Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2052
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a violation if a student does not attend school. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates a violation for failure to comply with compulsory school attendance requirements. Punishes by a maximum fine of $500. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2053
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes it against the law for a minor to take some actions related to tobacco or nicotine. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Creates the offense of a minor purchasing or attempting to purchase, possessing or attempting to possess or using in public an alternative nicotine product, inhalant delivery system or tobacco product. Punishes violation by a maximum fine of $50, community service or participation in a health promotion and risk reduction program, or a combination thereof.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2054
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act says that projects that convert farmland to wetlands must be approved by a local government. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires local government approval of a project to create, enhance or restore wetlands if the project would convert lands used for agricultural purposes to wetlands.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2055
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that a private entity may swipe a driver's license to confirm a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allowed to swipe a driver's license to verify a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2056
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
The Act helps fund community mental health programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study the cost of community mental health programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the cost of community mental health programs. 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.] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2057
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells insurers and PBMs not to require that drugs be labeled as 340B drugs in a claim for repayment. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Prohibits insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2058
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would set a static, permanent match for the estate tax exemption, tied to the federal exempt amount for 2025 deaths. The Act would become law on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable estate exceeds $13.99 million. Raises the threshold for the filing of an estate tax return to a gross estate valued at more than $13.99 million. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2059
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act creates a program to fund certain mental health and SUD treatment programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to create a unit focused on building new mental health and SUD facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).] [Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a unit dedicated to developing sufficient adult behavioral health facilities to serve the needs of each trauma system area in this state.] Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state. Sunsets on January 2, [2031] 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2060
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/11/25
Directs ODE to have a registry for tutors. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Directs the Department of Education to establish and maintain a registry for nonlicensed tutors. Authorizes school districts to contract with a nonlicensed tutor only if the tutor is registered.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2061
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act creates a task force about how to recruit and retain certain long term care workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.0). Establishes a task force on the recruitment and retention of case managers and adult protective services workers. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2062
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
This Act says that makers of batteries must carry out a plan to collect and recycle batteries. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires producers of batteries or battery-containing products to join a battery producer responsibility organization and implement a battery producer responsibility program for the collection and recycling of batteries. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to administer and enforce requirements of the Act. Establishes the Battery Producer Responsibility Fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2063
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
This Act creates a task force to study and report on energy production on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Creates the Agrivoltaics Task Force staffed by the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Requires the task force to study agrivoltaics and to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to land use by December 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2064
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the PUC take certain actions to support microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Public Utility Commission to take certain actions to support the operations of microgrids and community microgrids. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules that support the integration of buildings with community microgrids. Allows local governments to adopt land use regulations that correspond to microgrid zones and designate a geographical area as a microgrid zone, subject to the approval of the commission. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2065
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Allows the use of a third party to study or evaluate a request to connect a microgrid to a power grid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). [Digest: Allows the use of a third party to study or evaluate a request to connect a project to a power system. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).] Allows a person to contract with a third-party consultant to conduct a study or engineering evaluation that a public utility requires for an application to interconnect a [community renewable energy project or] microgrid or community microgrid. Allows a contracted third-party consultant to receive from a public utility all technical data necessary to conduct the study or engineering evaluation and submit to the public utility a preliminary design for review. Requires a public utility to approve or deny an application based on safety, reliability and compliance with published standards. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2066
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Tells the PUC to create rules and a framework to allow microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a regulatory framework to allow the ownership, deployment and use of microgrids and community microgrids within the service territories of electric companies. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules that support the integration of buildings with community microgrids. Allows local governments to adopt land use regulations that correspond to microgrid zones and designate a geographical area as a microgrid zone, subject to the approval of the commission or local consumer-owned utility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.