Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 197)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB599
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/14/25
Enrolled
5/19/25
Passed
5/28/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
This Act bans a landlord from biases in renting a home based on immigration status. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: This Act bans biases in the rent or sale of property based on immigration status. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).] Prohibits landlords from inquiring about or [disclosing] discriminating on the basis of a tenant's or applicant's immigration or citizenship status, [or] rejecting an applicant [due to immigration status. Prohibits discrimination based on immigration status for real property transactions.] based on the type of identifying documentation or disclosing or threatening disclosure of an applicant's or a tenant's immigration or citizenship status for improper purposes. Authorizes statutory penalties. Becomes operative 30 days after the effective date. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB6
Introduced
3/10/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Says an application for a building permit must be acted on not later than 45 days after it is done. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code to approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit for middle housing or conventional single-family residential housing in a residential subdivision with more than six lots not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits a complete application. Requires any other agency or jurisdiction that must review an application for a building permit to complete the review within 10 business days after receipt or the portion of the application that is subject to the review is approved. Declares that an application for a building permit is approved if the department, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official fails to deny or act upon the application within the allowable period. Requires prompt issuance of the building permit in such circumstances. Makes the department, municipality, building official or other agency or official that fails to promptly issue the building permit liable to the applicant for the fees the applicant paid and the costs the applicant incurred in preparing the application.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB60
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that claims about child abuse are not subject to the notice requirement of the OTCA. The Act revives some claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.4). Exempts claims based on conduct that constitutes child abuse, or conduct that constitutes knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse, from the notice requirement of the Oregon Tort Claims Act. Revives certain causes of action barred because of the notice requirement or the statute of limitations or repose. Requires a revived claim to be filed within two years after the effective date of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB600
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to study how to make housing more affordable for some people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to affordable housing not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB601
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act requires OHCS to study low-cost housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB602
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
6/11/25
Refer
6/11/25
Sets up a body to talk to state agencies about how to make grants and buy goods and services for the state from not for profit organizations. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: The Act sets policies for the state to use for awards of grants and public contracts to certain recipients. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).] Establishes the Nonprofit [Organization] Advisory Council [within the Oregon Department of Administrative Services]. Specifies the membership of the council and requires the council to [review the state's] consult with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and with employees of state agencies that make grants to or enter into public contracts with nonprofit organizations concerning granting and procurement processes as applied to nonprofit organizations. Provides that the council shall also identify and recommend updates to statutes and administrative rule to improve grant making and contracting processes with nonprofit organizations, evaluate and recommend whether to create a centralized database to manage grant making and report to the Legislative Assembly. [Establishes the Nonprofit Organization Partnership Fund to fund the council.] Specifies requirements for grant agreements and public contracts into which state agencies enter with nonprofit organizations. [Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to create a centralized database for use in managing the state's grants to nonprofit organizations.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB603
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to set up rules for other state agencies to use in coming up with programs and budgets the agencies want to fund with grants. Tells the head of the state's labor bureau to form a committee to give advice about setting a prevailing rate of wage for workers in nonprofit organizations. Tells the head of the bureau to set a prevailing rate of wage. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish guidelines for state agencies to follow in designing programs and establishing budgets for ongoing or multiyear activities that state agencies intend to fund with grant moneys. Specifies contents for the guidelines. Requires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to establish an advisory committee to assist the commissioner in determining a prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits for employees of nonprofit organizations, providing guidance to state agencies in calculating labor costs and wage allocations the state agencies can use in establishing budgets for grant programs, delineating categories of work for the purpose of enabling the commissioner to determine an applicable prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits and calculating and publishing data that state agencies can use in making adjustments to program and activity costs to account for inflation and cost-of-living allowances. Requires the commissioner at least once each program year to determine in consultation with the advisory committee the prevailing rate of wage and minimum benefits for workers in each category of work and region that the advisory committee establishes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB604
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
The Act creates a program in HECC to provide support for certain students. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Establishes the Strong Start Program within the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing support to first-year and underrepresented students at public universities in this state. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB605
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/18/25
Engrossed
4/24/25
Refer
4/24/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
Passed
6/17/25
Chaptered
6/23/25
Passed
6/23/25
Stops people who provide medical services to patients from telling a credit bureau that a patient owes a debt, or the amount of the debt. Allows a person to sue a person who breaks this law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB606
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act would add certain health care workers to those whose stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' comp claim is compensable. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom certain stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' compensation claim is compensable as an occupational disease.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB607
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed for mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state. Requires the authority to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB608
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to study ways to improve services for people with complex medical needs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study the feasibility of implementing a new classification for case managers who serve people with acute behavioral health needs. Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study funding pathways for providing behavioral health services to seniors and persons with physical disabilities, a shared functional needs assessment tool and a process for incorporating housing benefit eligibility applications into the Oregon Eligibility (ONE) system. Directs the Department of Human Services to develop a data-driven argument for expanding the service priority levels for which an individual may be eligible for medical assistance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB609
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act tells OHA and CCOs to set minimum rates for reimbursing certain health care providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB61
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act limits when OHA may claw back moneys paid to Medicaid providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements paid on claims in the medical assistance program if the provider can verify that the patient visit occurred or the service or item was provided. Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements based on a sample of a provider's claims unless a similar error rate is found in a sample of at least 15 percent of the provider's claims. Applies to audits of claims for the reimbursement of items or services provided on or after January 1, 2019, if the claims have not been fully adjudicated. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB610
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
5/13/25
Engrossed
5/19/25
Refer
5/21/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
Passed
6/9/25
Chaptered
6/20/25
Passed
6/20/25
The Act makes changes to the OAC's and OHA's duties regarding BHRNs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study funding for substance use services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020). 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.] Modifies the duties and composition of the Oversight and Accountability Council. Transfers to the Oregon Health Authority the responsibility to administer, in consulation with the council, a grant program for Behavioral Health Resource Networks. Repeals the requirement for the authority to establish a Behavioral Health Resource Network statewide telephone hotline.