Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 82)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3216
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/10/25
Refer
3/10/25
Tells a state agency to study how to make a system to report data on payments of wage levels needed for state projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: Tells people who must pay a certain wage to workers who do construction on public works to send to a state agency reports about what they pay the workers. Says that the reports must be done online at a particular website. Tells the state agency to create the website and make it ready for use by the beginning of 2027. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8).] [Requires contractors and subcontractors that must report compliance with the prevailing wage laws to submit certified statements and reports showing compliance to the Bureau of Labor and Industries by means of a centralized system and electronic portal. Directs the bureau to develop and implement an appropriate electronic portal. Lists specifications for and required elements of the electronic portal.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.] Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study the feasibility of developing a centralized system for reporting compliance with prevailing wage payment requirements. Specifies what the study should consider and requires the bureau to report the results of the study to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3217
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Gives students money for school, creates standards for a high school degree, takes away the cap for virtual schools and allows students to go to school in other districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing options in education to certain students of this state. Restricts the percentage of students from each school district who may enroll in the program for the first 10 years. Requires a student to demonstrate proficiency in specified Essential Learning Skills prior to the student being awarded a high school diploma or a modified diploma. Applies to diplomas awarded on or after January 1, 2026. Removes the requirement that a student must receive approval from the student's resident school district before enrolling in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the school district if a specified percentage of students in the school district already are enrolled in virtual public charter schools that are not sponsored by the school district. Establishes the open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in a nonresident school district with the consent of the receiving school district. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3218
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
Report Pass
5/14/25
Enrolled
5/20/25
Passed
5/28/25
Chaptered
6/11/25
Passed
6/11/25
The Act tells LCIS and DOE to look at making the Tribal Attendance Promising Practices grant program bigger. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires the Commission on Indian Services and the Department of Education to study the Tribal Attendance Promising Practices grant program. Directs the commission and the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3219
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
The Act gives moneys to HECC for the Oregon Hazards Lab at UO. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3220
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells the OSBN to make a rule about the ratio of students to faculty in some parts of nursing education programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3221
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
Prohibits the use of the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" unless a health clinic registers with OHA. Makes an urgent care center that is registered with OHA meet certain standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Requires an urgent care center in this state to be registered with OHA and meet certain standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).] [Requires a person or government unit that is establishing or operating an urgent care center in this state to register the urgent care center with the Oregon Health Authority. Defines "urgent care center."] [Requires certain minimum health service capabilities for an urgent care center. Requires certain information to be posted on-site of an urgent care center. Requires an urgent care center to provide a patient with a clinical summary and copy of medical notes made during a visit. Requires the authority to establish procedures for filing a complaint as to an urgent care center.] Prohibits a person or government entity that is not registered with the Oregon Health Authority from using a business or trade name with the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" or from holding itself out using the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" in any external sign or advertisement. Directs the authority to adopt a process and criteria for registering an urgent care center in this state. Makes registration optional. Requires an urgent care center that is registered in this state to provide certain information to the authority, have minimum health service capabilities and meet certain requirements. Defines "urgent care center" and "specialty urgent care center" for the purposes of the Act. Directs the authority to establish and maintain a website to provide the public information on urgent care centers registered in this state. [Directs the authority to conduct a study on incentives for urgent care centers to accept all patients.] Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3222
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells ODE to update a survey on the tests given to students in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.4). Directs the Department of Education to review and update information collected for a survey of the academic assessments administered to the students of this state by school districts. Requires the department to submit an updated report to the State Board of Education and to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than December 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3223
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act limits when a type of pharmacy can send prescription drugs to another type of pharmacy. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs. Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from requiring a pharmacy to receive transfers of prescription drugs intended for a patient from a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3224
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
Passed
6/11/25
Chaptered
6/23/25
Passed
6/23/25
The Act tells DHS to study some aspects of background checks and make reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). [Digest: The Act tells DHS to study statutes about background checks and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).] Requires the Department of Human Services to review the statutes of this state to identify all instances of required background checks[,] under certain statutes and similarities and differences in the different background checks, and report on options to consolidate and reduce the number of different background checks for similar purposes or programs. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026. Requires the department to study options for providing that a person does not need to undergo another background check conducted by a state agency for certain purposes if the person has already passed a background check conducted by a state agency in the previous 12 months. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than June 30, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3225
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Says what a doctor must do to be among the majority of the directors of, or to hold most of the shares of, a company that is formed to practice medicine. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Specifies qualifications for a physician who is among the majority of the shareholders or directors of a professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3226
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
Passed
6/11/25
Chaptered
6/23/25
Passed
6/23/25
Says that if a person that takes claims from drug stores for payment under a health plan signs a contract with another person that acts for the drug stores, the person must still obey the laws that govern pharmacy benefit managers. Says that the person that acts for or signs contracts for the drug stores must get a license to do that business. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.0). Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations. Requires pharmacy services administrative organizations to register with the Department of Consumer and Business Services as third party administrators. Specifies exemptions from the registration requirement. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3227
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would stop companies that give medical care from telling their workers that they cannot work for someone else, say that the company is bad or speak out about the company's bad acts. Stops companies from punishing those who speak out. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Voids noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements nondisparagement agreements and nonsolicitation agreements between certain business entities and medical professionals, with specified exceptions, and prohibits the business entities from retaliating against the medical professional for violating the void agreements. Punishes retaliations as an unlawful employment practice. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3228
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/21/25
Refer
4/21/25
Makes a council assess why public bodies are not able to get cybersecurity insurance. Tells the council to submit a report on its findings. Creates a fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9). [Digest: Makes a council study the use of cybersecurity insurance for public bodies. Tells the council to submit a report on its findings. Creates a fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0).] [Requires the Oregon Cybersecurity Advisory Council to study the use of cybersecurity insurance for public bodies.] Directs the Oregon Cybersecurity Advisory Council to conduct assessments to address the reasons why public bodies in this state are unable to meet cybersecurity insurance coverage requirements. Directs the advisory council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to information management and technology not later than [December 31, 2025] September 30, 2026. Establishes the Oregon Cybersecurity Resilience Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to assist public bodies with cybersecurity insurance requirements and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, training and incidents. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3229
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act makes changes to the OHP provider enrollment process. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expedite the process for enrolling behavioral health providers in the medical assistance program and study the feasibility of developing and implementing an automated, online tool for behavioral health provider enrollment applications. Requires a coordinated care organization to render a decision on a behavioral health provider's request to contract with the coordinated care organization within 30 days after the coordinated care organization receives a complete application and to reimburse a contracted behavioral health provider retroactively to the date that the provider submitted a complete enrollment application to the authority that resulted in the assignment of a provider identification number. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3230
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
Makes the State Chief Information Officer contract with a third party for a study of how the state uses information and technology and advise on how to improve. Makes the officer submit a report. The Act takes effect on its passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires the State Chief Information Officer to contract for an independent assessment of the information technology environment within the executive department, to include recommendations for improving performance, operations and resources. Directs the officer to submit a report on the results of the assessment and recommendations to the Governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology and any other appropriate legislative committee. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.