New Oregon laws taking effect September 26, 2025

HB 2010 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends the assessment on earnings from health plan premiums, the assessment on payments by the Oregon Health Authority to managed care organizations, the assessment on hospitals and the Oregon Reinsurance Program.

HB 2143 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "five-needle protocol."

HB 2211 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines a "dental subcontractor."

HB 2385 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.

HB 2573 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the requirements for the Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program.

HB 2594 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires a dental laboratory to register with the Health Licensing Office.

HB 2685 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.

HB 2789 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority under specified circumstances from requiring, as a condition of reimbursing the cost of the service, a primary care provider to order a covered care management service provided by a licensed registered nurse to a medical assistance recipient.

HB 2940 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to implement a program for providing to emergency departments in real time notifications that identify patients with hemoglobinopathies and provide information on how to contact a hematologist.

HB 2942 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse pharmacies and pharmacists in the same manner as other health care providers for certain services related to HIV treatment.

HB 3042 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Specifies additional reasons for which the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine may impose discipline.

HB 3043 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "monitoring agreement" and "workplace monitor" for purposes of the impaired health professional program.

HB 3044 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse," "diagnosing" and "medication aide."

HB 3045 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the State Board of Pharmacy to require a person under investigation by the board to undergo a mental, physical, chemical dependency or competency evaluation.

HB 3226 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.

HB 3242 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period.

HB 3294 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopted, the applicable statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for the unit.

HB 3409 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers to require that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug unless certain requirements are met.

HB 3724 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits advertising, packaging and labeling of marijuana items in a manner likely to cause minors to unlawfully possess or consume marijuana items.

HB 3761 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.

HB 3819 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows the State Board of Massage Therapists to post a placard on the exterior of a massage facility found to have committed specified violations.

HB 3824 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows a physical therapist to perform dry needling.

SB 1161 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to issue a license to an organ procurement organization to operate an organ transport vehicle.

SB 1173 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that certain entities providing a product as part of health care services are not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of the product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the entity was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.

SB 230 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to require oral health care providers to complete an intake screening with an enrollee of the Veterans Dental Program within 60 days after the enrollee initiates contact with the provider.

SB 729 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends to all public bodies the prohibition against denying mental health services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

SB 810 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the Department of Education to increase opportunities for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities to obtain and advance in competitive integrated employment.

SB 873 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Repeals a license issued by the Oregon Medical Board to certain physicians licensed to practice in other jurisdictions.

HB 2072 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends certain taxes on the privilege of harvesting merchantable forest products on forestlands.

HB 2073 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes technical changes in Oregon tax statutes.

HB 2074 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends the sunset date for the partial property tax exemption for the property of vertical housing development projects.

HB 2077 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends the sunset date for the property tax exemption for nonprofit corporation low income housing.

HB 2078 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends the sunset date for the property tax exemption for multiunit rental housing.

HB 2087 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends sunsets for certain tax credits and exemptions.

HB 2095 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the tax credit for research conducted by a semiconductor company.

HB 2321 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Legislative Fiscal Officer to analyze and prepare a report on the current state property tax system and options to modernize the state property tax system.

HB 2339 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes changes to certain tax laws.

HB 2351 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes changes to certain statutes related to the release and reporting of businesses' economic development information.

HB 3190 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.

HB 3232 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Removes the eligibility requirement for the low income rental housing property tax exemption that property of a limited equity cooperative be constructed or converted after the local governing body adopts the exemption program.

HB 3630 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity.

HB 3940 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Imposes a tax on the distribution of oral nicotine products.

SB 485 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the exemption from taxable estate for the value of natural resource property as applicable to forestland.

SB 799 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes a uniform statute of limitations applicable to tax programs administered and enforced by the Department of Revenue.

SB 99 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends the sunset for the property tax incentive benefit programs for brownfields and property on brownfields.

HB 2269 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Oregon State Capitol Foundation voting directors to appoint all voting directors who are not appointed by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

HB 2337 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a small business preferences program for state procurement.

HB 2565 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Exempts contracts with certain federally funded research and development centers from the provisions of the Public Contracting Code.

HB 2680 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires a contractor, as a condition of receiving public funds to install, repair or remodel a fenestration product or system in a public building, to have a national certification as a glazing contractor and at least one employee that has a national certification as an architectural glass and metal technician.

