| OR | SB753 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to work with others to plan and pay for rail. Every two years, ODOT must report to the JCT about the plans and progress for rail transportation. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4). Directs the Department of Transportation to work wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB886 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT that it should focus on asks to build power lines or other systems on roads when those asks are from places where energy is made from sources that can be replaced, like sunlight, wind or water. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB925 | Intro
25% | The Act says that the OTC may not toll I-205. (Flesch Readability Score: 100). Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB627 | Intro
25% | The Act states that vehicles remain registered until the owner changes. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Provides that vehicle registration for most vehicles will be ownership registration and owners must pay a one-time fee instead of a biennial fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB689 | Intro
25% | The Act creates a new agency to govern rail in Oregon. The new agency name is the Oregon Rail Department. Transfers duties of governing rail from ODOT to the ORD. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.9). Creates the Oregon Rail Department. Creates the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2159 | Intro
25% | The Act says that ODOT must study speed bumps. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Requires the Department of Transportation to study the development of uniform standards for speed bump height and markings. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2659 | Intro
25% | The Act creates the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board. This board will take over the rules for car dealers and people who take apart cars from ODOT. The changes will begin January 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Establishes the Oregon Vehicle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2232 | Intro
25% | The Act says SPRD may adopt rules about ATV equipment and noise. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies. Declares an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| OR | HB2706 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to give car dealers at least two days' notice before going to see the dealer's records. The Act makes some exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). Directs the Department of Transportation to provide two days' notice to vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3050 | Intro
25% | The Act would have Business Oregon set up a loan and grant program for Oregon port projects. The program would be run by the infrastructure finance section of the department. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Business Development D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2598 | Intro
25% | The Act makes clear that a light rail car or monorail are not commercial motor vehicles. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Clarifies that a rail fixed guideway system is not a commercial motor vehicle for the purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2161 | Intro
25% | The Act says that the state must give Hall Blvd. to the City of Tigard to look after and a part of the Hood River Highway to the City of Hood River to look after. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Transfers jurisdiction of Hall Boulevard to the City ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3209 | Intro
25% | The Act adds extra fees to the registration fees and of some vehicles, like campers or motor homes, and an extra fee for RV trip permits. The money taken in from this fee would go into a new fund. This fund would help the Department of Transportation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB357 | Intro
25% | The Act allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB715 | Intro
25% | The Act creates a high speed rail task force. Tells the task force to study, research and make reports about high speed rail in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 88.9). Creates the Cascadia High Speed Rail Task Force. Specifies the membership of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2990 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to give a report on how they are changing the written test for Class C driver licenses. They must send this report to the JCT by September 15, 2026. The law will start 91 days after the legislature finishes its session. (Flesch Rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2716 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to tell car dealers if ODOT finds missing or incomplete papers or fees when the dealer tries to register or title a car. ODOT must also give the dealer a chance to fix the problem. The Act also tells ODOT to study how long it takes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SJM5 | Intro
25% | The measure concerns timber. The measure asks the President and Congress to take certain actions. The measure explains that revenues from timber have declined. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Urges the President and Congress to pursue Oregon and Ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2722 | Intro
25% | The Act says ODOT must work with others to help with some of ODOT's responsibilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with any qualified provider to assist the department with certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2931 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to laws about the I-5 bridge project and tolling. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Modifies, adds and repeals laws related to the Interstate 5 bridge replacement project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2945 | Intro
25% | This Act makes new goals and laws for buying zero-emission school buses. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Establishes the state policy on the purchase of new zero-emission school buses. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt rules ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2102 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to study car crash rates at big games or concerts compared to car crash rates when the events are not happening. The Act tells ODOT to report the results of the study to the JCT and give the JCT ideas about how to stop car crashes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2797 | Intro
25% | The Act adds two people to the board of the Port of Morrow who are to be appointed by the Governor from the trade sector. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Adds two commissioners to the board of the Port of Morrow. Provides that the additional commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB416 | Intro
25% | The Act directs ODOT to issue mobile driver licenses to those who want them and pay a fee. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of Transportation to provide optional mobile driver licenses, driver permits and identification cards....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2683 | Intro
25% | The Act says a person can ask ODOT to add a note on their reg card, driver license, permit or ID card. The note will let police officers know that the person has a disability that makes it hard to communicate with the officer. To do this, the person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB636 | Intro
