Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2247
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards. Directs the department 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 HB2248
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
The Act makes new laws with respect to BOLI. The Act takes effect 91 days after adjournment sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.4). [Digest: The Act tells BOLI to study matters related to the laws that BOLI enforces. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5).] [Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to laws over which the bureau has enforcement authority. 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.] Establishes the Employer Assistance Division within the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Provides that discussion communications made in the course of or in connection with a discussion between an employer and the Employer Assistance Division are confidential. Provides exceptions to the confidentiality requirement. Prohibits the bureau from imposing a penalty on an employer that proves the employer's reliance on discussion communications in taking any good faith action. Permits the bureau to issue advisory opinions in certain circumstances. Permits the bureau to enter into interagency agreements with state agencies to receive certain business information. Permits the bureau to enter into a settlement with respect to any violation of a provision of law over which the bureau has jurisdiction. Provides that the bureau may settle a matter through conference, mediation, conciliation, persuasion or other alternative dispute resolution processes. Establishes confidentiality requirements for communications made during the course of or in connection with settlement discussions held through the bureau's alternative dispute resolution processes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2249
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
The Act makes a task force about health care on-the-job training and career pathways. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). [Digest: The Act makes BOLI study and report on matters relating to on-the-job training programs in this state. Tells BOLI to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0).] [Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct a study of matters relating to apprenticeship programs in this state. Directs the bureau to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026.] Establishes the Task Force on Health Care Apprenticeships and Career Pathways. Requires the task force to identify challenges in navigating the requirements for licensure, accreditation and apprenticeships for health care providers. Requires the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2250
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would have the state use the last known address of adults in custody, if available, to create some voting districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center. Directs the center to adjust the population data reported in the federal decennial census to reflect the residence status of adults in custody before incarceration. Requires the Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, to reapportion the state into legislative districts based on the adjusted population data. Requires use of the adjusted population data to apportion county or municipal boundaries.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2251
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/10/25
Engrossed
4/16/25
Refer
4/21/25
Requires school districts to have a policy that does not allow students to use cell phones and similar devices. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2252
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer. Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2253
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This act makes it a condition of licensing that PBMs need to act in a patient's best interest and tells DCBS to make rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires pharmacy benefit managers to act as fiduciaries to enrollees when negotiating drug prices and tells the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules explaining the fiduciary duty requirements and to establish a complaint process for reporting breaches of fiduciary duty.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2254
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes laws about unpaid wages for workers who work on construction projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier. Provides the statute of limitations for actions regarding recovery for unpaid and overtime wages. Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2255
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule. Directs courts to exercise doubt in favor of an interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2256
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
4/29/25
Enrolled
5/5/25
Passed
5/12/25
This Act limits risk from selling unlawful units of land to protect nature. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Exempts the seller and [the nonprofit purchaser of] a nonprofit, public body or tribe that purchases property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling certain units of land not lawfully established. Cancels exception for a purchaser who resells the land to the private market within five years of the land being deeded for conservation purposes.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2257
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act gives money to OBDD to give grants to cities for infrastructure projects that will contribute to building more homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to specified cities to build infrastructure that will contribute to the development of housing under the program established by a 2024 Act. Extends sunsets for the program and for cities' reports on the program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2258
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/11/25
This Act lets LCDC and DCBS preapprove housing plans. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). [Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).] [Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.] Authorizes the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules requiring local governments to approve certain land use applications for residential developments using building plans preapproved by the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Requires adoption of initial rules by January 1, 2027. Authorizes the Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop a process to preapprove residential building plans. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2259
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2260
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2261
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act requires the OHCS to study homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.