Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB328
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act prohibits animal shelters from killing dogs or cats due to a lack of space. The Act makes an exception for dogs or cats with fatal illnesses or severe injuries. The Act requires certain related reporting. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.9). Prohibits an animal shelter from destroying a dog or cat on the basis of a lack of space for housing the dog or cat. Provides an exception if an animal has a terminal illness or severe injury. Instructs animal shelters to annually report on the destruction of animals. Instructs the State Department of Agriculture to annually report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to animals on the destruction of animals by animal shelters.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB329
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells a cooperative and retail stores to expand the use of reusable cans or bottles. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires a distributor cooperative to implement a managed system for reusable beverage containers that achieves certain sales and return rates. Requires certain beverage container dealers to provide shelf space for reusable beverage containers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB33
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act directs DHS to study how it provides services to children and families. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Department of Human Services to study how it delivers services to children and families. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB330
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Directs the PUC to adopt standards to require that power lines be placed underground. Provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt standards requiring the underground placement of electric power lines. Provides for exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB331
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells ODFW to treat some hatchery and natural fish stocks as a single population. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB332
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a project to use game fish carcasses. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop a game fish carcass recovery project.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB333
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would let owners of land form a district in order to pay the costs to the county of staving off damage to their land caused by predators, by both nonlethal and lethal means. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals. Defines "prevent, reduce and mitigate damage to property from predatory animals" to include both nonlethal and lethal methods of prevention, reduction and mitigation. Establishes presumptive charges of $2 per acre for tax lots of 10 or more acres and a $50 flat rate charge for tax lots of less than 10 acres. Creates a cause of action under the district program for counties, landowners, districts and cities involved in the program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB334
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the DCBS to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB335
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products. Directs the department to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB336
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives moneys to an agency for a certain grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture, out of the General Fund, for the purpose of developing a grant program to fund the construction of meat rendering plants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB337
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act permits counties to allow smaller farm or forest parcels. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows counties to authorize the subdivision of land zoned for exclusive farm use or forest use into parcels no smaller than the average size of the county's lots and parcels of the same type.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB338
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the Gov. to tell a U.S. official that a marine sanctuary in this state will not be accepted unless the legislature signs off on it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires the Governor to certify to the United States Secretary of Commerce that the designation of a national marine sanctuary located within the seaward boundary of Oregon is unacceptable unless the Legislative Assembly confirms the designation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB339
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
The Act gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death. The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB34
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act makes changes to laws about the persons that own and operate long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0).] Requires the Department of Human Services to study [long term care] the information that a long term care facility must disclose about its owners and operators and the feasibility of implementing an online portal to collect and share information about long term care facilities with the public. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than [September 15, 2026] December 31, 2025. Sunsets the study requirements on January 2, 2027. Requires a long term care facility, before the facility may change its owner or operator, to apply to the department for approval and provide notice to residents. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB340
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells an insurer in some cases not to raise the price of a policy of fire insurance by more than three percent each year or cancel the policy. The cases are if the policy holder lives near wild land or works at farming, logging, mining or similar work. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Prohibits an insurer from canceling fire insurance policies, or raising policy premiums by more than three percent, if an insured's property is located within the wildland-urban interface or the insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction. Specifies exceptions. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine by rule how to measure employment or economic or business activity for the purposes of qualifying for limitations on cancellations and policy increases. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.