| OR | SB641 | Intro
25% | This Act stops China or Chinese companies from getting farmland. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits China or entities under the jurisdiction of China from buying or leasing farmlands. .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | HB2676 | Intro
25% | The Act makes Oregon join a compact to let dentists and dental hygienists from other states work in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Permits the Oregon Board of Dentistry to dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| OR | SB658 | Intro
25% | The Act says that if a veteran applies for a job and has the right skills, the employer must interview them. If a veteran doesn't get the job, the employer has to send them a notice telling them why. The law also allows veterans to take legal action....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | SB668 | Intro
25% | The Act allows Oregon veterans who are 80 percent disabled not to have to pay costs for certain college classes. The Act includes the spouse and child of those disabled veterans. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | SB622 | Intro
25% | The Act would make it so that employers do not have to pay unemployment taxes on the wages of noncitizens who work here on H-2A visas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB615 | Intro
25% | The Act creates a way to charge and sentence a person who causes permanent injury to another. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Establishes a procedure for charging an aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when the defen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SJM2 | Intro
25% | Urges Congress to pass a law about crime victims. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Urges Congress to enact legislation alleviating the funding crisis in the Crime Victims Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB665 | Intro
25% | The Act says that public bodies may not keep money from certain fines or civil penalties. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires public bodies to transfer moneys deriving from certain fines and civil penalties to the General Fund for general gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB380 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a new exemption against Oregon estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax. Phases out the availability of the exemption based on the size of the estate. Applies to the es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB648 | Intro
25% | The Act would match the estate tax exemption to the federal amount. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB1005 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a private entity may swipe a driver's license to confirm a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB13 | Intro
25% | Says that a board that issues job licenses must let a person who wants one to show job experience instead of schooling if the license needs a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a professional licensing board to consider e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB999 | Intro
25% | The Act would change a definition with respect to laws about farmworker camps. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the definition of "farmworker camp" so that the relevant statutes apply to farmworker camps specifically in connection with work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB998 | Intro
25% | This Act makes the Governor choose the head of DEQ and makes the Senate approve the choice. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.0). Removes authority to appoint the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality from the Environmental Quality Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB388 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the Oregon Health Policy Board to report on the success of Oregon's coordinated health care model. The Act makes changes to the membership, powers and duties of the board. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Oregon Health Pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Health Care Committee |
| OR | HJR14 | Intro
25% | The measure removes the language that would disqualify a member of the LA for being absent 10 or more times. The measure requires voter approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to remove the provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| OR | HB3466 | Intro
25% | The Act says that the OCT may not toll I-205. (Flesch Readability Score: 100). Prohibits the Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing a toll on Interstate 205.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB379 | Intro
25% | The Act makes certain pharmacy drug sale receipts not taxed by the corporate activity tax for all tax years. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Removes the sunset on the exemption for receipts from the sale of prescription drugs by certain pharmacies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB644 | Intro
25% | The Act tells a legislative group to audit the state food bank for political spending. The Act ends at the start of 2027. The Act starts when signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Establishes the Oregon Food Bank Audit Committee as a joint commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Joint Human Services Committee |
| OR | SB780 | Intro
25% | The Act concerns a limit on moneys put in the County Fair Account. The Act removes the limit. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.2). Removes the annual limit of $1.53 million, adjusted for inflation, on allocations from the Administrative Services Economi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB651 | Intro
25% | Tells the Secretary of State to study how to make it easier for a business to file papers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the Secretary of State to study methods for reducing the paperwork filing burden on businesses in this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB964 | Intro
25% | The Act defines a postmark for ballot envelopes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Defines "postal indicator" as an official mark stamped on an envelope by the United States Postal Service for purposes of determining the date or time at which a ballo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB965 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a person may not deliver the ballot of another person. The Act has exceptions. The Act imposes specified fines for a violation. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning a ballot of anot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB676 | Intro
25% | Limits the interest rate to no more than the prime rate plus one percent for loans advanced under the veterans' home and farm loan program. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Limits the interest rate to no more than the prime rate plus one percent for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | SB919 | Intro