HB 2725 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Limits the kind of port districts that are required to be involved in strategic investment program agreements with respect to eligible projects that are located in the port district's territory.

HB 2728 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Public Employees Retirement System to include information about the use of overtime hours in calculating the final average salary of a member of the system who is retiring.

HB 3022 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Department of Revenue to disclose information to the Employment Department for purposes of administering the paid family and medical leave insurance program.

HB 3646 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Adds entities in which employees of the entity own at least 50 percent of the ownership interest in the entity directly or through an employee stock ownership plan to the list of sources to which a contracting agency may give preference in procuring goods or services for public contracts.

SB 1175 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Task Force on Removing Barriers to Jury Service.

SB 143 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Increases the percentage points of the employer tax rate that are used to determine the amount of wages paid into the Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund each calendar quarter.

SB 789 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Oregon Board of Psychology to assess costs associated with disciplinary action to the person against whom the disciplinary action is taken.

SB 838 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that the Public Contracting Code does not apply to the contracting activities of the State Parks and Recreation Department, except with respect to surplus property, information technology, photogrammetric mapping or telecommunications.

SB 859 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to compromise or adjust certain debts and overpayments relating to the paid family and medical leave program.

SB 950 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters to establish by rule criteria for the issuance of a supervisory sign language interpreter license.

HB 2236 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows a professional employer organization to elect to treat the employees of a client employer for whom the PEO has assumed employer responsibilities as either the employees of the PEO itself or of the client employer for certain purposes under unemployment insurance law.

HB 2248 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Employer Assistance Division within the Bureau of Labor and Industries.

HB 2688 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.

HB 2800 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Changes the term "worker leasing company" to "professional employer organization" in statute to reflect the use of agreements under which professional employer organizations and client employers allocate employer responsibilities for some or all of the client employer's workers.

HB 3021 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes changes to statutes related to unemployment insurance law and paid family and medical leave insurance law.

HB 3024 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Eliminates the reduction of an individual's maximum benefit amount by eight times the individual's weekly benefit amount after the individual is disqualified from the receipt of benefits for cause and has not earned at least four times the individual's weekly benefit amount.

HB 3187 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.

SB 1086 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

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 establishing an apprenticeship program for building inspectors.

SB 69 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Specifies that the Bureau of Labor and Industries is responsible for certain administrative and regulatory oversight regarding certain provisions under the laws governing paid family and medical leave that relate to retaliation and discrimination.

SB 858 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes technical changes to statutory provisions concerning the administration of the family and medical leave insurance program.

SB 865 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying.

HB 2065 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows a person to contract with a third-party consultant to conduct a study or engineering evaluation that a public utility requires for an application to interconnect a microgrid or community microgrid.

HB 2081 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to take certain actions to manage the risks of climate change to the Public Employees Retirement Fund.

HB 2332 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring a Title V operating permit for certain air curtain incinerators.

HB 3336 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.

HB 3653 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "energy performance contract" and allows authorized state agencies to enter into energy performance contracts without requiring a competitive procurement if the authorized state agency follows rules that the Attorney General adopts, negotiates a performance guarantee and enters into the contract with a qualified energy service company that the State Department of Energy prequalifies and approves.

HB 3729 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or a regional air quality control authority from requiring a person to operate a human or animal crematory incinerator at a temperature greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.

HB 3794 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.

HB 3863 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Public Utility Commission to establish an eligibility cap at no less than 10 megawatts for the use of standard avoided costs rates and contracts for the purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

HB 3963 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Extends to January 1, 2027, the date by which the Department of Land Conservation and Development is to report on the department's assessment of the state enforceable policies that may be used in the federal consistency review of offshore wind leasing decisions and related actions.

SB 726 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill located in Benton County to conduct surface emissions monitoring and report data as specified in the Act.

HB 2089 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides for a process by which former owners of real property deeded to the county for delinquent property taxes may claim the surplus value after the property has been disposed of by the county.

HB 2316 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing.

HB 3145 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing.

SB 32 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to post information about publicly supported housing on the department's webpage.

SB 48 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Limits to within an urban growth boundary a dwelling developer's ability to apply updated land use regulations to pending application.

SB 586 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows a landlord to pay a tenant one month's rent to reduce from 90 to 60 days the termination notice period that a landlord must give the tenant when selling the dwelling unit to buyers who intend to reside in the unit.

SB 684 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing.

