Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB860
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
4/1/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
Allows the State Fire Marshal and an agency to take actions for fire protection. Makes changes related to a fire policy council. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Grants certain authorities to the State Fire Marshal and the Department of the State Fire Marshal. Makes certain changes related to the Governor's Fire Service Policy Council.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB861
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
The Act makes changes related to funding for fighting fires. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Makes certain changes related to the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund. Instructs the Department of the State Fire Marshal to report on certain amounts and expenditures on or before March 31 of each odd-numbered year. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB862
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
4/1/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
The Act makes changes about fire districts. The Act tells an agency to adopt a base fire prevention code. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.9). Makes certain changes related to rural fire protection districts. Instructs the Department of the State Fire Marshal to adopt a base fire prevention code. Makes certain changes related to names for rural fire protection districts.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB863
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
6/12/25
The Act allows the State Fire Marshal to recover costs from persons who start fires. The Act allows certain actions related to cost recovery. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to seek cost recovery for the actual cost of fire abatement. Authorizes the Attorney General to take certain actions to investigate liability for the actual cost of fire abatement, upon request by the State Fire Marshal. Authorizes deputy state fire marshals to take certain actions to preserve evidence and investigate liability for the actual cost of fire abatement.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB864
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/7/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
Says that a person that works as a landscaper must pay $20,000 for a bond. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Sets two different bond amounts for doing business as a landscape contractor. The bond amounts are based on how much the business charges for landscape jobs. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).] Sets [the] a bonding requirement of $20,000 for applicants for a landscape contracting business license or for licensed landscape contracting businesses [at $20,000 if the applicant or licensed landscape contracting business charges $100,000 or less for landscape jobs that the applicant or licensed landscape contracting business undertakes regularly and at $50,000 if the applicant or licensed landscape contracting business charges more than $100,000 for any landscape job].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB865
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
5/8/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Adds some new kinds of work to the work that a person can do only if the person has a license from the State Landscape Contractors Board. Lets a person install water features without needing a license from the State Landscape Contractors Board if the person has a license from the Construction Contractors Board. Lets a person get out of a contract for landscape work on real property within three days even if the person does not own or lease the real property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying. Exempts persons or businesses who are licensed with the Construction Contractors Board and who install ornamental water features from a requirement to obtain a landscape contractors license. Removes the requirement that a person who intends to rescind a contract with a landscape contracting business for work on real property own or lease the real property. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB866
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Directs ODE to study ways to improve the social emotional health of students and staff in public schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving the social emotional health of students and staff in public schools. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB867
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/10/25
Report Pass
5/5/25
Enrolled
5/12/25
Passed
5/19/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Makes many changes to the powers and duties of ODE for investigations at a school or school district. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Prescribes sanctions that the Department of Education may impose when an elementary or secondary school or program is found to be in noncompliance with a discrimination prohibition. Clarifies the applicability of provisions related to abuse and sexual conduct in schools when an education provider serves only students who have not yet entered kindergarten. Specifies that provisions related to abuse and sexual conduct in schools apply to any person who provided services as an employee, a contractor, an agent or a volunteer within two calendar years prior to when the incident of suspected sexual conduct was committed. Eliminates certain information that must be disclosed to certain persons following the completion of an investigation involving suspected sexual conduct at a school. Requires law enforcement to make available to the department certain information received during investigations of suspected child abuse. [Modifies standards for determining if a school district or public charter school is involved in religious activity.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB868
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Enrolled
5/8/25
Passed
5/19/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Directs ODE to make a report on the cost of certain programs for special education. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Education to develop a formula and to submit a report related to the calculation of the cost of operating and administering a local, county or regional program of special education.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB869
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act sets the hours that dealers must accept returns of beverage containers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Specifies hours during which dealers must accept returns of beverage containers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB87
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Lets a state agency agree with a local agency how to share duties for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law. Sets higher fines for not obeying the building code. Lets the state agency that governs contractors keep more of the money it collects as fines for breaking the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Permits the Electrical and Elevator Board to enter into agreements with municipalities to share responsibility for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law. Permits the Construction Contractors Board to retain a higher percentage of the proceeds of civil penalties the Construction Contractors Board imposes. Raises the amount of a civil penalty that the Department of Consumer and Business Services may impose for a violation of the state building code from $5,000 per violation to $7,500.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB870
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
Makes the home address and phone number of some OLCC permittees exempt from public disclosure. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Exempts from public records disclosure the residential address and personal phone number of an individual who holds a specified permit issued by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB871
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
The Act says some people that have OLCC licenses have to keep records on the alcohol they get. The Act also says what "alcoholic beverages" means and says some people do not have to report to the OLCC anymore. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission retail licensees to maintain invoices of alcoholic beverage deliveries. Includes in the definition of "alcoholic beverages" items containing one-half of one percent or more alcohol by volume. Removes the requirement to submit a specified report to the commission. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB872
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
The Act modifies SMCB laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Modifies laws related to the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board's authority to impose disciplinary actions on applicants and those subject to the board's regulatory authority.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB873
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/19/25
Passed
5/27/25
The Act ends an Oregon Medical Board license that let doctors from other states work in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Repeals a license issued by the Oregon Medical Board to certain physicians licensed to practice in other jurisdictions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.