Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB22
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells DCBS to study affordable health care and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB220
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a salmon nursery program. The Act tells the agency to report on the program. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon. Directs the department to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026, regarding the establishment and operation of the program. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for program purposes. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB221
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/7/25
Report Pass
5/21/25
Enrolled
5/27/25
The Act directs ODFW to support certain fish rearing projects. The Act starts when signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.4). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs, and to report on the programs to the Legislative Assembly. Sunsets January 2, 2040. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB222
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
The Act tells ODFW to monitor smallmouth bass in certain rivers and to support programs to get rid of smallmouth bass in certain rivers. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). [Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program to protect salmon. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).] [Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate a program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.] Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers. Appropriates moneys to the department to carry out the purposes of the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB223
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
The Act directs the OBDD to make and give plaques to schools. The plaques honor Senator Peter Courtney's support of funding seismic safety for schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). [Digest: The Act directs ODE to design and give plaques to schools that have benefited from Senator Peter Courtney's support of funding seismic safety for schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.1).] Directs the [Department of Education] Oregon Business Development Department to [design] create and distribute memorial plaques to schools in honor of Senator Peter Courtney's contributions in supporting seismic rehabilitation funding. Directs recipients to display plaques [at the front entrance] in a location that is easily visible to visitors to the school. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB224
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/8/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
The Act keeps the SOS from posting the address of those persons who are linked to a political committee on the SOS website. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). [Digest: The Act keeps the SOS from posting the address of those persons who are linked to a campaign committee on the secretary's website. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).] Prohibits the Secretary of State from publishing the residence address of certain individuals who are affiliated with a [candidate's principal campaign] political committee on the electronic filing system maintained by the secretary.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB225
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Refer
6/5/25
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in federal retirement pay or pension that is received for service in the Armed Forces by a person who is 63 years of age or older. 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: 60.6). [Digest: 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 federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving federal 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 Senate Bill SB226
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act removes the law that stops a county from making a justice of the peace district that includes parts of some cities. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB227
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to labor and business not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB228
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/15/25
Enrolled
5/19/25
Passed
5/28/25
The Act creates a right to form family councils at certain long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Establishes the right of a resident of a residential care facility to [the formation of a] organize and participate in resident groups, including an independent family council. Prohibits a residential care facility from willfully interfering with the formation, maintenance or promotion of [a] an independent family council or discriminating or retaliating against a resident based on [a family member's or representative's participation in a family council] the participation of the resident or the resident's family member or legal representative in an independent family council. [Imposes civil penalties, not to exceed $500 per day of violation.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB229
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/3/25
Refer
4/3/25
The Act tells OHCS to give funds to Bridge Meadows to grow its multigenerational housing model in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified purposes. Directs the department to oversee the use of funds. Directs the department to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing annually for five consecutive years. Sunsets January 2, 2031.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB23
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB230
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
The Act makes changes to the Veterans Dental Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to require oral health care providers to complete an intake screening with an enrollee of the Veterans Dental Program within [15] 60 days after the enrollee initiates contact with the provider. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB231
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act gives money to HECC to give to a group to improve campus resilience. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the [Oregon Campus Resilience Consortium] University of Oregon's Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments for the purpose of implementing emergency response, continuity and recovery initiatives at post-secondary educational institutions in this state. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB232
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the superintendent of OSP to make a section to help drug endangered children. The Act tells the superintendent of OSP to hire a director of the section. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish a division for the purpose of identifying and implementing ways to better serve and protect drug endangered children. Directs the superintendent to appoint a director of the division.