| OR | SB466 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to DAS to give to a nonprofit for a summer program. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Tsuga Community Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs 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
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB223 | Intro
25% | The Act directs ODE to design and give plaques to schools that have benefited from Senator Peter Courtney's support of funding seismic safety for schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.1). Directs the Department of Education to design and distribute ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB545 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a new tax credit for volunteer firefighters. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB520 | Intro
25% | This Act gives money to Coos and Curry Counties to transport veterans to a VA medical center. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the biennium beginning J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | SB748 | Intro
25% | The Act would allow drug testing for an initial claim for unemployment in certain cases. The Act would make the Employment Department pay for the tests, not the claimant. The Act would disqualify a claimant who fails a drug test until the claimant re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB885 | Intro
25% | Tells a state agency to make fire insurance and property insurance available to people in this state to protect against wild fires. Sets up a fund for this purpose. Says that the agency must focus on insurance in areas where insurers do not do enough...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB923 | Intro
25% | The Act would provide funds for a multiuse sports facility in Douglas County. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys for the purpose of seeding the capital campaign and expanding fundraising efforts for a multiuse recreational facility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB879 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to how a person can rebut a presumption that certain people are not able to pay child support. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Modifies procedure for rebutting presumption of inability to pay child support when an obligor earn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB387 | Intro
25% | The Act would grant higher property tax breaks for disabled veterans and their spouses if they survive them. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Grants higher property tax exemptions for the property of veterans with disabilities. Grants exemptions for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs 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
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee |
| OR | SB334 | Intro
25% | Makes the DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the DCBS to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB347 | Intro
25% | The Act would end special tax assessment for land if the owner or the person in control of the land gets a civil penalty for growing pot on the land or is found guilty of growing it there. The Act would make an exception if the owner reasonably didn'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB484 | Intro
25% | The Act raises the dollar limit for claims that can be filed in small claims court. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.1). Increases the limit for the amount of claims that may be filed in small claims court from $10,000 to $20,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB929 | Intro
25% | The Act would give money to the SPRD to work on the Oregon Coast Trail. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.4). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Parks and Recreation Department for planning and coordination to continue to develop, mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB921 | Intro
25% | This Act requires OBDD to study shipyards. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study needed investments in shipyards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB932 | Intro
25% | When a person gets a new car-related conviction while their license is revoked, they must wait to ask to restore their license. The Act says the extra wait time is the amount of time between their new conviction and when they could have asked before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB931 | Intro
25% | The Act says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB926 | Intro
25% | Bans the recoupment of certain costs that a power company incurs from claims based on a wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Prohibits the recovery from customers of certain costs and expenses that an electric company incurs as a result of all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB927 | Intro
25% | Creates a tax credit for the amount paid for transmission services for solar or wind power or power storage. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for the amount paid by an owner of an eligible generation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB877 | Intro
25% | This Act allows Coos County two years to approve a golf course under new criteria. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Adds additional criteria under which Coos County may approve a golf course on lands zoned for exclusive farm use. Sunsets on January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB888 | Intro
25% | Bans a local government from banning or limiting in homes the use of natural gas. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting the residential use of natural gas as an energy source. Provides for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB922 | Intro
25% | The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SJR31 | Intro
25% | The measure asks voters to stop the Governor or state agencies from requiring persons to get medical treatments or shots, unless the Senate and the House pass a law that says the mandate is okay. The measure asks voters to say yes or no on this chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB878 | Intro
25% | This Act allows rural residents to build an extra house for their families. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home. Take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
| OR | SB881 | Intro
25% | The Act transfers duties from the OAC to the CJC. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services. Transfers the duties of the Oversight and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Addiction and Community Safety Response Committee |
| OR | SB930 | Intro
25% | The Act brings back the tax credit for making new forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Reinstates the tax credit for reforestation. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee |
| OR | SB876 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the state to offer certain lands for sale to Coos County. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Directs the State Board of Forestry, on behalf of the State of Oregon, to offer to convey certain real property to Coos County under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB880 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OSB to make an attorney do at least 120 hours of public defense work in the first three years after the attorney is admitted to practice in Oregon. The Act tells the OPDC to train the attorneys. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Directs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB928 | Intro
25% | Tells a public body that buys electric cars or solar panels that it needs proof from the vendor that no forced labor was used in producing the car or panel. Specifies penalties for lying about the proof. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8). Requires pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB882 | 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 | SB884 | Intro
25% | The Act directs the OHA to study ways to increase some people's access to mental health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| OR | SB883 | Intro
25% | The Act would prevent state agencies from making people get a COVID-19 vaccine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Prohibits a state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health Care Committee |
| OR | SB207 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the BOC to make rules to let a person who has a provisional certificate do supervised work. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB221 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study the salmon and trout enhancement program. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study the salmon and trout enhancement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB364 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB501 | Intro
25% | This Act limits the appeal of a land use dispute to nearby opponents of the project who went to a hearing. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or main...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
| OR | SB363 | Intro
25% | The Act extends a grant program for places that process and sell meat products. The Act ends the grant program on January 2, 2028. The Act gives money for the grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.0). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB432 | Intro
25% | The Act concerns fires that start on federal lands. The Act tells the forester and certain entities to take actions to address this type of fire. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Instructs the forester, or a forest protective association or agency t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB350 | Intro
25% | The Act finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls. The Act tells an agency to take actions to reduce the numbers of barred owls. The Act gives money for one of the actions. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.8). Finds that barred owls are known to prey ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB788 | Intro
25% | This Act allows some events on eastern Oregon farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB359 | Intro
25% | This Act says that any person can file a complaint for the DEQ to take action if homeless persons are putting waste into state waters. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Authorizes any person to submit a complaint to the Department of Environmental Qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | SB351 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money for a program for taking certain fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB219 | Intro
25% | Changes the general powers of the PUC. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Modifies the general powers of the Public Utility Commission by removing the commission's general power to balance the interests of the utility investor and the consumer in esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| OR | 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 |
| OR | SB335 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB375 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to take actions under a certain agreement. The Act tells the agency not to take certain actions under the agreement. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Establishes certain additional requirements concerning projects under the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB365 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the Attorney General to help someone whose wine grapes were hurt by wildfire smoke. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Directs the Attorney General to assist a person in recovering damages from the federal government when smoke from a wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB489 | Intro
25% | The measure tells the LAC head to cause OLIS updates to let proposed changes and info about a bill be posted online whether or not the bill has a hearing. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Legislative Administrator to cause updates to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| OR | SB498 | Intro
25% | This Act allows owners of newer historic houses to build an extra house. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for the purpose of serving as an accessory dwelling unit to a home newly const...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee |
