Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB603
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to set up rules for other state agencies to use in coming up with programs and budgets the agencies want to fund with grants. Tells the head of the state's labor bureau to form a committee to give advice about setting a prevailing rate of wage for workers in nonprofit organizations. Tells the head of the bureau to set a prevailing rate of wage. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish guidelines for state agencies to follow in designing programs and establishing budgets for ongoing or multiyear activities that state agencies intend to fund with grant moneys. Specifies contents for the guidelines. Requires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to establish an advisory committee to assist the commissioner in determining a prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits for employees of nonprofit organizations, providing guidance to state agencies in calculating labor costs and wage allocations the state agencies can use in establishing budgets for grant programs, delineating categories of work for the purpose of enabling the commissioner to determine an applicable prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits and calculating and publishing data that state agencies can use in making adjustments to program and activity costs to account for inflation and cost-of-living allowances. Requires the commissioner at least once each program year to determine in consultation with the advisory committee the prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits for workers in each category of work and region that the advisory committee establishes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB604
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
The Act creates a program in HECC to provide support for certain students. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Establishes the Strong Start Program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing support to first-year and underrepresented students at public universities in this state. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB605
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/18/25
Engrossed
4/24/25
Refer
4/24/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
Stops people who provide medical services to patients from telling a credit bureau that a patient owes a debt, or the amount of the debt. Allows a person to sue a person who breaks this law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB606
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act would add certain health care workers to those whose stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' comp claim is compensable. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom certain stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' compensation claim is compensable as an occupational disease.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB607
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed for mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state. Requires the authority to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB608
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to study ways to improve services for people with complex medical needs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study the feasibility of implementing a new classification for case managers who serve people with acute behavioral health needs. Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study funding pathways for providing behavioral health services to seniors and persons with physical disabilities, a shared functional needs assessment tool and a process for incorporating housing benefit eligibility applications into the Oregon Eligibility (ONE) system. Directs the Department of Human Services to develop a data-driven argument for expanding the service priority levels for which an individual may be eligible for medical assistance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB609
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act tells OHA and CCOs to set minimum rates for reimbursing certain health care providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB61
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act limits when OHA may claw back moneys paid to Medicaid providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements paid on claims in the medical assistance program if the provider can verify that the patient visit occurred or the service or item was provided. Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements based on a sample of a provider's claims unless a similar error rate is found in a sample of at least 15 percent of the provider's claims. Applies to audits of claims for the reimbursement of items or services provided on or after January 1, 2019, if the claims have not been fully adjudicated. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB610
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
5/13/25
Engrossed
5/19/25
Refer
5/21/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
The Act makes changes to the OAC's and OHA's duties regarding BHRNs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study funding for substance use services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020). Directs the authority 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.] Modifies the duties and composition of the Oversight and Accountability Council. Transfers to the Oregon Health Authority the responsibility to administer, in consulation with the council, a grant program for Behavioral Health Resource Networks. Repeals the requirement for the authority to establish a Behavioral Health Resource Network statewide telephone hotline.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB611
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act creates the Food for All Oregonians Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Establishes the Food for All Oregonians Program in the Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to [residents of] children residing in this state who are six years of age or under and who would qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for their immigration status. Requires the department to implement the program by January 1, 2027, and conduct statewide outreach, education and engagement to maximize enrollment in the program. Requires the department to convene an advisory group to recommend metrics to evaluate the success of the department in treating all applicants for and recipients of public assistance in a welcoming manner and with respect, courtesy, fairness and dignity. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB612
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes the DOC create a list of each undocumented individual who has been charged with or convicted of a crime in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the Department of Corrections to establish and update a list of each undocumented individual who has been charged with or convicted of a crime in this state and each crime for which an undocumented individual has been charged or convicted.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB613
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act repeals certain provisions from the pay equity law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies pay equity requirements for employers. Removes certain provisions relating to obligations, rights and remedies under pay equity laws. Makes conforming amendments. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB614
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act lets a person offering some dangerous sports make a patron sign a release of claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows an operator offering or providing facilities for an inherently dangerous sporting activity to require a patron to provide an anticipatory release from certain claims for liability, including claims arising out of the negligence of the operator and claims for unreasonable conditions created by the operator. Provides that the release is not unconscionable. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB615
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates a way to charge and sentence a person who causes permanent injury to another. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Establishes a procedure for charging an aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when the defendant causes permanent physical injury to the victim during the commission of the crime. Provides that if the defendant is convicted of the aggravated offense, the court shall sentence the defendant to 300 months' imprisonment. Authorizes the court to impose a lesser sentence in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB616
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act stops a city from limiting home building for tree preservation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits a local government from conditioning the development or use of property for needed housing based on the retention of trees. Provides exceptions. Sunsets January 1, 2036.