Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 58)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2856
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells ODVA to give grants to offset costs that groups incur but did not expect to incur in repurposing buildings for veteran housing. Creates a fund with lottery moneys to fund the grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to offset unexpected increases in costs in repurposing buildings for veteran housing and housing programs. Establishes the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund. Directs the State Treasury to transfer, each biennium, moneys from the Veterans' Department of Veterans' Affairs Dedicated Lottery Fund to the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund to be used by the department to provide the grants.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2857
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes a program in ODEM to give subsidies to some air ambulance bases to help them pay for their costs of operation. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Establishes an air ambulance readiness program in the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to provide subsidies to qualified air ambulance bases to offset the costs of operating air ambulances and air ambulance services. Requires the department to biennially report on the program to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2858
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
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.] Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to make grants for public safety projects. 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. Delays the date on which responsibility for management of the emergency notification system is transferred to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2859
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells ODVA and the Governor to ask for funds for ODVA at a certain level and tells the legislature to fund ODVA at that level. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request a certain level of funding. Requires the Governor's budget to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Requires the Legislative Assembly to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Provides that the requirements do not apply under certain negative economic conditions.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2860
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2861
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2862
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would create a loan program to support small businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Program to be administered by the Oregon Business Development Department for the purpose of making interest-only loans to allow businesses with not more than 50 employees to hire new employees. Requires the payment of principal plus penalty for failure to hire and retain employees for at least two years. Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Fund for the purpose of administering the loan program. Appropriates moneys to the department for the purpose of administering the loan program and loan fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2863
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act exempts gain on the sale of certain property in a low-income census tract from tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows a subtraction from federal taxable income of the gain from the sale of opportunity zone property, defined as property in a low-income census tract developed for affordable housing and held for a stated period of time. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2864
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2865
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act gives money to certain state agencies. The Act states that the money may be spent for certain purposes related to fire protection, OrSAP and ODEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2866
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes changes to laws about collective bargaining with respect to public employees who are not members of a union. The Act would change how those employees will make payments to the union. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Permits employees who are not union members to voluntarily consent to make in-lieu-of-dues payment to a labor organization for the organization's representation of the nonmember employees in employment relations with a public employer. Prohibits compulsory payments to labor organizations by nonmember employees. Makes entering into an agreement that requires the nonmember employees of a labor organization to make payments to the labor organization an unfair labor practice.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2867
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes ODVA do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2868
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says a court has to look at, when the court determines aggravation, if a person did the crime in an emergency when the court sentences the person. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs a court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of a criminal sentence, evidence that the defendant committed the crime during an emergency, an evacuation while an emergency was in effect or within one year after an emergency ceases, provided that the emergency is related to a natural disaster and the defendant took advantage of circumstances related to the emergency, evacuation or recovery from the emergency. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to include in the rules concerning sentencing departure factors the commission of a crime under such circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2869
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires a school district to keep money paid for a public contract for services until the contract is complete. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires school districts to withhold retainage when entering into a public contract to provide services required by state or federal law.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2870
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a panel of eight people to look into false campaign comments. Creates penalties for someone who makes false campaign comments. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Creates the Oregon Campaign Review Commission to investigate complaints of false statements made by candidates or political committees. Establishes sanctions for violations of false statement law. Applies to campaigns conducted for elections held on or after January 1, 2026.