Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 161)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB16
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says a state agency's public records about being in favor of or against a bill must be made public if the agency has also urged to pass or not pass the bill. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires, if an executive department agency testifies in support of or opposition to a proposed measure or amendment to the measure, the agency to disclose all public records in the agency's custody that relate to the agency's decision to support or oppose the measure or amendment, notwithstanding any other law providing an exemption from the required disclosure. Provides that the law practitioner-client privilege may not serve as a basis for the agency's refusal to disclose the records.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB160
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would end the tax on wages that funds statewide transportation uses. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Repeals the state payroll tax on wages imposed to finance transportation investments and improvements and maintain existing public transportation services. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB161
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to give grants for local health workforce development activities. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB162
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
Passed
6/9/25
Chaptered
6/20/25
Passed
6/20/25
The Act makes changes to some of the state laws about marijuana and industrial hemp. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Authorizes the destruction of hoop houses when executing a search warrant to investigate the unlawful production of marijuana. Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to make the map of licensed industrial hemp operations and marijuana production premises available to the Water Resources Department and the Department of Environmental Quality. Allows the commission to adopt rules to establish a license term for up to five years for specified licenses in certain circumstances. Repeals the prohibition on a marijuana retailer locating within 1,000 feet of a building where a public prekindergarten or kindergarten program is provided. Allows the State Department of Agriculture to inspect biomass and processed industrial hemp stored at the location of a licensed industrial hemp operation. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB163
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
Engrossed
6/17/25
Refer
6/17/25
Report Pass
6/23/25
Enrolled
6/26/25
Passed
7/24/25
The Act makes changes to how parentage of a child is established in this state. The Act sets up a registry to keep information about gamete and embryo donors. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Modifies the ways that parentage of a child may be established. Creates a new presumption of parentage. Expands eligibility for establishing parentage by voluntary acknowledgment to certain persons. Allows certain persons to deny parentage of a child in certain circumstances. Modifies court procedures for adjudications of parentage. Modifies procedures for genetic testing to determine parentage. Specifies the process for determining the parentage of a child conceived by assisted reproduction. Prescribes requirements for gestational surrogacy arrangements. Creates a registry of donors of gametes and embryos. Allows donor-conceived children to access donor registry information upon attaining 18 years of age. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the Public Health Division to update forms and to update the electronic vital records system. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB164
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
The Act updates laws about LLCs. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Updates and modernizes laws that govern the formation, governance, operations and conversion of limited liability companies in this state and relations among members, managers and third parties with respect to limited liability companies in this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB165
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Engrossed
4/14/25
Refer
4/16/25
Report Pass
5/14/25
Enrolled
5/19/25
Passed
5/28/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
This Act amends and repeals laws about the State Land Board's power to claim title to historically filled lands. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Amends the requirements for the State Land Board to assert title to historically filled lands or assert a right to minerals or geothermal resources in historically filled lands. Repeals, on January 2, 2029, the provisions related to assertion of title to historically filled lands by the State Land Board that are required to be completed before December 31, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB166
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
4/23/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
The Act changes the term "member" of the Oregon State Bar to the term "licensee" of the Oregon State Bar. The Act changes some laws about the Oregon State Bar. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Changes the term "member" of the Oregon State Bar to the term "licensee" of the Oregon State Bar. Modifies provisions relating to the Oregon State Bar.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB167
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
4/23/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
Makes changes to the law that governs commerce among merchants so that the law can now take account of new ways of making payments and doing business. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Amends portions of the Uniform Commercial Code to enable the code to govern the use of certain types of digital assets, electronic money, chattel paper, hybrid transactions, including bundles of goods and services, documents of title and payment systems. Makes miscellaneous other amendments to the code and related statutes.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB168
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
4/23/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
The Act changes some laws that apply to a person's estate after the person dies. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Modifies evidence required to establish parentage in a probate proceeding. Exempts certain specific bequests from the asset limits for simple estates. Restricts application of harmless error provisions to nonelectronic writings that were signed by the decedent or at the decedent's direction. Modifies court procedures regarding discovery when there is a contested issue in a probate proceeding.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB169
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act directs the Department of State Police to study forensic science. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Department of State Police to study forensic science. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB17
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes power made from the direct burning of solid waste eligible for RECs. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipal solid waste and became operational before January 1, 1995, if such facilities register with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System at any time, and for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated, per calendar year, from the combustion of biogenic material.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB170
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Enrolled
6/4/25
Passed
6/16/25
Chaptered
6/23/25
Passed
6/23/25
The Act makes assault in the fourth degree more serious when the victim is at work and the assailant assaulted others at work. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study assaults in the workplace. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).] [Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study workplace assault convictions and sentences. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Increases the offense level of assault in the fourth degree when the defendant commits the assault against a victim performing official duties as part of the victim's employment and has certain prior convictions for assault in the workplace. Punishes by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB171
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes changes to laws about when a person with a mental illness may be taken into custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Defines "dangerous to self," "dangerous to others" and "serious physical harm" for the purpose of involuntarily committing a person with mental illness. Describes evidence that the court may consider in civil commitment proceedings.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB172
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the Oregon State Bar to study attorneys and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Requires the Oregon State Bar to study attorneys. Directs the bar to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.