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Oregon 2025 Legislative Measures
Relating to academic credits at public institutions of higher education. [SB-786]
[Education ]
Tells colleges to give course credit to an incoming student who took part in certain programs while the student was in high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution. Requires the institution to award two or four academic credits
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Smith
Work Session Scheduled. on 03/10/2025
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Relating to an apprenticeship program for building inspectors; and prescribing an effective date. [SB-1086]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Housing ]
[Education ]
Tells DCBS to help a group of building officials to develop a plan to set up a program to train people to inspect buildings. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). [Digest: Tells the director of DCBS to set up an apprentice program to train people to inspect buildings. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).] Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to assist and provide support to the Oregon Building Officials Association to develop a proposal for [establish] establishing an apprenticeship program for building inspectors.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Janeen Sollman
Effective On The 91st Day Following Adjournment Sine Die. on 06/06/2025
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Relating to Oregon State University Extension Service oversight of behavioral health promotion; and declaring an emergency. [SB-920]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
The Act tells the OSU Extension Service to oversee a project to improve mental health and SUD services in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Smith
Effective Date, May 28, 2025. on 06/06/2025
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Relating to an agriculture education scholarship. [SB-785]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The Act creates a scholarship program for ag teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Establishes the Agriculture Education Scholarship Program to provide [free tuition and fees for qualifying agriculture education students in exchange for the student's commitment to work in a rural community after graduation] grants to qualified students for the equivalent of the cost of one full-time academic year in a qualified agriculture program that will prepare the student to be an agriculture teacher in a high school in this state. Appropriates moneys
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Smith
Recommendation: Do Pass With Amendments And Be Referred To Ways And Means By Prior Reference. (printed A-eng.) on 04/14/2025
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Relating to dual credit programs. [SB-784]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
The Act includes certain subjects in the state's dual credit programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike McLane
Effective Date, January 1, 2026. on 06/06/2025
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Relating to a lumber grading training program. [SB-1061]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Construction ]
The Act requires the creation of a lumber grading training program. The Act requires DCBS to create a process for certain people to obtain lumber from those who have gone through the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). Requires the Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service to establish a lumber grading training pilot program. Establishes the requirements of the pilot program. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a process by which specified individuals may obtain lumber from an individual
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Smith
Vote Explanation(s) Filed By Scharf. on 05/29/2025
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Declaring a commitment to the health and safety of firefighters and to finding an urgent solution to the problem of firefighting personal protective gear that contains cancer-causing chemicals. [HCR-2]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Declares the urgent need to find safer gear for firefighters. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Declares a commitment to the health and safety of firefighters and to finding an urgent solution to the problem of firefighting personal protective gear that contains cancer-causing chemicals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Meek
Filed With Secretary Of State. on 04/03/2025
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Relating to urban growth boundaries; and declaring an emergency. [HB-3921]
[Community Development ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
This Act approves the City of Roseburg's UGB exchange. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Approves City of Roseburg and Douglas County 2024 ordinances that provided for amendments to the city's urban growth boundary, the city boundaries and the city and county's comprehensive plan and land use regulations. Requires the Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development to issue a conforming order. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Smith
Governor Signed. on 05/28/2025
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Urging the President, the Executive Director of the Maritime Administration and Congress to purchase the SS United States, designate it as a National Historic Landmark, restore it and name it the flagship of our nation. [SJM-10]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Tourism ]
[National Security ]
Asks the President, the MARAD and Congress to buy a certain ship, make it an official U.S. landmark, fix it up and call it the official flagship of the U.S. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Urges the President of the United States, the Executive Director of the Maritime Administration of the United States Department of Transportation and the Congress of the United States to purchase the SS United States from Okaloosa County, Florida, using funds transferred from the United States Department of Defense, designate it as a [National Historic Landmark]
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike McLane
Referred To Rules. on 06/03/2025
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Relating to standards of time. [SB-1038]
[Telecommunications ]
The Act, for the part of the state in the Pacific Time Zone, stops the one-hour change of time in the spring and fall of each year and keeps the zone at standard time year-round if CA and WA states do the same within 10 years. The Act, for the part of the state in the Pacific Time Zone, permits the one-hour change of time to remain at daylight saving time year-round if Congress authorizes it and if CA and WA states have daylight saving time year-round, within 10 years. The Act keeps the part of the state in the Mountain Time Zone unchanged. (Flesch
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Meek
Referred To Rules. on 04/01/2025