Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB967
Introduced
1/30/25
Refer
1/30/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Enrolled
5/13/25
Passed
5/22/25
The Act would let local bodies enter into an IGA that says how they will deal with a local improvement in a UGB. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). [Digest: The Act would let local bodies enter into an IGA that says how they will deal with a local improvement in a city's UGB. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).] Authorizes local governments to enter into agreements governing local improvements proposed for unincorporated areas within [a city's] an urban growth boundary.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB968
Introduced
1/30/25
Refer
1/30/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
The Act would make new laws for deductions from public employees' wages to recoup amounts that were paid in error. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB969
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Removes EFSC power over a project that makes clean power or is a power line, is only on U.S. lands and is reviewed under NEPA. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act. Requires the person seeking federal approval for the facility to meet certain requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB97
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/7/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/16/25
Enrolled
5/20/25
Passed
5/28/25
The Act makes changes to some laws about funding for family law services. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Directs county treasurers and presiding judges of judicial districts to prepare and submit certain financial reports regarding conciliation and mediation accounts. Authorizes a county governing body to increase fees for issuances of marriage licenses and registrations of Declarations of Domestic Partnership. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB970
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Limits when students may be placed in remote or online learning programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Provides that enrollment in a remote learning program or an online learning program is voluntary. Provides exceptions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB971
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
The Act tells DAS to set up a program to train educational surrogates. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Department of Administrative Services to contract with a disability protection and advocacy agency to develop and administer a certification program for educational surrogates. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Administrative Services for the certification program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB972
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
The Act makes changes to who can say they have a "caregiver relationship" with a child and how they can intervene in a child welfare matter. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Modifies the definition of "caregiver relationship." Modifies the procedure for intervention in child welfare proceedings.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB973
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/10/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Enrolled
5/13/25
Passed
5/22/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Amends the notices that a landlord must give to tenants warning when the landlord's obligation to charge the tenant low rent will end. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated. Becomes operative January 1, 2026. Extends from 20 months to 30 months the minimum notice landlords must give existing tenants regarding expiring affordability restrictions. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to adopt rules by December 1, 2025, that prescribe the form of the notice and translations. Applies to properties with restrictions ending on or after July 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB974
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
4/18/25
Engrossed
4/29/25
Refer
4/29/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
Passed
6/16/25
This Act speeds up review of housing permits. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within [90] 120 days of submission. [Defines "urban housing application." Requires urban housing applications to be reviewed as limited land use decisions. Authorizes award of attorney fees to applicant if engineering plans or land use applications for residential development are not processed timely.] Establishes a limited review process for certain applications for residential development within an urban growth boundary. Becomes operative on July 1, 2026. Prohibits local governments from applying certain design review requirements for certain [urban housing applications] residential developments within an urban growth boundary. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB975
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
The Act exempts some people from needing a criminal background check for a private party gun transfer. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Exempts a transferee who is a certified participant in the Address Confidentiality Program, or who has a driver license with a continuous traveler address, from the private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB976
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act says a person might be allowed to check and see if cows are pregnant, even if the person is not a veterinarian. Allows the ODA to adopt rules to explain when this is okay. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). [Digest: The Act says a person might be allowed to do certain jobs with animals, like taking care of horses' teeth or checking if cows are pregnant, even if they are not veterinarians. Allows the ODA to adopt rules to explain when this is okay. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).] Allows an individual to [perform equine dentistry and to] verify whether cattle are pregnant without holding a valid license issued by the Oregon State Veterinary Medical Examining Board under certain circumstances. Permits the State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules. Establishes the Task Force on Equine Dentistry. Directs the task force to report on findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than December 15, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB977
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
Tells the HECC to create a college program for youth with certain disabilities. Sets forth the needs for the program. Gives money to the HECC for the program. Declares an emergency and takes effect on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). [Digest: Tells the HECC to create a college program for youth with certain disabilities. Sets forth the needs for the program. Gives money to the HECC for the program. Creates a task force to look into possible law changes to improve the experience of students with certain disabilities. Ends the task force on January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency and takes effect on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4).] Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to work with Portland State University and community colleges to establish a post-secondary program for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Specifies the requirements of the program. Appropriates moneys to the commission for allocation to Portland State University to support the Career and Community Studies program. Appropriates moneys to the commission for allocation to community colleges that participate in establishing a program for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. [Establishes the Task Force on Ensuring Post-Secondary Educational Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities for the purpose of investigating whether statutory changes would improve the experience and outcomes of students with disabilities.] [Sunsets the task force on January 2, 2028.] Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB978
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Requires school districts and ESDs to prepare a report about legal acts occurring during the school year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires school districts and education service districts to prepare an annual report of the legal processes involved in by the district during the school year, including the legal expenditures of the district for the school year.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB979
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
The Act tells HECC to study higher learning for people with a disability. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a study on ensuring post-secondary educational opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Directs the commission to convene an advisory group for purposes of the study. Directs the commission to report to the Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB98
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/24/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/10/25
Report Pass
5/15/25
Enrolled
5/20/25
Passed
6/3/25
The Act changes some laws about courts. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Modifies provisions relating to court processes and procedures. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.