Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 55)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2811
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The Act establishes a program to provide a free book each month to certain children. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Establishes the Imagination Library of Oregon Program to provide a free book each month to eligible children, encourage children to develop a love of reading and learning and improve third-grade reading proficiency and high school graduation rates. Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to implement the program. Establishes the Oregon Imagination Library Account within the Department of Early Learning and Care Fund for purposes of funding the program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2812
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Engrossed
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
Report Pass
4/28/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Passed
5/12/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
Exempts some client health info that the PSRB has from disclosure to the public but allows for its release in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Exempts individually identifiable health information in the possession of the Psychiatric Security Review Board from disclosure under public records laws and allows for disclosure in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2813
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The Act creates a new fund related to ground water conservation. The Act puts money in the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.2). [Digest: The Act creates a new fund related to ground water conservation in Harney County. The Act puts money in the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3).] Establishes the [Harney] Groundwater Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Appropriates moneys for the [Harney] Groundwater Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2814
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/3/25
Report Pass
5/13/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/27/25
Chaptered
6/11/25
Passed
6/11/25
The Act allows DELC to waive some requirements for a certified child care facility. The Act directs ELC to adopt rules for the number and age of kids allowed at a registered family child care home. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Authorizes the Department of Early Learning and Care to waive certain requirements for certified child care facilities upon good cause shown and if the resulting circumstances protect the welfare of the children and the consumer interests of the parents of the children. Directs the Early Learning Council to define by rule the number of children per age group allowed at a registered family child care home. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2815
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
Engrossed
6/16/25
Refer
6/16/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Enrolled
6/19/25
Passed
7/17/25
The Act tells the DELC to create a statewide plan to support tribal children and tribal educators. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study options to support early learning and care for tribes. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).] [Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study options for supporting tribal early learning and care in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to early learning and care not later than September 15, 2026.] Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care, in consultation with the nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon, to develop and implement a statewide early learning and care plan for children eight years of age or younger who are Native American or Alaska Native and enrolled in early childhood care or education programs in this state. Requires the department to establish and administer a grant program to award moneys to the nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon for the purpose of implementing the objectives and strategies of the plan. Requires the department to establish an advisory committee called the Oregon Tribal Early Learning Alliance to advise the department on the development and implementation of the plan and grant program. Directs the Early Learning Council, in consultation with the department, to adopt rules necessary for the administration of the plan and grant program. Establishes the Tribal Early Learning Fund in the State Treasury. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for implementation of the plan and grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2816
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would extend three taxes on the privilege of harvesting forest products and set the new tax rates. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Extends certain taxes on the privilege of harvesting merchantable forest products on forestlands. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2817
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/24/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
4/29/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Passed
5/12/25
Chaptered
6/6/25
Passed
6/6/25
The Act removes permit closure of forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Eliminates the closure of forestland, due to fire danger, by permit closure.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2818
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to study potential changes to one of its programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the coordinated care organization quality incentive program administered by the authority. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2819
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Report Pass
6/6/25
Enrolled
6/16/25
Passed
7/17/25
The Act relates to fire protection. The Act allows citations on certain bases. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). Authorizes the State Forester or a person authorized by the State Forester to issue citations if there [are reasonable grounds] is probable cause to believe violations have occurred.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2820
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a public agency not to take an offer for a public contract from a not-for-profit company if the person who earns the most money at the company earns more than 50 times as much as the person who earns the least money. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1. Requires a contracting agency to disclose the prohibition in an advertisement or solicitation for the public contract and provide in the public contract that a failure to comply subjects the covered entity to a termination of the public contract and debarment or disqualification, as appropriate. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2821
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires the heads of businesses that receive at least $10 million in public funds over five years to file an SEI. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires directors and senior executives of businesses that receive $10 million or more in public moneys over a five-year period to file a statement of economic interest.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2822
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to study certain effects on wolf populations. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to submit a report on the effects on Oregon wolf populations of changes in certain protections for the gray wolf during the last 10 years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2823
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency that it can hire a lawyer to help with getting a patent for any invention someone makes while working or being a student at a public high school. Lets the agency share in or say it will not share in the ownership of the patent. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while employed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state. Permits the department to assume, assign, partake in or disclaim ownership of any patent that results from an invention under the terms of a contract or other agreement into which the department enters with faculty or staff, with students who have legal capacity to enter into contracts or with the legal guardians of students without legal capacity to enter into contracts and in accordance with rules the department adopts and other applicable law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2824
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires CCO drug outlets to give certain veterans a 7-day supply of a drug at no cost if the veteran cannot get the drug from the VA. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense a seven-day supply of a prescription drug to a veteran with a disability, at no cost to the veteran, if the veteran is unable to obtain the prescription drug through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2825
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act updates the laws about how public employers should give priority to veterans when hiring for jobs. If they choose not to hire a veteran, they have to write down their reasons in certain situations. If a veteran or disabled veteran thinks they were treated unfairly, they must first try to solve the problem with BOLI before they can take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position. Requires evidence of eligibility and disability to be provided at the time of application. Sets forth processes for granting one or more preferences. Allows a public employer to exercise discretion not to appoint a qualified veteran or disabled veteran to a civil service position based solely on the veteran's or disabled veteran's merits or qualification in the final stage of the selection process. Requires a public employer to provide written reasons for not appointing a veteran or disabled veteran to a position under certain circumstances. Requires an aggrieved veteran or disabled veteran to exhaust nonjudicial remedies with the Bureau of Labor and Industries before filing a civil action for an unlawful employment practice.