Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1178
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
Requires 10 percent of the power sold in this state by a power company to be made by certain power plants. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires 10 percent of the electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1179
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
The Act changes sentencing for people who are survivors of domestic abuse. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence that the defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a contributing factor in the criminal behavior. Provides that such evidence constitutes substantial and compelling reasons justifying a downward departure sentence. Authorizes the court to impose a lesser sentence even if there is a mandatory minimum sentence or a sentence otherwise required by law. Creates a procedure by which a person currently serving a sentence may petition the court for resentencing if the person was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when the criminal behavior occurred and was a contributing factor in the criminal behavior. Establishes the Task Force on Services and Support for Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB118
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would extend the property tax break for multiunit rental housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Extends the sunset date for the property tax exemption for multiunit rental housing. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1180
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
Refer
5/27/25
Refer
5/27/25
The Act tells LPRO to give the legislature a list of each IM petition that may be on the next general election ballot. The Act provides for a process for the legislature to hold hearings on those petitions. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). [Digest: The Act tells the SOS to give the legislature a list of each IM petition that may be on the next general election ballot. The Act provides for a process for the legislature to hold public hearings on those petitions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7).] Requires the [Secretary of State] Legislative Policy and Research Director to submit to the Legislative Assembly, by [November] December 1 of each odd-numbered year, a list of each prospective statewide initiative petition that has been filed for the next general election. Requires the submission to include the text, ballot title and total number of signatures gathered for each prospective petition. [Requires the secretary to provide updates during the first week of December, January and February.] Permits legislative leadership to request impartial analyses and summaries [by nonpartisan legislative staff] for each prospective petition provided by the [secretary] director. [Requires nonpartisan legislative staff to provide legislative leadership with impartial analyses of the policy, fiscal and revenue impacts and legality for each prospective petition as requested by legislative leadership.] [Requires legislative leadership to use the analyses from nonpartisan staff to determine whether the state would benefit from holding public hearings on one or more prospective petitions during the even-year session.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1181
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
4/15/25
Engrossed
4/17/25
Refer
4/23/25
This Act makes rules about how Medicare supplement policies work and when they can be offered. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Prohibits the increased cost or denial of a Medicare supplement insurance policy due to a preexisting condition and establishes open enrollment standards for Medicare supplement policies.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1182
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Engrossed
6/2/25
Refer
6/3/25
Report Pass
6/4/25
This Act lets ODOT lease or sell extra land from the I-5 Rose Quarter Project to a charity. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). [Digest: This Act lets ODOT give, lease or sell extra land from the I-5 Rose Quarter Project to a charity. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).] Allows the Department of Transportation to [gift,] lease or sell surplus real property of the Interstate 5 Rose Quarter Project to Albina Vision Trust, Inc. Sunsets on January 2, [2030] 2040.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1183
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
The Act gives money to the State Fire Marshal for distribution to the Central Douglas Fire & Rescue for a certain program. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Appropriates moneys to the State Fire Marshal out of the General Fund for distribution to the Central Douglas Fire & Rescue for an apprenticeship program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1184
Introduced
2/27/25
Refer
3/3/25
The Act gives money to the legislature to pay for a year-round assistant for each member. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Legislative Assembly to support a year-round legislative assistant position for each member of the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1185
Introduced
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
The Act tells DOJ to have a lawyer and an investigator for requests for immigrant status. The Act tells state agencies to send requests to the lawyer. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Department of Justice to dedicate an attorney and an investigator for issues related to federal requests for information about immigrant status. Directs state agencies to forward requests to the attorney.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1186
Introduced
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
The Act changes the laws about the use of drones by law enforcement. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Modifies provisions relating to the use of unmanned aircraft systems by law enforcement agencies.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1187
Introduced
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
This Act creates a program to recover the costs of climate change. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program as an interagency response to the effects of climate change. Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to serve as the lead agency of an interagency team. Requires the department to conduct an assessment on the costs of greenhouse gas emissions. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to issue cost recovery demand notices to entities determined to be responsible for the costs of climate change. Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program Account. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1188
Introduced
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
The Act tells the OPGC to make grants to help people who are leaving a hospital obtain guardianship services. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to establish a grant program to increase the availability of community-based guardianship programs and county public guardian and conservators for people with complex health care needs who are experiencing hospital discharge difficulties. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman for deposit into the Community Guardianship Grant Fund to administer the grant program. Directs the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to persons experiencing hospital discharge delays and who have friends or family who are willing to act as a guardian but who lack the financial resources available to initiate protective proceedings. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman for deposit into the Friends and Family Guardianship Grant Fund to administer the grant program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1189
Introduced
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
Refer
4/10/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/23/25
Passed
5/5/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
This Act says that a treatment works can be built without a water quality permit if certain conditions are met. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Creates a limited exception to water quality permitting requirements for a treatment works located within the North Santiam Basin. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB119
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would create a property tax credit for the home of a person who is on active military duty. The Act would phase out the current partial exemption for such homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Provides for a property tax credit against the ad valorem taxes imposed on the homestead of a resident serving on active military duty. Phases out the current partial exemption for such homesteads. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB1190
Introduced
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act makes new laws with respect to mandatory overtime shifts for some workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Permits employees of residential training homes to refuse to work an additional mandatory overtime shift scheduled by the employer when the employee has already worked a mandatory overtime shift in the same month. Prohibits residential training home employers from requiring an employee to take unpaid leave or use paid time off to make up for refusing to work the additional overtime shift, or from taking any adverse employment action against the employee.