| OR | HB2038 | Intro
25% | Tells ODOE to study nuclear energy and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including nuclear waste disposal from nuclear energy. Directs the department to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3183 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to HECC for purposes of the OER Program. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.8). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| OR | HB3182 | Intro
25% | Tells the HECC to give money to fund basic needs for higher learning students. Creates a task force on student housing to study student housing needs. Directs the HECC to provide grants to certain organizations that help low-income college students w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| OR | HB2410 | Intro
25% | Allows EFSC to approve a power plant demo project that uses one or more small modular reactors. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3106 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to DEQ to work on the Oregon Water Data Portal project. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for the Oregon Water Data Portal project. Declares an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 8:00 am]
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB2256 | Intro
25% | This Act limits risk from selling unlawful units of land to protect nature. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Exempts the seller and the nonprofit purchaser of property for conservation purposes from civil or criminal liability for selling units of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 8:00 am]
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3328 | Intro
25% | The Act would let Grant County use road fund moneys from federal forest reserves payments to patrol roads in the county. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Adds Grant County to the list of counties that may use road fund moneys from federal forest res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 8:00 am]
To House Rules Committee |
| OR | HB2685 | Intro
25% | The Act updates the law concerning a disease that affects newborns. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| OR | HB2741 | 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] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| OR | HB3192 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to the OHA to test newborns for five specific diseases. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| OR | HB3150 | 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] | 2025-02-24
To House Revenue Committee |
| OR | HB3171 | Intro
25% | Changes what must be included in an energy resilience plan that a county makes under the Act. Extends the time of a grant program for counties making an energy resilience plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Changes the requirements for an energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB3127 | Intro
25% | The Act would tell people to report deaths to the state using an electronic system. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). [Digest: The Act would tell people with medical jobs to report deaths to the state using an electronic system. (Flesch Readability S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. |
| OR | HCR9 | Intro
25% | Pays respect to the life and memory of Dennis Richardson. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). In memoriam: Secretary of State and former state Representative Dennis Michael Richardson, 1949-2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Recommendation: Be adopted. |
| OR | HCR12 | Intro
25% | Declares a day to celebrate wheat in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Designates February 11, 2026, as Oregon Wheat Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Rules Committee |
| OR | HB3435 | Intro
25% | Makes school meals available at no cost. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income. Requires school districts that make breakfa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| OR | HB3634 | Intro
25% | The Act makes new laws with respect to workforce development activities with respect to the water workforce. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| OR | HB2404 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the State Board of Ed. to make a pilot program to help students access education after high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the State Board of Education, in coordination with Eastern Oregon University, to establish a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| OR | HCR10 | Intro
25% | Pays respect to Roger Martin for his service to this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Recognizes and honors former Oregon State Representative Roger Martin (1935-2023) for his service to this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Rules suspended. Made a Special Order of Business on 02-25 Calendar. |
| OR | HB3569 | Intro
25% | The Act says that the first chief sponsor of a law has to be invited to be on the rules advisory committee for rules implementing the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires an agency that appoints a rules advisory committee with regard to ru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Rules Committee |
| OR | HB3571 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to HECC to be given to OSU for the water research institute. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon State University for purposes of the Ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee |
| OR | HB3570 | Intro
25% | The Act would fund an update by Business Oregon of the infrastructure that is needed for new housing. The Act would also have the agency draft two reports, one on the update and one on water-related works. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee |
| OR | HB3573 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to OWRD for certain things. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Water Resources Department for specified purposes relating to water resources data collection and monitoring for the bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 8:00 am]
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3596 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd range area. The Act gives money for the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3624 | Intro
25% | Requires ESDs to pay fees for certain tests that homeschooled children must take. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Directs education service districts to reimburse parents and legal guardians for fees incurred by parents and legal guardians related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Education Committee |
| OR | HB3594 | Intro
25% | This Act makes it so that a student who is not a resident of this state but goes to a college in this state is a resident of this state to buy certain licenses, tags or permits. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Allows students enrolled full-time in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3584 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a person must be at least 18 years of age to commit the crime of prostitution. The Act also allows protective custody for kids in some cases. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| OR | HB2980 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODFW to set up a Wildlife Stewardship Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program. Directs the department to administer a grant program to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB3364 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes related to a water supply grant program. The Act tells an agency to report on certain programs related to water at least every eight years. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Makes changes related to a water supply grant program....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3419 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study rules related to water. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 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] | 2025-02-18
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | SB1039 | Intro
25% | The Act creates an entity to work toward improving health outcomes for mothers and children. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Creates the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative in the Oregon Health and Science University. Describes the collaborative's respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Early Childhood and Behavioral Health Committee |
| OR | HB3351 | Intro
25% | The Act makes Oregon join a compact to let counselors from other states work in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Enacts the interstate Counseling Compact. Allows the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to disclose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
| OR | HB3526 | Intro
25% | This Act says that a buyer of real estate may sue the seller if the seller does not give the buyer well test results. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Establishes a cause of action for a buyer in a real estate transaction if the seller fails to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3527 | Intro
25% | Creates a fund to help low-income households with water and sewer bill payments. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Public Drinking Water and Sewer Ratepayer Assistance Fund. Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3525 | Intro
25% | This Act requires landlords to test tenants' wells and DEQ to analyze its well data. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires, for each dwelling unit rented by a landlord for which the source of drinking water is a well that is subject to regulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3528 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to HECC to give out for water-related research and grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the University of Oregon an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB2979 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to DAS to give to groups to help produce and distribute food. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to various entities for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB2984 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to an agency for deposit into a certain fund. The Act says that the money must be used for activities related to water. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife out of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB3143 | Intro
25% | The Act allows agencies to award moneys under a grant program related to living with beavers on private land. The Act directs an agency and a committee to report on the grant program. The Act gives moneys to the agency for the grant program. The Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB3131 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to a state agency for uses related to working lands. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Joint Ways and Means Committee |
| OR | HB3121 | Intro
25% | The Act would result in support for small and very small water systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to enter into a contract with the Oregon Association of Water Utilities to provide tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB2988 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to do certain things related to aquifers. The Act tells the agency to make a report related to aquifers. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Instructs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to aquifer rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3341 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to OWEB for a program to protect and improve sources of drinking water. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in the Community Drinking Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3548 | Intro
25% | Repeals 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. Repeals the law that requires a proposed nuclear power plant first receive approval from the electors o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3543 | Intro
25% | This Act gives money to the DEQ to stop aquatic invasive species in ballast water. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct activities related to ballast water to prevent the introduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3542 | Intro
25% | The Act lets motorcycles drive between lanes of traffic. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Allows a motorcycle operator to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions. Increases the penalty for committing the offense of motorcycle or mop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Joint Transportation Committee |
| OR | HB3544 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0). Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. Directs the department to submit a report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee |
| OR | HB3546 | Intro
25% | Tells the PUC to provide for a class of service for facilities that use large amounts of energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities. Direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3535 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OHA to create a free pregnancy resources hotline that a person must call before having an abortion in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a toll-free pregnancy resources hotline...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee |
