| SB1047 | Veto | This Act makes the county and OWRD speed review of permits for specific projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.1). Requires Curry County and the Water Resources Department to expedite review of applications for use on specified lands. [Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-29
Motion to lay bill, together with Governor's message, on the table carried. Ayes, 14; Nays, 8--Anderson, Bonham, Girod, Nash, Robinson, Smith DB, Starr, Weber; Excused, 8--Gelser Blouin, Gorsek, Hayden, Lieber, Linthicum, McLane, Prozanski, Thatcher. |
| SB976 | Veto | The Act says a person might be allowed to check and see if cows are pregnant, even if the person is not a veterinarian. Allows the ODA to adopt rules to explain when this is okay. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Allows an individual to verify wheth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-29
Motion to lay bill, together with Governor's message, on the table carried. Ayes, 14; Nays, 8--Anderson, Bonham, Girod, Nash, Robinson, Smith DB, Starr, Weber; Excused, 8--Gelser Blouin, Gorsek, Hayden, Lieber, Linthicum, McLane, Prozanski, Thatcher. |
| HB3940 | Pass | The Act raises and moves money to pay for wildfire costs. The Act makes certain changes to laws related to forests and fire protection. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). [Places a surcharge on sales of beverage containers for purposes of wildfire pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 581, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB3410 | Pass | Makes changes to an Act that keeps people from running both a company that does not do medical work and another entity that does medical work. Goes into effect right away. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Amends portions of an Act that restricts man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 572, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB3544 | Pass | The Act creates a standard process for contested cases about the use of water. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes uniform processes for hearing contested case proceedings relating to the use of water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 575, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB5006 | Pass | The Act makes budget changes for certain state agencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). [Digest: The Act budgets money for the Emergency Board. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2).] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Emergency Board for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 628, (2025 Laws): Effective date August 7, 2025. |
| SB1061 | Pass | The Act requires the creation of a lumber grading training program. The Act requires DCBS to create a process for certain people to obtain lumber from those who have gone through the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). Requires the Director of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| SB5530 | Pass | The Act makes a budget for certain lottery moneys and for moneys in certain accounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Maintains and reserves lottery revenues available to benefit public purposes during the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, in the Ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, August 7, 2025. |
| HB2411 | Pass | The Act would allow the state to aid sponsors with the financing of industrial land projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 566, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB3794 | Pass | This Act creates the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley. Directs the task force to submit a report to the interi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 579, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB3824 | Pass | The Act makes some changes to the laws that govern physical therapy in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). [Authorizes a physical therapist to prescribe durable medical equipment. Authorizes a physical therapist to administer vaccines to sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 627, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB5020 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Long Term Care Ombudsman for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 615, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 31, 2025. |
| HB2508 | Pass | Directs ODE to create and use a method for electronic student data. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a standardized method to be used by school districts, education service districts and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 567, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB3589 | Pass | This Act requires OHCS to focus on senior housing and sweeps moneys from tax deferrals for such housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative. Tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 576, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB3630 | Pass | The Act would make it so estates would not pay estate tax for farm, forestry or fishing interests that are owned by trusts and businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 577, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB2688 | Pass | Makes a certain wage apply to custom work done off-site but for a particular public works project. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 612, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB5011 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 584, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| SB296 | Pass | The Act tells DHS, OHA and OHCS to take actions designed to improve hospital discharges. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study ways to expedite the eligibility determinatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, July 31, 2025. |
| HB3942 | Pass | Tells OHA to create a fast process for the issuance of licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: Tells OHA and DHS to create a fast process for issuing licenses for health care facilities. (Flesch Readability Sco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 582, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB2803 | Pass | The Act increases fees related to water. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Increases certain fees related to water. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 570, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB3243 | Pass | 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. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 614, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| SB5531 | Pass | The Act governs lottery bonds. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Modifies the amount and purposes of lottery bonds authorized to be issued for specified state agencies. Authorizes the issuance of various other lottery bonds. Establishes funds, or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, August 7, 2025. |
| SB960 | Pass | The Act makes changes to the law that are related to budget decisions. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act gives money to the CJC for the Organized Retail Theft Grant Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).] [Appropriates moneys to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, August 7, 2025. |
| SB5541 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for certain biennial expenses. Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, August 7, 2025. |
| HB5015 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Bureau of Labor and Industries for biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Mis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 585, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| SB1173 | Pass | The Act says that some product liability claims may not be filed against some entities that provide products as part of health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act says that some product liability claims may not be filed against a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, September 26, 2025. |
