| SB779 | Intro
25% | The Act funds the AgriStress Helpline. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to support the operation of the AgriStress Helpline in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3457 | Intro
25% | The Act makes all employers use E-Verify for new hires. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires employers to use the federal E-Verify employment verification system to verify the employment eligibility of employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee |
| SB761 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to WRD for projects in the Walla Walla basin. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Water Resources Department to implement projects that benefit water demands in the Walla Walla basin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| HB5019 | Intro
25% | The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Transportation and Economic Development Committee |
| HB2464 | Intro
25% | The Act would make technical changes to certain laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Makes nonsubstantive and technical changes in Oregon law. Corrects grammar and punctuation. Conforms language to existing statutes and legislative style.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third reading. Carried by Chotzen. Passed. Ayes, 58; Excused, 2--Nguyen D, Reschke. |
| HB3453 | Intro
25% | The Act creates the WESA. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Creates the Westside Express Service Authority. Prescribes duties of the authority. Directs TriMet to transfer operation of the Westside Express Service commuter rail line to the authority. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| HB3503 | Intro
25% | This Act makes OHCS give money to charity to turn Clackamas County homes into low-cost starter homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| HB3486 | Intro
25% | The Act includes a member of the Research Vessel Council from UO. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Requires at least one member of the Research Vessel Council to be a trained scient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| HB3489 | Intro
25% | The Act would impose a new severance tax on timber harvested from public or private forestland. The Act would repeal all current forest product harvest taxes. The Act would get rid of a lot surcharge, the Emergency Fire Cost Committee and the Oregon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Revenue Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
25% | Says that a person must get a license to provide earned income access services in this state. Says what the person must do to get the license and how a state agency can decide whether to issue the license. Says what the person can and cannot do in pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| HB3504 | Intro
25% | The Act gives moneys to the TSPC to pay for new staff positions. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Appropriates moneys to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to fund nine additional full-time staff positions to support student safety and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HB2386 | Intro
25% | Gives ODVA the power to make rules to carry out the laws on unclaimed remains of veterans and family. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Provides the Department of Veterans' Affairs with authority to adopt rules to implement the laws concerning the un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third reading. Carried by Grayber. Passed. Ayes, 58; Excused, 2--Nguyen D, Reschke. |
| HB3110 | Intro
25% | The Act requires state and U.S. flags on public buildings to be flame hardy flags by July 4, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags. Directs public buildings to transition f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans Committee |
| HB3483 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a homeless camp site must be occupied for 72 hours before a 72-hour notice of removal of the camp site may be posted. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Provides that a camping site is not "established" until it has been continuously...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| HB3510 | Intro
25% | Stops people from using ways of buying up tickets to events that evade a ticket seller's security or limit on the number of tickets a person can buy. Says that a reseller must have a ticket before it can sell the ticket. (Flesch Readability Score: 60...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB3492 | Intro
25% | The Act tells DOGAMI to study and report on risks related to toxic substances that may be released in an earthquake. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to study risks and issues relating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans Committee |
| HB3021 | Intro
25% | The Act would make changes to the laws of the unemployment and paid leave programs run by the Employment Department. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Makes changes to statutes related to unemployment insurance law and paid family and medical leave i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. |
| HB3509 | Intro
25% | The Act creates an escrow fund to hold CCO restricted reserves. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Creates the Community Escrow Fund in the State Treasury to hold coordinated care organization restricted reserves. Allows a coordinated care organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| SB810 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODHS and ODE to make certain changes to implement a policy of employment first. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Directs the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the Department of Education to increase opportunities for ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Joint Human Services Committee |
| HB3470 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the SOS to confirm voter registration data from ODOT and OHA. The Act tells the secretary not to send the data to a county clerk until and unless the person is confirmed to be a U.S. citizen. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2341 | Intro
25% | Adds e-mail address to the type of data that is to be shared with the Department of Veterans' Affairs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Adds a uniformed service member's or veteran's e-mail address to the information that the Director of Human Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third reading. Carried by Watanabe. Passed. Ayes, 58; Excused, 2--Nguyen D, Reschke. |
| HB3501 | Intro
25% | The Act is about changing aspects of certain water rights. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Prohibits the consideration of whether certain changes related to water rights would impair or be detrimental to the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| HB2066 | Intro
