Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB355
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
The Act tells an agency to create a pilot grant program to promote the use of air curtains to manage wildfire risk. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.3). Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a pilot grant program to manage wildfire risk by promoting the use of air curtains by persons that make biochar. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for funding the grant program. Sunsets the grant program on June 30, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB356
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives money to the Invasive Species Council. The Act describes how the money must be used. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.2). Appropriates moneys to the Invasive Species Council, out of the General Fund, for certain purposes. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB357
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB358
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would use some moneys raised by an existing tax to support state recreation areas on the Oregon coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Establishes the Ocean Beach Fund. Directs that the moneys received from the state transient lodging tax in an amount equal to one percent of the tax collected at state recreation areas along the ocean shore be transferred to the fund. Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to spend moneys from the fund for expenses of managing state recreation areas along the ocean shore. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB359
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act says that any person can file a complaint for the DEQ to take action if homeless persons are putting waste into state waters. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Authorizes any person to submit a complaint to the Department of Environmental Quality if the person reasonably believes that a camping site of homeless individuals is causing the discharge of wastes into state waters. Directs the department to remove individuals from the camping site and clean the camping site as necessary to protect state waters. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB36
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells DCBS to study patient billing and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study patient billing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB360
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/10/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
This Act allows some workers to apply pesticides without a license if they use a device that runs on a battery. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB361
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
5/1/25
Refer
5/1/25
The Act gives money to OBDD to give to ports for dredging projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.5). [Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give to ports for dredging projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.5).] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the [Oregon Department of Administrative Services] Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to specified ports to carry out dredging projects. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB362
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0). Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB363
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act extends a grant program for places that process and sell meat products. The Act ends the grant program on January 2, 2028. The Act gives money for the grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.0). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture to fund a grant program related to establishments that process and sell meat products. Extends the grant program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB364
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB365
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the Attorney General to help someone whose wine grapes were hurt by wildfire smoke. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Directs the Attorney General to assist a person in recovering damages from the federal government when smoke from a wildfire on federal lands causes damages to the person's wine grape growing.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB366
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would allow eggs to be sold to a restaurant without an egg handler's license. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Authorizes a producer of eggs to sell and deliver the producer's eggs to a restaurant without an egg handler's license.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB367
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act stops the state from closing businesses when a state officer declares an emergency. The Act starts when the Act is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7). Prohibits the Governor or a state officer or agency from requiring a lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during a declared state of emergency or a declared state of public health emergency. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB368
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Limits how long a state of emergency may last. Allows for 30-day periods to be added to extend the state of emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Limits a declaration of a state of emergency to 30 days' duration, unless extended by the Legislative Assembly for an additional 30 days. Permits the Legislative Assembly to extend a state of emergency for an unlimited amount of times, but limits the duration of each extension to 30 days. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.