25% | The Act would require the Department of Transportation to study the creation of a road usage charge to ensure that electric and hybrid vehicles pay their fair share for the wear they cause to Oregon highways. The Act would require a report to be turn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2663 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a car dealer may give a short-term permit for a car that does not have proof it is following pollution control rules at the time the car is sold. The car dealer must tell the buyer that ODOT will not give the buyer a license plate a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB839 | Intro
25% | The Act changes laws about vehicles people use to move goods and other people from place to place. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Modifies laws that regulate the operation of commercial vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2574 | Intro
25% | This Act changes Willamette Falls Locks Authority laws and says that bonds can be issued. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Modifies provisions related to finances, public contracting authority and composition of Willamette Falls Locks Authority. Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB508 | Intro
25% | Tells an insurer that it may not use a device or technology to track where a person is when the person is driving. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB418 | Intro
25% | TriMet has to change its district boundaries and leave out certain areas. This rule will not go to a vote. People living in those areas should check if the change will mean new taxes for them. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.5). Requires the mass trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3233 | Intro
25% | 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). Directs the Department of Transportation to work with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2721 | Intro
25% | The Act would allow a city or county to impose a public transit surcharge on top of any parking fine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes a city or county to impose a public transit incentive surcharge on the amount of any fine for violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB417 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to billboard laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Modifies provisions related to relocating or reconstructing outdoor advertising signs. Specifies acceptable documentation to prove landowner consent when applying for an outdo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2725 | Intro
25% | The Act would limit the kind of port district that must be a party to a contract in the strategic investment program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Limits the kind of port districts that are required to be involved in strategic investment program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3155 | Intro
25% | The Act allows ATVs on the roads if the ATV meets certain requirements and does not go on the freeway. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Permits a person to operate Class I, Class III and Class IV all-terrain vehicles on highways that are not interst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB458 | Intro
25% | The Act requires ODOT to study a section of U.S. Highway 30. ODOT must make a report of the study and share its findings with the JCT. ODOT may start work on the study 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2671 | Intro
25% | The Act permits the testing of automated vehicles on highways of this state. Directs ODOT to adopt rules to carry out the Act. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Permits the testing of highly automated vehicles on highways of this state under certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2153 | Intro
25% | The Act would raise and index the tax rate on fuel used in aircraft with turbine engines. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.0). Increases the tax on aircraft fuel usable in aircraft operated by turbine engines and adjusts the rate biennially according to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2156 | Intro
25% | The Act says that ODOT must study speed bumps. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Requires the Department of Transportation to study the development of uniform standards for speed bump height and markings. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2660 | Intro
25% | The Act says vehicle dealers may issue trip permits for RVs bought by those who live out of Oregon and plan to title the RV in a state that is not Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Allows vehicle dealers to issue recreational vehicle trip per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2155 | Intro
25% | The Act says that ODOT must study speed bumps. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Requires the Department of Transportation to study the development of uniform standards for speed bump height and markings. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB792 | Intro
25% | The Act allows ODAV to establish fees by rule. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Authorizes the Oregon Department of Aviation to establish by rule fees related to airports and aircraft. Provides for adjustment of fees for inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2158 | Intro
25% | The Act says that ODOT must study ways to fund the transportation system in this state. The Act says ODOT must report to the JCT. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to transportation fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2881 | Intro
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 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2739 | Intro
25% | The Act allows car owners to ask for a note on their vehicle reg card if they or a person driving the car has a difficult time with the English language. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Provides that a registered owner may request that the registra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2749 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to ODOT to give to the City of Portland to help design a bridge. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.4). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation for distribution to the City of Portland for the purpose of designing a bri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3122 | Intro
25% | The Act would tell the SPRD to work to enter an agreement with federal partners to create an access fee on a road in eastern Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to exercise good-faith efforts to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2718 | Intro
25% | The Act allows car dealers to turn in paperwork to the DMV in person. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Allows vehicle dealers to submit vehicle-related documents in person at a field office of the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB2154 | Intro
25% | The Act states that a county may designate a part of a county road as a safety corridor when that part of the road has a lot of bad car crashes. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Makes permanent the county safety corridor program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee |
