All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2397
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes how data about some sex offenders is released. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on a website maintained by the department.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2398
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning schools. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2035. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state. Requires each high school in this state to provide certain information about students who received a high school diploma to specified community colleges and universities. Prohibits a student's information from being provided unless that student consents. Sunsets on July 1, 2035.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2399
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells DAS to start a grant program for persons who agree to serve in a uniformed service or public service program and complete the basic or initial training. Creates the Restart Initiative Fund. Exempts from personal income tax the amount of an awarded grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide one-time grants to individuals who agree to serve in a uniformed service or public service program and complete the basic or initial training for the uniformed service or public service program. Creates the Restart Initiative Fund. Exempts from personal income tax the amount of an awarded grant.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2400
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows a rural homeowner to build a house for a relative. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2401
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act funds the AgriStress Helpline. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to support the operation of the AgriStress Helpline in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2402
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells agencies to look at their rules and simplify them. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2403
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act would let owners of land form a district in order to pay the costs to the county of staving off damage to their land caused by predators, by both nonlethal and lethal means. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals. Defines "prevent, reduce and mitigate damage to property from predatory animals" to include both nonlethal and lethal methods of prevention, reduction and mitigation. Establishes presumptive charges of $2 per acre for tax lots of 10 or more acres and a $50 flat rate charge for tax lots of less than 10 acres. Creates a cause of action under the district program for counties, landowners, districts and cities involved in the program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2404
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the State Board of Ed. to make a pilot program to help students access education after high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the State Board of Education, in coordination with Eastern Oregon University, to establish a pilot program to provide resources and support for students to access post-secondary education opportunities. Directs the Department of Education to submit a report on the pilot program no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2405
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act would give money to the HECC for the adults in custody at some prisons in the eastern part of Oregon to get an education. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). [Digest: The Act would give money to the DOC for the adults in custody at some prisons in the eastern part of Oregon to get an education. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0).] [Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for distribution to some department institutions in eastern Oregon for the purpose of providing educational programs to adults in custody.] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Eastern Oregon University to provide university degrees to adults in custody at some correctional facilities in eastern Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2406
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the ODE to study career-based learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2407
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that if an agency approves a plan for a capital project, the agency can't change parts of the plan that it already approved. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Prohibits regulatory agencies from enforcing rules or regulations relating to issues that were considered or addressed as part of a prior approval or permit for certain capital construction projects.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2408
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
The Act gives money to HECC to fund certain programs at OSU. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for allocation to Oregon State University to fund the agricultural experiment station and branch stations, the Oregon State University Extension Service and the Forest Research Laboratory. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2409
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a pilot program for local stewardship of natural resources. The Act gives money for the program. The Act ends the program on January 2, 2031. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.1). Directs the Office of Outdoor Recreation to establish a rural community and land stewardship technical assistance and planning pilot program. Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund for the program. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2031. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2410
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
Allows EFSC to approve a power plant demo project that uses one or more small modular reactors. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County. Requires the demonstration project to use microgrid enabling technologies such that the project can be isolated from the electric grid and support community energy resilience. Requires the council to consult with each interested federally recognized Indian tribe with tribal lands located in Umatilla County on an application for a site certificate for a demonstration project. Directs the State Department of Energy, in cooperation with certain state agencies, to prepare a report on statutes, rules, requirements or orders that may be applicable to a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project, and statutes and rules that may need to be adopted or modified to enable the Energy Facility Siting Council to provide oversight of a demonstration project. Directs the department to submit the report to the interim committees or committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than [one year after the Act takes effect] December 15, 2026. Establishes the Umatilla County SMR Demonstration Project Report Fund. Refers the Act to the people of Umatilla County for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2411
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
The Act would allow the state to aid sponsors with the financing of industrial land projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land. Establishes the Industrial Site Loan Fund in the State Treasury. Allocates lottery funds for deposit in the fund for the purpose of funding financial assistance to industrial land projects.