| HB2654 | Intro
25% | This Act creates and funds an OHCS program for housing disabled veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Services Department. Requires the department, in coordinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| SB521 | Intro
25% | This Act makes more cities create urban reserves and allows building on them. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Requires additional cities to develop urban reserves. Allows approval of certain types of development within urban reserves not designated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
| HB2810 | Intro
25% | The Act directs the OPDC to study law changes needed for public defense. The Act directs the OPDC to provide the results of the study to the legislature by May 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
| SB263 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the DOC to study DOC institutions. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Requires the Department of Corrections to study Department of Corrections institutions. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3036 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to the tax credit for banks that lend to build housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Expands purposes, for corporate excise tax credit allowed for affordable housing lending, for which a qualified borrower may use savings f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| HB3096 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a new tax credit for apprenticeships. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities. Applies to all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee |
| SB537 | Intro
25% | The Act creates new laws for workplace violence prevention in health care settings. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health Care Committee |
| HB2790 | Intro
25% | The Act clarifies that employees can take sick leave for a mental health condition. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Clarifies the meaning of "mental health condition" for purposes of sick leave provisions to include leave taken to restore the emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODOT to do a study about traffic offenses and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to traffic offenses and to report to an appropriate committee or interim commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB384 | Intro
25% | The Act tells doctors to provide a child born alive with a level of care based on the child's gestational age, even if the child was born after an attempt to abort the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires health care practitioners to exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health Care Committee |
| SB301 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the State Marine Board to study boat safety. The Act tells the board to make a report on the results of the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB2126 | Intro
25% | The Act provides the right for certain represented workers to have union representation at certain DHS meetings that could result in discipline. The Act directs DHS to adopt rules about the workers' rights. The Act will take effect when the Governor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the DOJ to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Directs the Department of Justice to study ways to address organized retail theft, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB238 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the DPSST to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues relating to law enforcement officers. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3002 | Intro
25% | The Act makes the Task Force on Data Modernization and tells the task force to make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Establishes the Task Force on Data Modernization and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 8:00 am]
To Joint Human Services Committee |
| HB2264 | Intro
25% | This Act requires OHCS to study home ownership. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homeownership and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| HB3111 | Intro
25% | This Act requires OHCS to make a mediation program for all evictions. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish an eviction mediation program. Requires residential landlords to provide infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a new tax credit for youth employment programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for a taxpayer that employs youth through the Oregon Youth Employment Program. Applies to tax years begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| HB2474 | Intro
25% | The Act changes when minors are the victims of some crimes. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Modifies the types of familial relationships involved in a manner of committing rape in the first degre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB144 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the State Treasurer to study IT. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the State Treasurer to study information technology. Directs the State Treasurer to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Information Management and Technology Committee |
| HB2030 | Intro
25% | The Act would give funds to a nonprofit in the City of Charleston so that it may buy and develop two RV parks for the community. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Appropriates moneys to the Charleston Merchants Association to purchase properties for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
25% | The Act directs the CJC to study assaults in the workplace. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study occupational assault convictions and sentences. Directs the commission to submit findings to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2592 | Intro
25% | This Act makes it a crime to intentionally release a balloon into the airspace of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Adds intentionally releasing a balloon into the airspace of this state as conduct punishable as the crime of offensive lit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to the State Police for rape kit testing. (Flesch Readability Score: 88.9). Appropriates moneys to the Department of State Police for the purpose of reducing the backlog of untested sexual assault forensic evidence kits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
25% | The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| SB18 | Intro
25% | Boosts the punishment for certain people who commit voting law wrongs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Increases the criminal and civil penalties for subsequent and intentional violations of specified election laws. Enhances the penalties if the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB440 | Intro
25% | The Act raises the exemption amount and the filing threshold for the CAT for home builders. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax as applicable to homebuildin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
25% | This Act describes work that may be done from within homes on forest or farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.1). Describes allowable home occupations on lands zoned for forest or farm use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| HB3047 | Intro
25% | The Act would require a study of the clean tech sector in Oregon. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the clean technology sector in O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee |
| HB2783 | Intro
25% | This Act requires DOJ to study squatting. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| HB2975 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a finding that a crime constitutes DV is not an element of the crime. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.1). Provides that an admission or a finding that a crime constitutes domestic v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
25% | The Act tells BOLI to study matters related to the laws that BOLI enforces. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to laws over ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| HB2277 | Intro
25% | The Act would have Business Oregon study the semiconductor industry in this state. The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee |
| HB2851 | Intro
25% | The Act changes a definition for two crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies the definition of "critical infrastructure" to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the OCAC to study and make a report on natural climate solutions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Oregon Climate Action Commission to study natural climate solutions. Directs the commission to submit findings to the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| SB706 | Intro
25% | The Act requires DAS to study methods to detect paycheck errors. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study methods for detecting paych...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| SB338 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the Gov. to tell a U.S. official that a marine sanctuary in this state will not be accepted unless the legislature signs off on it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires the Governor to certify to the United States Secretary of Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 |
| SB25 | Intro
25% | The Act tells DHS to study emergency departments. The Act requires DHS to report to certain committees on its study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments. Directs the department to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health Care Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODHS to study certain services. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires the Department of Human Services to study developmental disabilities services. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Joint Human Services Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
25% | The Act would let Business Oregon take stock of loans and grants made by the state to develop the economy. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to survey state loan and grant programs for economic de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| HB2937 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the OHA to have a public health laboratory and to run a program for testing newborns. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot scr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| HB3126 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the TSPC to create a pilot program to license some types of teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.8). Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish by rule a five-year pilot program to license teachers other than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
25% | The Act tells DPSST to study OSP and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study the Oregon State Police. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the LRO to study the personal income tax system. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the personal income tax system. Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit findings to the inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| HB2644 | Intro
25% | The Act would make the DOC study and report on the facilities used to carry out the death penalty in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Department of Corrections to study the facilities used to execute adults in custody at the Oreg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2962 | Intro
25% | The Act changes laws with respect to the calculation of the minimum wage rate. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Provides for calculation of the minimum wage rate beginning July 1, 2026. Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to establish a formu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee |
| SB629 | Intro
25% | The Act says that the OMB has to look at a reasonable person standard when it says what unprofessional conduct is. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires the Oregon Medical Board to consider a reasonable person standard in determining what consti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health Care Committee |
