Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB422
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells DHS to create a pilot program to find solutions to better serve people with IDDs. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Directs the Department of Human Services to implement a pilot stabilization program to reduce disruptions in placement and identify long-term solutions to better serve individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including individuals who experience co-occurring diagnoses. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB423
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes BOLI study issues about penalties for violating certain laws that require certain places to accept cash as payment for goods and services. The Act tells BOLI to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to penalties for violating requirements to accept cash as currency in places of public accommodation. 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB424
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
The Act gives money to OHA to pay for an electronic filing system. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for an electronic filing system related to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB425
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Says that a merchant cannot charge a fee to use a credit card or debit card if the merchant does not accept cash. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Prohibits a merchant from charging or collecting a fee for a person's use of a credit card or debit card in payment for goods or services if the merchant does not accept payment for the goods or services in cash.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB426
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/28/25
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 wages. Specifies that the joint and several liability provisions for unpaid wages do not apply to construction work relating to real property that is used as the owner's principal residence or real property with five or fewer residential or commercial units on a single tract. Clarifies that the Attorney General may accept the assignment of claims and bring civil actions in the name of the State of Oregon on such claims. Permits the Attorney General to adopt rules regarding the assignment of claims. Requires notice to be sent by certified mail that informs the owner and the direct contractor of the alleged violation and specifies the time period within which the owner and the direct contractor may correct the alleged violation. Creates a rebuttable presumption that, in any action for unpaid wages, the person performing labor on a construction project is an employee. Provides that the party claiming otherwise may rebut the presumption by establishing that the person qualifies as an independent contractor. Provides that an owner may bring an action against a direct contractor to recover damages for amounts paid by the owner. Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Provides that subcontractors shall provide certain payroll records to an authorized third party representative in certain circumstances. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances. Clarifies that the owner or direct contractor may withhold payment in an amount and to the extent that the owner or direct contractor paid, on behalf of the subcontractor, wages owed to the subcontractor's employees.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB427
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act prohibits certain changes related to water that will reduce the flow of streams. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits certain proposed changes related to the appropriation or use of water that will result in the diminishment of streamflow.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB428
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act limits risk from selling unlawful units of land to protect nature. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Exempts seller and nonprofit purchaser of property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling units of land not lawfully established.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB429
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires gun dealers to wait 72 hours from the time of asking for a background check, and to have the approval number from the check, before giving a firearm or certain unfinished firearm parts to a buyer. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Prohibits a gun dealer from transferring a firearm or unfinished frame or receiver until 72 hours have elapsed from the time the gun dealer requested a criminal background check, and the gun dealer has received the background check approval number from the Department of State Police. Provides that a gun dealer who has the approval number and allows the required time period to elapse before transfer has immunity from civil liability for use of the transferred firearm or unfinished frame or receiver by the purchaser. Takes effect on the 91st day following sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB43
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act requires the DEQ to study waste management. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study waste management. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB430
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/18/25
Engrossed
4/22/25
Refer
4/24/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
Says that a person may not show or offer a price for goods or services online that does not include all of the fees and charges that a buyer must pay. Says that taxes and fees to ship the goods or provide the services do not need to be shown. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.9). Prohibits a person that offers or sells goods or services online [to a resident of this state] from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the goods or services that does not include all fees or charges that a purchaser must pay to complete a transaction for the goods or services, other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction, [or] reasonable charges that the person actually incurs to ship the goods or provide the services or a service fee that is calculated according to distance or a purchaser's selections. Specifies exemptions. Punishes a violation of the Act as a unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB431
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the SOS to look at state offices and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.8). Requires the Secretary of State to study state offices and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB432
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act concerns fires that start on federal lands. The Act tells the forester and certain entities to take actions to address this type of fire. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Instructs the forester, or a forest protective association or agency that is under contract or agreement with the State Board of Forestry for the protection of forestland against fire, and whose protection area is or may be affected by a fire on nearby federal lands, to take certain actions to address the fire.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB433
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/14/25
Enrolled
5/19/25
Passed
5/28/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Raises to $1,000 the point at which a storage unit owner must put out an ad to sell property that is subject to a lien for unpaid rent. Lets the owner get rid of property worth less than that amount in any way the owner sees fit. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.9). [Digest: Lets a person that runs a storage place sell items that are under a lien after putting a notice of the sale online. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.4).] [Permits the owner of a self-service storage facility to advertise or publish a notice of sale of personal property that is subject to a lien once on a publicly accessible website that regularly advertises or offers personal property for auction or sale.] Changes from $300 to $1,000 the threshold value above which an owner of a self-service storage facility must publish a notice of sale for personal property that is subject to a lien for unpaid rent, labor, materials or other services related to storing the personal property.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB434
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 SB435
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act requires DLCD to study the HAPO. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the Housing Accountability and Production Office and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.