Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 186)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB498
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows owners of newer historic houses to build an extra house. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for the purpose of serving as an accessory dwelling unit to a home newly constructed on rural residential lands.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB499
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act provides money to replace old mobile homes in SW Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
3/10/25
Refer
3/11/25
The Act directs higher learning schools to have a policy that requires certain teachers to have obtained at least a master's degree. The Act provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires the governing board of each public university in this state to adopt a personnel policy that includes institutional standards for faculty qualifications. Requires that the standards include that faculty must have obtained at least a master's degree. Provides for exceptions to the policy.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB50
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
This Act lets OHCS use LIFT moneys for Metro counties to buy apartments for low-cost housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).] [Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.] Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use certain moneys in the Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund set aside to purchase multifamily housing to convert to affordable housing. Sunsets June 30, 2027. Updates sources of the fund. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB500
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a new tax credit for building affordable houses. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows a new income or corporate excise tax credit for a portion of the eligible costs of a newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for a price that is affordable to a household with an annual income at or below 120 percent of the area median income. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB501
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act limits the appeal of a land use dispute to nearby opponents of the project who went to a hearing. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or maintain a business in or within 25 miles of a boundary of local government or special district and appeared before a decision maker in person at a hearing, if available.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB502
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act awards legal fees against a third party who fails in appealing a land use decision. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Awards attorney fees against an intervenor in any unsuccessful appeal of a quasi-judicial land use decision.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB503
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows the temporary use of RVs for security on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows a recreational vehicle used to provide temporary security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB504
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
6/20/25
Engrossed
6/23/25
Refer
6/23/25
Report Pass
6/25/25
Enrolled
6/26/25
Passed
7/24/25
This Act makes LCDC, ODSL and OPRD adopt rules for nature-based solutions to protect the coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to provide guidance on nonstructural, nature-based solutions for shoreline stabilization. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Land Conservation and Development for the purpose of adopting rules. Allows the Department of State Lands and the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt conforming rules by January 1, 2029.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB505
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
The Act tells ODEM to give grants to counties to pay for emergency coordinators. The Act tells the EPAC to make a group to study the emergency readiness of counties. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program to distribute moneys to certain counties to fund emergency preparedness coordinators. Directs the Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to convene a Committee on County Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding the capacity of counties in Oregon to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB506
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB507
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes separate statutes for fentanyl crimes. The Act also increases sentences for some fentanyl crimes. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Separates the possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statutes into separate statutes. Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence for the delivery of fentanyl to a person under 18 years of age. Beginning July 1, 2033, prohibits optional probation or a downward departure as a sentence for the manufacture or delivery of fentanyl if a person has a previous conviction. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB508
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells an insurer that it may not use a device or technology to track where a person is when the person is driving. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to information that tracks or reveals the geographic location of an insured during any time in which the insured is occupying or operating a motor vehicle that the motor vehicle liability insurance policy covers. Specifies exceptions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB509
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act stops the EQC from adopting, and stops the DEQ from enforcing, California rules that require some trucks sold in the state to have no emissions. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission from adopting motor vehicle emission standards to implement California standards requiring that some or all medium- or heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission vehicles. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing such standards adopted prior to the effective date of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB51
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
Report Pass
6/23/25
Engrossed
6/24/25
Refer
6/24/25
Report Pass
6/25/25
Enrolled
6/26/25
Passed
7/17/25
Chaptered
7/25/25
Passed
7/25/25
This Act makes OHCS fund property management for low income homes and create a program to preserve low income homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to the Housing Development Center, Inc. to support affordable housing property management. Sunsets June 30, 2027. [Requires the department to implement a program advancing culturally responsive property management services.] Requires the department to establish a program to coordinate responses to, and to report on, preservation of affordable housing, including manufactured dwelling parks and marinas. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.