Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Engrossed
4/14/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Enrolled
5/8/25
Passed
5/19/25
This Act adds two members to the Building Codes Structures Board. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). [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.] Adds two members to the Building Codes Structures Board and adds two professions that the board members must represent.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB490
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Raises the exempt amount and the filing threshold for the CAT. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB491
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes police notify ICE if a person is arrested for some drug crimes. The Act also limits pretrial release for those persons. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs an arresting officer to notify federal immigration authorities when a person is arrested for delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance. Limits pretrial release for persons arrested for delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB492
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a division in OSP to deal with marijuana grows that are illegal. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Establishes a division in the Department of State Police to enforce laws related to illegal marijuana cultivation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB493
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says an EMR and an EMT can draw up and give doses of a drug to stop an opioid overdose. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7). Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB494
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
The Act tells DAS to look at forestry and fire jobs and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.0). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study classification and compensation for forestry and wildland fire positions in state government. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources and wildfire not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB495
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act repeals rent increase limits near the coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Exempts residential tenancies within 25 miles of the coastline from maximum limits on rent increases.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB496
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act repeals rent increase limits. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Repeals limits on the increases to residential rent that a landlord may charge.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB497
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a city or county that it may not adopt a standard from the Reach Code or any other code that sets tighter standards than what the state agency that puts out the building code says is needed. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.4). Prohibits a municipality that administers and enforces a building inspection program from adopting construction standards or methods from the Reach Code, or a similar or related code of standards and methods, that exceed or are more stringent than statewide standards and methods that the Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services adopts and administers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB498
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows owners of newer historic houses to build an extra house. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for the purpose of serving as an accessory dwelling unit to a home newly constructed on rural residential lands.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB499
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act provides money to replace old mobile homes in SW Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
3/10/25
Refer
3/11/25
The Act directs higher learning schools to have a policy that requires certain teachers to have obtained at least a master's degree. The Act provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires the governing board of each public university in this state to adopt a personnel policy that includes institutional standards for faculty qualifications. Requires that the standards include that faculty must have obtained at least a master's degree. Provides for exceptions to the policy.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB50
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
This Act lets OHCS use LIFT moneys for Metro counties to buy apartments for low-cost housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). [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.] Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use certain moneys in the Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund set aside to purchase multifamily housing to convert to affordable housing. Sunsets June 30, 2027. Updates sources of the fund. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB500
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a new tax credit for building affordable houses. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows a new income or corporate excise tax credit for a portion of the eligible costs of a newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for a price that is affordable to a household with an annual income at or below 120 percent of the area median income. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB501
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act limits the appeal of a land use dispute to nearby opponents of the project who went to a hearing. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or maintain a business in or within 25 miles of a boundary of local government or special district and appeared before a decision maker in person at a hearing, if available.