Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 57)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2841
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires that a higher learning school must offer a certain amount of credit hours taught by full-time employees. The Act sets the amount by academic year. The Act tells each school to give HECC certain information. The Act tells HECC to report on the requirement to the legislature each year. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.3). Requires each community college and public university to have at least 65 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees of the college or university during the 2026-2027 academic year and at least 75 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees every academic year thereafter. Requires each community college and public university to report annually to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission on compliance with the full-time employee requirement. Requires the commission to report annually to the Legislative Assembly on compliance with the full-time employee requirement by each community college and public university.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2842
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
The Act gives money to DAS to give out for programs for giving free childcare to people to do government business. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). [Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give out to expand a program for giving free childcare to people to do government business. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).] Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County for [expanding a program] programs for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the [program] programs. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2843
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a fund to assist veterans to apply for federal and state benefits and aid. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Veterans' Benefits Economic Development Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs to assist veterans and family members of veterans to apply for federal and state veterans' benefits and aid. Allocates lottery moneys to the fund. Sunsets January 2, 2035.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2844
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices relating to statewide coordination of emergency management. Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facilities and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for investments to improve statewide emergency preparedness. Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training. Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Directs the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management operations. Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans. Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county's emergency preparedness. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2845
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Makes many changes to ODVA laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). [Digest: Makes ODVA create more positions and hire staff. Makes ODVA create pilot programs on suicide prevention and workforce training. Makes ODOT accept an ID issued by USDOD or USDVA. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] [Requires an appropriation to] Declares that it is the goal of the Legislative Assembly to fund the Department of Veterans' Affairs [from the General Fund to be] in an amount that is not less than $10,000,000, from the General Fund, in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation. Requires the Director of Veterans' Affairs to add additional full-time positions within the department. Creates in the department the position of Veterans Employment Coordinator. [Allows the director to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor.] Requires the director [and deputy director] to be a veteran who has received a discharge or release under other than dishonorable conditions. Allows the director to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor. Directs the department to develop and implement one or more pilot programs for suicide prevention and workforce training and preparation. Allows moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to be used for the pilot programs. [Requires the Department of Transportation to accept, for issuing a driver license, an identification card issued by the United States Department of Defense or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.] Directs the director to distribute moneys appropriated for county veterans' service officer programs on a quarterly basis. Directs the department to provide a report on the quarterly distribution process. Changes who is allowed to request county veteran discharge records. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000, the cap on the individual grant amount that is allowed under the Veteran Educational Bridge Grant Program. Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to work with the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission and the Judicial Department to develop a plan for establishing and maintaining a veterans' court in each county or judicial district. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2846
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes ODVA create a program to provide loan and credit guarantees for veterans to refinance home mortgages. Creates a fund to pay for amounts due under a guarantee. Bans payments by ODVA other than from the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop a program under which the department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for the purpose of refinancing existing home mortgages on veterans' primary residences. Establishes the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the department. Prohibits the department from paying amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement from any source other than available funds in the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Provides that amounts due and payable under an agreement do not constitute a debt, or a lending of credit, of the state. Authorizes financial institutions to exercise rights against the security if there are insufficient available funds to pay amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to include in the Governor's budget request to the Legislative Assembly for each fiscal period amounts sufficient to permit the payment of amounts due on unpaid loan and credit guarantees for that fiscal period.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2847
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a new tax subtraction for start-up expenditures. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Creates a subtraction from taxable income for start-up expenditures. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2848
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells not for profit companies that get public money to obey open meetings and public records laws. Tells the companies that they must post a copy of the budget they expect to adopt on their websites. Tells the companies that they must agree to and cooperate with audits. Says that the company's directors, officers and employees must comply with government ethics standards. Takes effect on passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation's proposed annual budget to the corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit. Subjects members of a corporation's board of directors and officers and employees of a corporation to government ethics standards. Applies the provisions of the Act to corporations over a 15-year period, with required compliance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the corporation that comes from public funds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2849
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells DPSST to look at issues facing law enforcement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies. 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 House Bill HB2850
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires each member of the legislature to file a form with the OGEC. The Act requires that the form contain the name and salary of each of the member's relatives or members of the household who serve on the member's personal staff. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires a member of the Legislative Assembly who has a relative or a member of the household who receives a salary for serving on the member's personal legislative staff to file a statement with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission naming each relative or member of the household and stating the amount of the salary each relative or member of the household receives for serving on the member's personal legislative staff.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2851
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act changes a definition for two crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies the definition of "critical infrastructure" to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism in the first degree and domestic terrorism in the second degree.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2852
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to try to contract with bidders who agree to help with emergency readiness. The Act tells ODEM to start a program to certify such bidders. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Directs contracting agencies to give preference to a bidder or proposer who is certified by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management as an emergency preparedness partner. Directs the department to establish a program for certification of business organizations as emergency preparedness partners. Provides that organizations shall be certified if a minimum number of individuals in the organization complete the required training and meet other requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2853
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act replaces an old industrial siting program with a new program that allows for UGB growth. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses. Sunsets January 2, 2037. Sunsets 2011 program under which the Economic Recovery Review Council designated regionally significant industrial areas.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2854
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to make changes to the state building code that say which design features school facilities must have in a seismic zone. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt amendments to the state building code that mandate certain design features for new school facilities in a designated seismic hazard region. Specifies the design features. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2855
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the DSP to create a public exchange area. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of State Police to establish public exchange locations with certain requirements.