| HB2548 | Pass | The Act would tell PSU to conduct a study on farmworker labor standards. Tells HECC to submit reports on the findings. The Act would tell LPRO to conduct a study on labor standards in the agricultural industry. Tells LPRO to submit findings to the le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 568, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB3746 | Pass | For condos and homes in an HOA, this Act changes how construction defects and damages are handled. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Reduces the statute of limitations for construction defect actions [for units in] by a planned community or condomini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 578, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB2351 | Pass | The Act would make some changes to how a business reports data from certain state benefit programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Makes changes to certain statutes related to the release and reporting of businesses' economic development informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 565, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB2614 | Pass | The Act makes various changes to the OPDC. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to submit an agency request budget to the Oregon Department of Administrative S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 569, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB2024 | Pass | The Act tells OHA to give grants to some entities to help them hire and keep behavioral health care workers. The Act also makes changes to laws to improve the safety of workers in certain mental health care and SUD treatment settings. (Flesch Readabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 561, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| SB844 | Pass | The Act changes some laws about labs, overdose reports and terms about the environment. The Act makes a new law to keep some information secret. The Act also lets OHA have more contracts for school-based health centers. (Flesch Readability Score: 68....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| HB2271 | Pass | The Act would give a credit off their UI taxes to employers whose rate for 2025 is less than their rate for the prior year by at least two and a half percentage points. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). [Digest: The Act would give a credit against UI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 563, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB5031 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Public Defense Commission for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 588, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| SB837 | Pass | The Act changes the health care volunteer registry known as SERV-OR. The Act allows more types of people to join and allows for the use of volunteers outside of a declared emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Modifies laws governing the emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| SB739 | Pass | The Act changes oversight laws for certain types of long term care facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation. Prohibits exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| SB5506 | Pass | The Act sets a budget for capital construction by the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Limits for the six-year period beginning July 1, 2025, payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, August 7, 2025. |
| HB5025 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Emergency Board for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 587, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB2342 | Pass | The Act increases fees under the wildlife laws. The Act allows an agency to create a new fee. The Act creates a new subaccount. The Act increases fees under commercial fishing laws. The Act takes effect 91 days after session ends. (Flesch Readability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 564, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025. |
| HB5016 | Pass | The Act creates agency budgets. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Legislative Administration Committee, Legislative Assembly, Legislative Counsel Committee, Legislative Fiscal Officer, Legislative Reve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 586, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB3865 | Pass | Says that a person may not make a sales call by voice or text unless the person follows certain rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7). Prohibits as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act a person's initiating a telephone solici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 580, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| HB2005 | Pass | Changes the laws on when people who are mentally ill can be made to get treatment. Changes the laws on what happens to a person charged with a crime who is not fit to go to trial. Changes the laws on some facility siting. (Flesch Readability Score: 8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 559, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB2712 | Pass | The Act gives judges more pay. The Act says that the Chief Justice can take actions and make rules to promote accountability of judges and make justice services fair and accessible. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Increases the salaries of state co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 613, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 31, 2025. |
| HB3474 | Pass | Tells the SOS to study changes to the U.S. Postal Service. Tells the SOS to discuss how any changes would impact Oregon voting laws. Requires the SOS to report to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Requires the Secretary of State to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 573, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026. |
| SB136 | Pass | The Act tells DHS when it may impose sanctions on a licensed I/DD services provider. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). [Digest: The Act tells DHS when it may revoke the license of an I/DD services provider. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).] [Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| HB5024 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 616, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 31, 2025. |
| SB842 | Pass | Raises for hospitals the annual license fees to be paid to OHA. Repeals fees for compliance actions. Allows assessment of a late fee for a hospital that fails to pay a renewal license fee. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.9). Increases for hospitals the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, October 1, 2025. |
| SB793 | Pass | This Act directs the Director of the Department of State Lands to establish fees and rates for easements on state land that is located in the sea. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). [Digest: This Act directs the Director of the Department of State Lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Effective date, July 31, 2025. |
| HB2015 | Pass | The Act tells OHA to make new rules and study certain residential mental health settings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 560, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
| HB5004 | Pass | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for certain biennial expenses. Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-08-13
Chapter 583, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 24, 2025. |