25% | Tells the PUC to create rules and a framework to allow microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a regulatory framework to allow the ownership, deployment and use of microgrids and community micr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| HB3494 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OHA to set minimum rates for reimbursing providers of mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| HB3474 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| HB3455 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to transfer certain state forest lands to counties. The Act describes when and how the transfers must occur. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.4). Directs the State Board of Forestry to convey certain state forest lands to a count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| HB2556 | Intro
25% | The Act names PSU as this state's urban research school. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.7). Designates Portland State University as Oregon's Urban Research University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Recommendation: Do pass. |
| SB992 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the OLCC to study ways to modernize Oregon's Bottle Bill. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study the modernization of the beverage container redemption and recycling law. Direct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| 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 |
| HB3511 | Intro
25% | The Act tells some state agencies to take steps to raise awareness of the negative health effects of using betel nuts. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to award grants to communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| HB2845 | Intro
25% | Makes ODVA create more positions and hire staff. Makes ODVA create pilot programs on suicide prevention and workforce training. Makes ODOT accept an ID issued by USDOD or USDVA. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires an appropriation to the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans Committee |
| SB940 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the meaning of "area zoned for rural residential use" for land use planning. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| HB3485 | Intro
25% | The Act changes when DHS can find that a person's restraint or seclusion of a student amounts to child abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Modifies when the Department of Human Services may substantiate an allegation of child abuse arising from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
25% | Exempts the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors from the law that requires there to be a place for radioactive waste to be disposed of before a nuclear power plant may be sited in this state. Refers the Act to the peo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| HB3507 | Intro
25% | Amends OHCS's HOAP and CRO-DPA programs to reach more home owners. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to amend specified down payment assistance programs to increase eligibility by January 1, 2026...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| SB991 | Intro
25% | The Act removes two bases for a worker to say no to a temp modified job without the loss of workers' comp benefits so that more such jobs qualify. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| HB3371 | Intro
25% | This Act makes landlords notify car lenders of a tenant's left behind car. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires landlords to notify and treat lienholders of abandoned vehicles the same as lienholders of abandoned recreational vehicles, manufact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB3472 | Intro
25% | The Act says that ODOT must study e-bikes and e-scooters. The Act says ODOT must report to the JCT. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.4). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to electric assisted bicycles and motor assisted sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| HB2065 | Intro
25% | Allows the use of a third party to study or evaluate a request to connect a project to a power system. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Allows a person to contract with a third-party consultant to conduct a study or engineering evaluation that a pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| HB2064 | Intro
25% | Makes the PUC take certain actions to support microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Public Utility Commission to take certain actions to support the operations of microgrids and community microgrids. Requires the Department of Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| HB3500 | Intro
25% | The Act would bar city councillors from running for reelection before the last election held before the end of their current term. The Act would make an exception for a councillor who has moved from one district in the city to another. (Flesch Readab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| HB3451 | Intro
25% | Makes the head of ODE an elected position. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Establishes the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a nonpartisan statewide elected office. Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene the Oregon Parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| HB3463 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study water banks. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Directs the Water Resources Department to study water banks. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| SB1001 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to DAS for the Coast Community Health Center. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Coast Community Health Center to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| HB3467 | Intro
25% | The Act provides that a person may not return someone else's ballot. The Act has exceptions. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits an individual from collecting and retur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2669 | Intro
25% | The Act tells community colleges how to decide the rate at which part-time faculty will be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires community colleges to pay part-time faculty at the same rate, on a per-hour basis, as the community college pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| HB3452 | Intro
25% | The Act makes the LC responsible for drafting ballot titles. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2817 | Intro
25% | The Act removes permit closure of forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Eliminates the closure of forestland, due to fire danger, by permit closure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