SB 830 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies provisions of the on-site septic system loan program to allow for grants.

SB 973 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.

SB 974 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 120 days of submission.

HB 2460 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Updates, reorganizes and modifies the provisions governing appeals from justice courts that have not become courts of record.

HB 2677 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the procedure for the expunction of certain juvenile records.

HB 2975 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that a pleading, an admission or a finding that criminal conduct constitutes a crime involving domestic violence is not an element of the crime for merger purposes.

HB 3604 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes a defense to prosecution for theft, and immunity from civil liability, for an entity that takes possession of, keeps or disposes of a cat as provided in the Act.

HB 3825 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that judgment remedies for judgments of conviction in municipal and justice courts for the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana expire on the effective date of the Act.

SB 243 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Creates the crime of unlawful transport, manufacture or transfer of a rapid fire activator.

SB 907 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires an applicant for a license to manufacture psilocybin to submit to the Oregon Health Authority information regarding the ownership and location of the premises to be licensed or for which a license will be renewed.

SB 993 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes law enforcement agencies to release booking photos to licensed private investigators.

HB 2128 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Updates and standardizes state laws that govern soliciting, offering, negotiating and selling travel insurance and products and services that include or are related to travel insurance.

HB 2563 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires an insurer to provide to an insured a clear and reasonable explanation of the reasons for any increase in the premium amount for a qualified policy upon renewal of the qualified policy.

HB 3115 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits the transfer, for consideration, of winning Oregon State Lottery tickets or shares above a certain value.

HB 3605 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Punishes a violation of the laws that regulate home solicitation sales as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.

SB 1091 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Defines what a transportation protection agreement for human remains is.

SB 831 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the person that has ultimate control over an insurer to file a group capital calculation with the chief insurance regulatory official of the state that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines is the lead state for the insurance holding company system of which the insurer is a part.

HB 2342 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Increases certain wildlife license, tag and permit fee amounts.

HB 3342 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies provisions of law related to the regulation and administration of water rights in this state.

HB 3364 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Makes changes related to a water supply grant program.

HB 3814 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility.

SB 795 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the meaning of terms used for purposes of the abandoned and derelict vessel laws.

HB 3478 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Eliminates gallonage requirements for eligibility for nonretail cardlock dispensing of motor vehicle fuel.

SB 64 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Department of Human Services to seek a waiver of federal requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in order to allow recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance to receive advance installment payments of the tax credit for dependent care expenses.

SB 871 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission retail licensees to maintain invoices of alcoholic beverage deliveries.

HB 2809 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Increases the upper limit on pesticide registration fees.

SB 347 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Disqualifies land from farm use special assessments upon a final civil penalty or judgment of conviction for the illegal growing of marijuana against the landowner or person in possession and control of the land.

SB 360 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides.

SB 1176 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct an effort to publicize and explain the obligation to accept cash as payment for goods and services to places of public accommodation and residents of this state.

SB 163 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the ways that parentage of a child may be established.

SB 470 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.

HB 3687 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits a supermajority vote requirement for any question related to a county or city charter.

SB 578 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the dates by which a candidate or the candidate's agent must file a portrait and statement for purposes of being included in a county voters' pamphlet.

SB 580 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Requires filing officers in each county and city to make publicly available on the county or city website certain election documents that are filed with the filing officer within a specified period.

HB 3041 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the source of law that establishes the Educator Advancement Council from intergovernmental agreement to state statute.

HB 3920 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Increases the age limit for tuition waivers for qualified students.

HB 2066 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a regulatory framework to allow the ownership, deployment and use of microgrids and community microgrids within the service territories of electric companies.

SB 558 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Allows a marijuana licensee to provide samples of marijuana items to other marijuana licensees at temporary events registered with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.

HB 2558 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the definition of "charter guide" for purposes of outfitter and guide laws.

HB 3233 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Expands requirements for the passenger rail plan.

SB 150 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits receiving compensation for performing certain services for or on behalf of an applicant or a claimant for a veteran's benefit except as provided in applicable federal or state law.

HB 3875 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that a motor vehicle manufacturer and an affiliate of a motor vehicle manufacturer must comply with the requirements of the state's privacy laws in controlling and processing personal data the motor vehicle manufacturer or affiliate obtains from a consumer's use of a motor vehicle, regardless of the number of consumers from which the motor vehicle manufacturer or affiliate obtains personal data.