Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 83)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3231
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that the passenger rail plan needs to include ways to fix and improve train tracks and other important parts. It also has to help trains carry more passengers. The Department of Transportation must give updates on how the plan is going by December 31 every two years. All reports about passenger trains will be combined into one part of the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the passenger rail plan to include strategies for upgrading and improving railroad track, strategies related to infrastructure and boosting capacity and information about federal grants sought and received. Requires the Department of Transportation to provide status updates on the plan no later than December 31 of each even-numbered year. Consolidates reports on passenger rail into one section of law. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3232
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
Report Pass
5/15/25
Enrolled
5/21/25
Passed
5/28/25
Chaptered
6/11/25
Passed
6/11/25
The Act would ease one of the rules for an existing limited equity co-op to be able to claim the low income rental housing tax break. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Removes the eligibility requirement for the low income rental housing property tax exemption that property of a limited equity cooperative be constructed or converted after the local governing body adopts the exemption program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3233
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/10/25
Engrossed
4/17/25
Refer
4/21/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
The Act tells ODOT to team up with the State of Washington and Vancouver, B.C., to make plans for rail. Adds more to passenger rail plan. Expands biennial report on rail. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.9). [Digest: The Act tells ODOT to team up with the State of Washington and Vancouver, B.C., to make plans for rail. The Act tells ODOT to report every two years to the JCT. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).] Expands requirements for the passenger rail plan. Directs the Department of Transportation to submit quarterly reports on the performance of passenger rail to the Joint Committee on Transportation. Directs the Department of Transportation to work with the Washington State Department of Transportation and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to develop plans to operate and fund rail transportation. Directs the Department of Transportation to submit biennial reports on plans and shared regional approach to rail to the [interim committees of] Legislative Assembly [related to transportation]. Allows the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with the Washington State Department of Transportation and others to collaborate on developing shared objectives for rail. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3234
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Lets the Attorney General look into or sue a health insurer that breaks the law in certain ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Authorizes the Attorney General, at the Attorney General's own initiative, but in consultation and cooperation with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to investigate and bring an action against a health insurer or affiliate of a health insurer in a court of this state to enforce a violation of the antitrust laws of this state, to obtain damages, a civil penalty or restitution, and to enjoin an act or practice that constitutes a monopoly, a business combination in restraint of trade or commerce or a substantial reduction or elimination of competition or competitors within a region or market of this state, or that otherwise constitutes an unlawful trade practice. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3235
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
Tells a state agency to give money to people who support home buyers to build equity in their homes more quickly. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to give a grant to an organization to support first-time home buyers that purchase residential property to build equity ownership in the residential property through reduced interest rate loans and accelerated loan terms. Specifies qualifications for loan recipients. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3236
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/3/25
Refer
4/3/25
Refer
5/28/25
Refer
5/28/25
The Act makes changes to the tax credit for banks that lend for housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.8). [Digest: The Act makes changes to the tax credit for banks that lend for housing, to allow credit for loans for buyers. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7).] Expands purposes for the corporate excise tax credit allowed for affordable housing lending. [Establishes the Affordable Housing Lender Fund.] Allows a tax credit for contributions to [the] a qualified mortgage loan fund with the purpose of assisting certain home buyers. Allows credit for loans for preservation or rehabilitation of distressed properties without requiring typical rent reductions. Applies to loans made and tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3237
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support PSAP consolidation and upgrades. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets January 2, 2045.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3238
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Makes EIS do a study on the security of cyber assets and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the office of Enterprise Information Services to study cybersecurity. Directs the office to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to information management and technology not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3239
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
The Act gives funds to DHS, OHA and OSP to do programs about criminal records checks. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). [Digest: The Act gives funds to DHS and OSP to do programs about criminal records checks. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).] Appropriates moneys to and limits expenditures by the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of State Police for implementation of programs related to criminal records checks, including the Rap Back program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3240
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells ODEM to develop staging areas for emergency response in the state. The Act sets up a committee to give advice to ODEM about the staging areas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Establishes the Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for the implementation of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates an advisory committee within the department to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from the fund.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3241
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act allows some events on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3242
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Enrolled
5/13/25
Passed
5/22/25
Chaptered
6/11/25
Passed
6/11/25
This Act tells a health insurer to pay a health care provider in the same way it would pay them if they were in-network during a certain time and in some situations. Tells the provider to pay back the money sometimes. Tells insurers to tell providers that their application is incomplete in certain circumstances. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). [Digest: This Act tells a health insurer to pay a health care provider in the same way it would pay if they were in-network during a certain time and in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period. Requires repayment by the provider group if the provider does not meet credentialing criteria or submit a complete application. Establishes a notification process of an incomplete application for the purpose of determining repayments. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3243
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
Report Pass
6/19/25
Engrossed
6/23/25
Refer
6/23/25
Report Pass
6/24/25
Enrolled
6/24/25
Passed
7/31/25
Tells ambulance service providers not to balance bill some patients and makes them report local rates to DCBS. Makes some rules about health insurance for ambulance services. Tells DCBS to make a new database of local rates and allows for penalties. Tells DCBS to submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan reimbursement of ambulance services. Requires ground ambulance services to submit established local rates to the Department of Consumer and Business Services. Establishes a database of local rates for ambulance services and allows for penalties to be imposed for violations. Requires the department to submit a report on the implementation of this Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3244
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act changes how air pollution is tested at a place that burns solid waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.5). Replaces the requirement that an owner or operator of a municipal solid waste incinerator conduct continuous monitoring or sampling of specified air contaminants with a requirement that the monitoring or sampling be conducted annually. Modifies the time for submission and implementation of a monitoring or sampling plan. Provides that the Department of Environmental Quality may modify the plan. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB3245
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act tells OHA to study how to calculate a CCO's global budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to create a method for calculating a CCO's global budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).] Directs the Oregon Health Authority to [develop] study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.