Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB577
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/15/25
Engrossed
4/17/25
Refer
4/23/25
Makes a power provider recoup the costs to store the waste made from making electric power. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires an electric utility to recover costs for storing the waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity. Requires a person who develops an energy facility to disclose the costs of storing the waste produced by the energy facility in generating electricity. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB578
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/17/25
Engrossed
4/22/25
Refer
4/24/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
Enrolled
6/13/25
Sets the dates by which a candidate must file a picture or statement to be included in a county voters' pamphlet. Becomes law 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Establishes the dates by which a candidate or the candidate's agent must file a portrait and statement for purposes of being included in a county voters' pamphlet. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB579
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
The Act gives money to the State Fire Marshal for distribution related to a fire station. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Appropriates moneys to the State Fire Marshal for distribution to Central Douglas Fire and Rescue for certain purposes. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB58
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Refer
4/4/25
This Act makes OHCS award grants to counties for subgrants to home owners to create auxiliary dwellings for rent. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish and administer a pilot program to award grants to counties. Requires recipient counties to establish a home modification program that awards grants to homeowners to develop and rent interior auxiliary dwelling units within an urban growth boundary or an area zoned for rural residential use. [Prevents auxiliary dwelling units developed by the grant from triggering recalculation of property value for property tax purposes. Applies to assessment years beginning January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032.] Sunsets on January 2, 2034. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB580
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
5/5/25
Engrossed
5/7/25
Refer
5/9/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
Enrolled
6/13/25
The Act tells local election chiefs to put certain papers on the county or city website. The Act becomes law 91 days after the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires filing officers in each county and city to make publicly available on the county or city website [within two business days] certain election documents that are filed with the filing officer within a specified period. Permits filing officers to charge a fee in certain circumstances. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB581
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act tells OHA to give money to some psychologists and some psychology students who take a type of class. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Creates the psychology provider incentive program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide financial incentives to students enrolled in approved doctoral programs in psychology who complete courses that provide cultural competency training. Requires the program to provide loan repayment subsidies to certain licensed psychologists. Establishes the Psychology Provider Incentive Fund. Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to guarantee full-time employment to certain licensed psychologists. Requires public employers to award a hiring preference to certain licensed psychologists. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB582
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes laws about police body camera footage. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Prohibits a police officer involved in a use of deadly physical force incident from reviewing body camera recordings before participating in an interview about the incident. Creates an alternative court process for a person denied access to a public record consisting of a body camera recording of a law enforcement use of deadly physical force incident. Directs the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to create technical standards for the maintenance and secure storage of body camera recordings. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB583
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates a task force to study a state public bank. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.9). Establishes the State Public Bank Task Force. Directs the task force to study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a state public bank. Requires the task force to submit a report to a committee of the Legislative Assembly by September 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB584
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Enrolled
6/11/25
Declares a month in praise of Oregon truffles. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Designates February of each year as Oregon Truffle Month. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB585
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells PERB to look at retirement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study retirement. Directs the board to 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 SB586
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/7/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
This Act allows a landlord to pay a tenant to reduce the time a landlord must give a tenant to move when selling the rented home to a buyer who will move in. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.6). [Digest: This Act reduces the time a landlord must give a tenant to move when selling the rented home to a buyer who will move in. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).] [Reduces] Allows a landlord to pay a tenant one month's rent to reduce from 90 to [45] 60 days the termination notice period that a landlord must give the tenant when selling the dwelling unit to buyers who intend to reside in the unit. Eliminates the requirement that the unit be sold separately from any other dwelling unit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB587
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
6/2/25
Refer
6/2/25
Exempts awards from and legal fees paid in wildfire suits from corporate excise and income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire. Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for wildfire-related legal fees paid by plaintiffs. Allows a taxpayer to amend a return to claim a refund for earliest tax year in which subtraction is allowed. Applies to declarations and executive orders issued on or after January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2026, and to amounts received, losses incurred and legal fees paid in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB588
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/8/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
The Act says that the PERB has to send disability cases about police and firefighters to be heard within a certain time. The Act changes how PERS looks at the disability of police and firefighters. The Act says that a disabled member of PERS can earn some money and not lose benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). [Digest: The Act says that a police or fire worker's PTSD is an on duty disease or injury for PERS disability with some facts. The Act says that the PERB has to hear a challenge about disability benefits in a short time. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.2).] [Provides that post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a police officer or firefighter is an injury or disease sustained in the actual performance of duties for purposes of benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System in certain circumstances.] Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to [hold] refer a contested case for a hearing requested by a police officer or firefighter who is denied disability benefits within a certain period of time. Provides that a member of the Public Employees Retirement System who is a police officer or firefighter is disabled if the member is mentally or physically incapacitated and unable to perform the work the member performed at the time the member became disabled, instead of unable to perform any work. Allows a disabled member of the system to receive certain earned income without losing disability benefits. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB589
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODHS to study adult foster homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of Human Services to study adult foster homes. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB59
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows HOA members or their tenants to grow a garden or raise hens or bees. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.0). Allows specified production of food in planned communities by lot owners and their tenants.