Bills

Requests the United States Department of Energy and the United States Congress to support the Bonneville Power Administration in providing cleaner, more affordable and more reliable energy to all consumers in the Pacific Northwest.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress and federal agencies to adopt land management reforms that will improve the prevention and mitigation of wildfires on federal lands.

Session 2025r1

Urges the President of the United States, the Director of the National Park Service and the Congress of the United States to provide the funding needed to complete the full historic restoration of the Chateau at Oregon Caves National Monument.

Session 2025r1

Urges the President and Congress to deploy National Guard troops overseas only if the deployment is expressly authorized by the United States Constitution.

Session 2025r1

Requests the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service to relinquish control of as much land in this state as possible to the State of Oregon.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress to change the funding of veterans' health care from a discretionary entitlement to a permanent and direct entitlement.

Session 2025r1

Requests the federal government to appoint a special master to ensure that any restructuring of federal environmental and natural resource laws and policies be undertaken in cooperation and collaboration with the states.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress to enact legislation that extends certain benefits to Reserve and National Guard units deployed under 10 U.S.C. 12304b that are comparable to the benefits received by Reserve and National Guard units under other mobilization authority.

Session 2025r1

Urges the President, the United States Secretary of Education and Congress to continue to expand public funding for kindergarten through 12th grade public education and to refrain from siphoning off public school funding to support school voucher and private charter school programs.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress to ensure strong annual federal funding for the National Institutes of Health and to increase investment in cutting-edge medical research through grants from the NIH to research institutions.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress to pass legislation recognizing that the full spectrum of reproductive health care is a fundamental right of all women.

Session 2025r1

Urges Congress to pass legislation to prevent a future shutdown of the federal government from lasting more than 50 days in the event of an impasse between Congress and the President.

Session 2025r1

Urges the President of the United States to carry out foreign policy and defense doctrines that are rational, well-understood and well-reasoned. Urges the President to appoint, and the Senate to confirm, foreign policy and defense officials possessing sufficient professional experience and understanding of global dynamics and international law to carry out such doctrines.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require approval by the Legislative Assembly of any new fees or fee increases adopted by a state agency. Requires that bills approving new or increased fees be approved by a three-fifths supermajority of each chamber of the Legislative Assembly.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to remove the requirement that school districts must receive voter approval for local general obligation bonds in order to be eligible for matching funds from state-issued bonds. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require petition signatures for initiative laws to contain at least eight percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last general election at which a Governor was elected divided equally among the congressional districts of this state. Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require petition signatures for initiative amendments to the Oregon Constitution to contain at least ten percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last general election at which a Governor was elected divided equally among the congressional districts of this state.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to specify that a section restricting certain banks does not prohibit the establishment of a bank owned or operated by the State of Oregon. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide for surplus corporate tax revenue to be used for school construction and maintenance projects and infrastructure improvements. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to remove the provision that disqualifies a member of the Legislative Assembly from holding office for the term following the election after the member's current term is completed if the member fails to attend 10 or more legislative floor sessions without permission or excuse. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to prohibit an individual who is appointed to fill a vacancy in office from being elected to that office. Specifies the offices to which the prohibition applies.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish the office of Lieutenant Governor and places the Lieutenant Governor first in the line to succeed the Governor if the Governor's office becomes vacant mid-term. Establishes the duration of the term of office of Lieutenant Governor at four years, but provides that the first term of office, elected in the 2028 regular general election, is only two years.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to make the Secretary of State a nonpartisan office with a term of six years that would apply to elections to the office that occur on or after January 1, 2032. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Session 2025r1

Amends the Oregon Constitution to require an initiative petition to be accompanied by a signed form providing for the means by which an increase in state or county expenditures of greater than $50,000 must be paid. Provides that an initiative petition may not be placed on the ballot unless the Secretary of State makes a finding of sufficiency of the means.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to vest the power of impeachment of certain judges in the House of Representatives and the power to try impeachments in the Senate. Requires a two-thirds majority vote of the House of Representatives to deliver an impeachment resolution to the Senate and a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate for conviction.

Session 2025r1

Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to change the requirements governing when the State of Oregon must appropriate or allocate sufficient moneys to pay for new or newly expanded programs that state laws, rules or orders require local governments to provide. Expands the definition of "local government" to include special districts.

Session 2025r1