Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 174)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB335
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products. Directs the department to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB336
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives moneys to an agency for a certain grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture, out of the General Fund, for the purpose of developing a grant program to fund the construction of meat rendering plants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB337
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act permits counties to allow smaller farm or forest parcels. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows counties to authorize the subdivision of land zoned for exclusive farm use or forest use into parcels no smaller than the average size of the county's lots and parcels of the same type.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB338
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the Gov. to tell a U.S. official that a marine sanctuary in this state will not be accepted unless the legislature signs off on it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires the Governor to certify to the United States Secretary of Commerce that the designation of a national marine sanctuary located within the seaward boundary of Oregon is unacceptable unless the Legislative Assembly confirms the designation.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB339
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
The Act gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death. The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB34
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/18/25
Refer
4/18/25
The Act makes changes to laws about the persons that own and operate long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0).] Requires the Department of Human Services to study [long term care] the information that a long term care facility must disclose about its owners and operators and the feasibility of implementing an online portal to collect and share information about long term care facilities with the public. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than [September 15, 2026] December 31, 2025. Sunsets the study requirements on January 2, 2027. Requires a long term care facility, before the facility may change its owner or operator, to apply to the department for approval and provide notice to residents. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB340
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells an insurer in some cases not to raise the price of a policy of fire insurance by more than three percent each year or cancel the policy. The cases are if the policy holder lives near wild land or works at farming, logging, mining or similar work. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Prohibits an insurer from canceling fire insurance policies, or raising policy premiums by more than three percent, if an insured's property is located within the wildland-urban interface or the insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction. Specifies exceptions. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine by rule how to measure employment or economic or business activity for the purposes of qualifying for limitations on cancellations and policy increases. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB341
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes the amount and percentage of certain forest land required to claim estate credit smaller. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Reduces the required size of real property and the percentage of value of the adjusted gross estate necessary for real property to qualify for a natural resource property credit against estate tax, where the real property is forestland or forestland homesites. Applies to estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB342
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows a small forestland owner to harvest certain trees. The Act allows an agency to adopt rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Provides that a small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation requirements may harvest the trees. Specifies that reforestation requirements apply after the trees have been harvested. Allows the State Board of Forestry to adopt rules.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB343
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study forest management. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly regarding efficacy of forest management. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB344
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells the Attorney General to sue the U.S. government if some wildfires that cause bad air quality start on U.S. land. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to notify the Attorney General if the air quality index readings for an area of the state reach 250 or higher during seven consecutive days and the cause is believed to be a wildfire originating on lands owned by the United States. Directs the Attorney General to investigate and bring a civil action if the wildfire was caused by negligent or unlawful forest management practices.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB345
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells courts to award money for property damage caused by fires started in federal forests. The Act tells an agency to create a group for insuring small forestland against fire. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires a court to award damages for the cost of replanting to a plaintiff prevailing against the federal government or a contractor in an action for injury to private land arising from a fire originating on federal forestland. Requires the Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a joint underwriting association for the purpose of ensuring the availability of property insurance to protect small tract forestland against the peril of fire.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB346
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a pilot grant program for managing wildfire risk. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4). Directs the State Forestry Department to establish by rule a pilot grant program for the purpose of managing wildfire risk by certain methods. Sunsets the grant program on June 30, 2027. Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for the purpose of funding the grant program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB347
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Refer
6/5/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Enrolled
6/19/25
Passed
7/17/25
Chaptered
7/25/25
Passed
7/25/25
The Act would end special tax assessment for land if the owner or the person in control of the land gets a civil penalty for growing pot on the land or is found guilty of growing it there. The Act would make an exception if the owner reasonably didn't know about the pot or called the police as soon as they did know. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Disqualifies land from farm use special assessments upon a final civil penalty or judgment of conviction for the illegal growing of marijuana against the landowner or person in possession and control of the land. Provides an exception for a landowner or other obligated taxpayer who reasonably lacked knowledge of the illegal growing of marijuana or promptly notified a law enforcement agency of the illegal growing of marijuana. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB348
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to set fees for multiyear hunting licenses. The Act sets agent fees for issuing the licenses. The provisions go into effect later. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9). Requires the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish and prescribe fees for multiyear resident and nonresident hunting licenses. Sets the amount of the agent fee for issuance of each multiyear license. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.