Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 59)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2871
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells a business that gets over 20 percent of its receipts from public contracts to list amount with tax return. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Requires businesses receiving more than 20 percent of gross receipts from public contracts to include a statement of the amount received with a tax return filed with the Department of Revenue. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2872
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act requires proof that workers in building trades have licenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires that a building permit must show a contractor's Construction Contractors Board license number if the contractor is known. Requires an inspector performing building code inspection as part of a building inspection program, or for the purpose of enforcing a municipal ordinance, to require that persons engaged in regulated building activity present evidence of compliance with applicable licensing, registration or certification requirements. Requires that a municipality ensure that a person issued a permit for work requiring a Construction Contractors Board license holds a Construction Contractors Board license. Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to inform the Construction Contractors Board when the director has reason to believe that a person is engaging, has engaged or plans to engage in a violation of laws regarding licensing and endorsement of construction contractors.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2873
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells the HECC to create an Oregon work study pilot program. Ends the program on January 2, 2029. Tells the HECC to study college students' access to basic needs. Tells the HECC to submit a report on the findings of the study. Declares an emergency and becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish an Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2029. Directs the commission to conduct a study on post-secondary students' access to basic necessities and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2874
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. It limits the preference to those who apply within ten years of leaving the U.S. Armed Forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). 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. Limits eligibility for preference to a veteran who applies for a position within 10 years of discharge or release from service in the Armed Forces of the United States. 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 to not 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2875
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Authorizes school districts to have maker spaces. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Authorizes district school boards to take specified actions to facilitate the creation and use of maker spaces.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2876
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make all counties have a nonpartisan board of commissioners unless voters in the county choose not to do so. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Provides that the governing body of a county shall be a nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by the people of the county unless county voters choose not to do so. Requires a county to provide by ordinance or resolution for the structure of the board, the board districts, if any, the election procedures and compensation for the commissioners if the county voters have not chosen to exempt the county from the provisions. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2877
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the construction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials industries. Permits the department to use moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to develop, implement and maintain the pilot programs. Requires a report to the Legislative Assembly regarding the status of the pilot programs by September 15, 2026. Sunsets pilot programs on December 31, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2878
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to create a program for sequestering carbon. The Act allows the State Treasurer to issue certain bonds for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under Article XI-E of the Oregon Constitution in an amount that produces $500 million in net proceeds for a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program. Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2879
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Creates a task force to study how a major seismic event will affect children and to prepare to meet the needs of children after such an event. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Task Force on Seismic Event Preparation. Directs the task force to conduct a study regarding the impacts of a major seismic event on children and to identify methods for preparing schools and communities to meet the needs of children following a major seismic event. Directs the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets task force on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2880
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act allows an agency to give grants to some cities for public transit projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to certain small cities for the purposes of studying, developing and capitalizing public transit systems. Appropriates moneys to the department for the grant program.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2881
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that the Governor has to interview at least one person who is part of a minority group when naming a person to the Port of Portland board. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Governor to interview at least one candidate from an underserved racial, ethnic or minority population when making an appointment to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2882
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the ACLB to start a program and give grants to appraisers who are licensed or certified. The new law ends after two years. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Directs the Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to establish a program to award grants to state certified appraisers and state licensed appraisers to whom the board issues a certificate or license on or after January 1, 2026. Directs the board to issue temporary certificates and licenses to engage in real estate appraisal activity. Sunsets on January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2883
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act makes DLCD report on limiting tech towers' impact on views. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to conduct a study on methods to mitigate the impact of technology support structures on the aesthetics of certain areas. Requires the department to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use by September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2884
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells an agency to annually assess the effects of rules about hatchery fish that return to hatcheries. The Act tells the agency to report on what the agency learns. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to annually assess the effects of provisions related to the disposition of hatchery-produced fish carcasses and report the results to committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2885
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells state agencies to make an electronic system to manage emergency volunteers in this state. The Act puts ODEM in charge of maintaining the system. The Act tells ODEM to start a workgroup about volunteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement the creation of an interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency. Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer and maintain the system, conduct outreach and training regarding the system, coordinate a workgroup for periodic review of the system and coordinate a workgroup to develop recommendations regarding statewide volunteerism. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop policies and procedures to incorporate the system into the activities and duties of the OregonServes Commission.