25% | Requires a student to meet standards in reading, writing and math before getting a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires a student to demonstrate proficiency in specified Essential Learning Skills prior to the student being ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB889 | Intro
25% | The Act limits pretrial release for people charged with some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with a felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release. Requires the Oregon Department of Administr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB918 | Intro
25% | Requires health classes to cover from conception to birth. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB895 | Intro
25% | The Act says that an agency has to come before a committee to talk about a rule if 10 members request it in writing. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires an agency, upon the written request of 10 members of the Legislative Assembly objecting to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB920 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the OSU Extension Service to oversee a project to improve mental health and SUD services in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Early Childhood and Behavioral Health Committee |
| OR | SJM9 | Intro
25% | Asks the U.S. President and the heads of two federal agencies to do all that they can to help prevent, mitigate and suppress wildfires in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Urges the President, the United States Secretary of the Interior a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB924 | Intro
25% | The Act directs the Department of State Police to study ways to speed up forensic drug testing. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9). Requires the Department of State Police to study ways to expedite f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB917 | Intro
25% | The Act says that marijuana items and stores have to warn people that the use of marijuana by a person who is pregnant might cause danger. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires a marijuana retailer and a medical marijuana dispensary to post warn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SJR32 | Intro
25% | Provides for a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source. Requires voter approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall have a right to access an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Rules 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 | SB659 | Intro
25% | The Act keeps a tuition waiver from being reduced by other aid amounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB620 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the AG to report each year on settlement agreements entered into by DOJ that make the state pay more than $4 million. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the Attorney General to report annually to the interim committees of the Le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB635 | Intro
25% | This Act tells OSU to study and make a report on nuclear energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Directs Oregon State University to conduct a feasibility study on nuclear energy generation in this state. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB664 | Intro
25% | This Act says that mines that use air, water or froth to remove metal from ore are gravity separation mines. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Provides that mines solely using gravity separation shall be deemed gravity separation mines. Modifies the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB678 | Intro
25% | The Act undoes changes in law by Senate Bill 762 (2021). The changes concern how to class wildfire risk. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Undoes wildfire protection provisions adopted in Senate Bill 762 (2021). Declares an emergency, effective July ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | HB2185 | Intro
25% | Removes the cap of the percent of students who can attend a virtual public charter school. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Removes the requirement that a student must receive approval from the student's resident school district before enrolling in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| OR | SB662 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a bigger amount for the tax credit that is allowed for gifts of money to political parties or to people who run for office. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Increases the maximum allowable amount of political contribution personal inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB669 | Intro
25% | The Act would make a school district prioritize the length of time teaching when choosing which teachers to keep. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Requires a school district that is making reductions in educator staff positions to prioritize seniori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB640 | Intro
25% | The Act changes when minors are the victims of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Adds a manner of co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SJM6 | Intro
25% | The measure asks Congress to draft and ask states to o.k. a change to the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Urges Congress to propose for state ratification an amendment to the United States Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB645 | Intro
25% | The Act would repeal the law that set a state standard for city and county laws that govern the use of public property by the homeless. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
| OR | SB613 | Intro
25% | The Act repeals certain provisions from the pay equity law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies pay equity requirements for employers. Removes certain provisions relating to obligations, rights and remedies under pay equity laws. Makes conform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business 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 | SJR26 | Intro
25% | The measure asks voters to get rid of the short sessions of the legislature. The measure asks voters to say yes or no at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to eliminate even-n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB619 | Intro
25% | The Act changes how the Governor may grant pardons and take similar actions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires that all executive clemency actions by the Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB616 | Intro
25% | This Act stops a city from limiting home building for tree preservation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Prohibits a local government from conditioning the development or use of property for needed housing based on the retention of trees. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
