Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB503
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows the temporary use of RVs for security on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows a recreational vehicle used to provide temporary security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB504
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
This Act makes LCDC, ODSL and OPRD adopt rules for nature-based solutions to protect the coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: This Act makes LCDC and OPRD adopt bioengineering rules to protect the coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to [allow soil bioengineering systems] provide guidance on nonstructural, nature-based solutions for shoreline stabilization. Allows the Department of State Lands and the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt conforming rules by January 1, 2029.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB505
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act tells ODEM to give grants to counties to pay for emergency coordinators. The Act tells the EPAC to make a group to study the emergency readiness of counties. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program to distribute moneys to certain counties to fund emergency preparedness coordinators. Directs the Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to convene a Committee on County Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding the capacity of counties in Oregon to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB506
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB507
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes separate statutes for fentanyl crimes. The Act also increases sentences for some fentanyl crimes. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Separates the possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statutes into separate statutes. Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence for the delivery of fentanyl to a person under 18 years of age. Beginning July 1, 2033, prohibits optional probation or a downward departure as a sentence for the manufacture or delivery of fentanyl if a person has a previous conviction. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB508
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells an insurer that it may not use a device or technology to track where a person is when the person is driving. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to information that tracks or reveals the geographic location of an insured during any time in which the insured is occupying or operating a motor vehicle that the motor vehicle liability insurance policy covers. Specifies exceptions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB509
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act stops the EQC from adopting, and stops the DEQ from enforcing, California rules that require some trucks sold in the state to have no emissions. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission from adopting motor vehicle emission standards to implement California standards requiring that some or all medium- or heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission vehicles. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing such standards adopted prior to the effective date of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB51
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
This Act makes OHCS fund property management for low income homes and create a program to preserve low income homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). [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.] Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to the Housing Development Center, Inc. to support affordable housing property management. Sunsets June 30, 2027. Requires the department to implement a program advancing culturally responsive property management services. Requires the department to establish a program to coordinate responses to, and to report on, preservation of affordable housing, including manufactured dwelling parks and marinas. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB510
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the PUC do a study on the rate impacts from the required reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021). Directs the commission to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB511
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the DSL to make a pilot program for owners of land to restore salmon habitat. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins. Establishes the Salmon Credit Trust Fund. Directs the Department of State Lands and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to consult with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to develop or identify an existing programmatic general permit to authorize restoration activities under the pilot program. Becomes operative on the date that a programmatic general permit is established. Provides that the Department of State Lands may not approve a salmon credit project on or after January 2 of the sixth year following the establishment of a programmatic general permit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB512
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
The Act tells an agency to study certain factors on fish released from the Rock Creek Hatchery, and to report on the study to the legislature. The Act gives money to the agency for the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). [Digest: The Act tells an agency to operate a fish hatchery at the Rock Creek Hatchery. The Act tells the agency to release the hatchery fish into a river. The Act gives money for those activities. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4).] [Directs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to operate a summer steelhead fish hatchery at the Rock Creek Hatchery and release the hatchery fish into the North Umpqua River.] Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study the impacts of temperature, predation and rearing practices associated with the Rock Creek Hatchery. Directs the department to report on the study to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the [commission] department out of the General Fund for [operating the hatchery and releasing the hatchery fish] conducting the study. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB513
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODFW to study protocols for stocking fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish. 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 SB514
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells agencies to study how wildfire affects water quality. The Act tells the agencies to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environmental Quality to study the impacts of wildfire on water quality of streams and tributaries. Directs the departments to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB515
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act gives money to the DAS to give to the Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby for projects on the Rogue River. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby to facilitate salmonid habitat restoration projects. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB516
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives money to an agency for an inspection program. The program relates to small-scale meat processing and sales. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture for purposes related to a program of state inspection for the processing and sale of meat products from nonamenable species. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.