/25
This Act gives some counties powers over solid waste and lets counties make an agreement to manage solid waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Authorizes Benton County, Linn County and Polk County, in addition to Marion County, to take specified actions with respect to solid waste and solid waste sites or facilities. Authorizes Benton County, Linn County, Marion County and Polk County to enter into an intergovernmental agreement for the joint management of solid waste.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3973
Introduced
5/15/25
Refer
5/21/25
This Act removes paint from a recycling law. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Removes the requirement that architectural paint be collected by a stewardship organization to be excluded from the definition of "covered product" under the packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware producer responsibility law. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3974
Introduced
5/19/25
Refer
5/21/25
This Act caps screening fees paid by residential tenants. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Limits the applicant screening charge a residential landlord may collect to $20. Extends certain screening requirements to include landlords who do not collect an applicant screening charge. Allows landlords to alternatively accept third-party screening reports provided by an applicant.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3975
Introduced
5/20/25
Refer
5/21/25
The Act makes a new tax credit for new banks. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state. Applies to banks that commence business in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3976
Introduced
5/21/25
Refer
5/28/25
This Act makes a new exemption from public record disclosure for some data that is collected by OLCC. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Adds an exemption from public record disclosures for data and electronic records collected by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission regarding the sale of items other than distilled liquor.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3977
Introduced
5/22/25
Refer
5/28/25
The Act gets rid of the vehicle inspection program and creates a fee to pay for transportation projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Repeals the motor vehicle pollution control system inspection program, contingent upon the approval of revisions to the federal Clean Air Act state implementation plan by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Establishes the Transportation Infrastructure and Congestion Reduction Fee. Directs the Department of Transportation to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation on current and potential future uses of the fee. Establishes the Transportation Infrastructure and Congestion Reduction Account in the State Highway Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3978
Introduced
5/27/25
Refer
5/28/25
The Act concerns lab research on dogs, cats and primates that are not human. The Act creates a task force to stop research on primates that are not human. The Act takes effect when it is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 91.4). Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories. Prohibits a person from conducting research or testing on nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Establishes the Task Force on Planning the Elimination of Research on Nonhuman Primates. Directs the task force to draft a plan for eliminating the breeding of, and research on, nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Exempts the task force from public meetings law requirements. Sunsets the task force in 2041.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3979
Introduced
5/29/25
Refer
6/5/25
The Act would make changes to PECBA. The Act would prohibit public employees from engaging in strikes to resolve labor disputes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Prohibits strikes by public employees. Requires that labor issues in dispute be submitted to final and binding arbitration.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3980
Introduced
6/2/25
Refer
6/3/25
The Act would make it so that municipalities are able to get loans and grants for levee projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3981
Introduced
6/4/25
Refer
6/11/25
This Act delays responsible end market laws for one year. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets. Prohibits, before July 1, 2026, the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring that a recycling processing facility take certain actions with respect to responsible end markets. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3982
Introduced
6/9/25
The Act changes laws about money for roads. The Act says that diesel will be taxed in the same way that gas is taxed now. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Redirects revenues from the bicycle excise tax, tax on wages and vehicle privilege tax to the State Highway Fund. Directs the Department of Transportation to use redirected funds for specific purposes related to highways. Creates the Trucking Overpayment Credit Account. Directs the department to provide refunds to taxpayers who overpaid weight-mile taxes. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to decrease either the weight-mile tax or the motor vehicle fuel taxes if the highway cost allocation study indicates that a vehicle class is paying more than its fair share for the use of the highways in the state and the Legislative Assembly does not enact a measure to correct the imbalance within 120 days of the Joint Committee on Transportation receiving a report on the study. Revises the formula for weight-mile taxes. Provides for diesel fuel to be taxed in the same manner as gasoline. Modifies the definition of "combined weight" for purposes of motor carrier regulation. Allows the Department of Transportation to use a motor carrier's registration card as the tax enrollment document instead of the vehicle's weight identifier. Eliminates reinstatement fees for weight identifiers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3983
Introduced
6/9/25
The Act directs the court to enter an order prohibiting gun possession by a person charged with some drug possession crimes. The Act also requires that deflection programs restrict the possession of guns by people in the program. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.9). Directs the court to enter an order, at the first appearance on a charge of misdemeanor unlawful possession of a controlled substance, prohibiting the charged person from possessing a firearm. Specifies a process for surrendering firearms and the return of firearms. Specifies the circumstances when the court must terminate the order. Provides that possession of a firearm by the prohibited person is punishable by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Requires that deflection programs, including those receiving grant funding, require participants to transfer all firearms to a law enforcement agency, a gun dealer or a third party until the program is completed. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3984
Makes the PUC do a study on wildfires and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Public Utility Commission to study wildfires. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.