Oregon Bills

signed · Oregon · Senate Jul 25, 2025

SB 5534: Relating to the financial administration of the Public Employees Retirement System; and declaring an emergency.

Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Public Employees Retirement System. Limits biennial expenditures by the Public Employees Retirement System from specified funds. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Modifies certain limitations on expenditures for the biennium ending June 30, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective [ July 1, 2025 ] on passage .

Topics ✗ Budget & Taxes

signed · Oregon · Senate Jul 25, 2025

SB 5542: Relating to the financial administration of the State Treasurer; and declaring an emergency.

Limits biennial expenditures for certain purposes from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the State Treasurer. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Topics ✗ Budget & Taxes

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 3167: Relating to regulating sales of admission tickets to entertainment events.

] Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets. [ Prohibits a person from offering or selling an admission ticket to a retail purchaser unless the person discloses the initial price and total price of the admission ticket before requiring the purchaser to provide payment information. Requires the seller to make additional disclosures. ] Prohibits a person from willfully using, without prior authorization, an Internet domain name or subdomain name that names a venue, names an entertainment event or a person that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event or is substantially similar to the name of the venue, of the entertainment event or the person or entity that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event. Prohibits a person from publishing or causing another person to publish a website that has or uses text, images, graphics, a design or other material that is so substantially similar to the intellectual property of an operator or venue as to mislead a reasonable visitor to the website into believing that the website is affiliated with the operator or venue . [ Prohibits a reseller from selling or offering for resale an admission ticket unless the reseller has actual or constructive possession of the admission ticket and makes certain disclosures before completing the sale. ] Punishes violations of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 3365: Relating to climate change instruction in public schools.

] Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that [ academic content standards for core subjects include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for responding to such causes and effects ] any revisions to the academic content standards for certain core subjects include standards that address the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to those causes and effects . Applies to academic content standards that are reviewed and revised on or after the effective date of the Act.

Topics ✓ Education ✓ Environment

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 3127: Relating to reports of death.

HB 3127 requires hospitals and health departments to submit death reports electronically through the state's official reporting system to the Center for Health Statistics, replacing paper forms. This change takes effect January 1, 2026, directly impacting medical facilities and public health agencies that handle death certifications. The bill mandates a digital reporting process without altering eligibility or benefits for individuals. It is a procedural update to streamline data collection for public health tracking.

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 5041: Relating to the financial administration of the Oregon Youth Authority; and declaring an emergency.

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Youth Authority for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the authority. Limits biennial expenditures by the authority from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 3336: Relating to electric transmission systems; and prescribing an effective date.

] Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system. Requires an electric company to file with the Public Utility Commission a strategic plan for using grid enhancing technologies where doing so is cost-effective. Requires the plan to be updated [ every two years ] with the integrated resource plan . Requires an electric [ company to carry out the electric ] company's first filed strategic plan to identify which actions can be carried out not later than January 1, 2030. Requires an electric company to conduct a cost-effectiveness and timetable analysis of multiple strategies when proposing additions, improvements or modifications to a transmission system. Requires local governments to review certain applications for the use of grid enhancing technology in an existing right-of-way or easement without holding a hearing and through the application of only clear and objective criteria. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Topics ✓ Energy ✓ Technology

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 2684: Relating to integrated pest management.

Requires that a school integrated pest management plan be reviewed at least once every five years . [ and made available to the public on a website. Provides that a low-impact pesticide list shall be included in an integrated pest management plan. ] Requires that the school integrated pest management plan and the list of low-impact pesticides be made available to the public on a website.

Topics ✓ Environment

signed · Oregon · Senate Jul 25, 2025

SB 5528: Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Land Conservation and Development; and declaring an emergency.

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Land Conservation and Development for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the department. Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes

signed · Oregon · House Jul 25, 2025

HB 5035: Relating to the financial administration of the Oregon Racing Commission; and declaring an emergency.

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 Racing Commission. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

signed · Oregon · Senate Jul 25, 2025

SB 236: Relating to controlled substances; and declaring an emergency.

Separates the possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statutes into separate statutes. Adds fentanyl to certain statutes creating mandatory sentences for manufacture and delivery crimes. Expands the definition of "local correctional facility" for the Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Grant Program to allow people at other types of county facilities to receive opioid use disorder treatment and transition planning services. Provides that a pharmacist may register with the Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe, dispense and administer medications for treatment of opioid use disorder under specified circumstances. Modifies pharmacy prescription locker provisions. Modifies conditional discharge procedural provisions and when a deflection program coordinator provides notice of completion of the program to the court. Modifies the procedures for sealing records related to drug enforcement misdemeanors. Authorizes the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a formula for determining the proportion of grant funds available to counties as part of the Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection Program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Topics ✗ Criminal Justice ✓ Healthcare

signed · Oregon · Senate Jul 25, 2025

SB 684: Relating to housing; and prescribing an effective date.

] [ Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to issue low-interest short-term loans for the construction of mixed income housing. ] Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to adopt rules for long-term financing of residential housing on or before January 1, 2027. Requires the department to report on recommendations for mixed income housing by November 15, 2025, and report on updates to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026. [ Establishes the Mixed Income Public Development Loan Fund to be continually appropriated to the department for those purposes. ] Reduces limitations on the mixed income housing that housing authorities may finance, develop, own, operate or manage. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Topics ✓ Housing

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