By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com
The 2025 Legislature has ended. Here are some bills that passed that may have missed your attention.
List of Oregon 2025 Legislative Bills: Good, Bad and Unusual
- Marriage age:SB 548 raises the minimum age a person can get married from 17 to 18 years old.
- Rent protection for illegal migrants: SB 599 prohibits landlord from using immigration status to determine whether someone can rent a house.
- Gun bill: SB 243 bans rapid-fire activator devices (bump stocks, Glock switches) and allows local governments to ban concealed handgun license holders from carrying firearms in public buildings.
- Pay people to strike bill. SB 916 gives 10 weeks of unemployment benefits to workers who leave jobs to strike against their employers.
- Punishes property owners if they are victims (yes, victims) of a theft crime. SB 426 helped make Oregon the first state in the nation to hold homeowners financially liable if they are cheated by a contractor who doesn’t properly pay his workers. That means when you pay a contractor $200,000 to build a house, if the contractor doesn’t pay his workers and leaves town, the property owner is responsible, in part, for paying the entire $200,000 again.
- Free marijuana samples: SB 558 lets some marijuana licensees give away samples.
- Lets unions sue their opponents. HB 3789 creates sweeping new powers for a union to sue its critics (like the Freedom Foundation).
- Creating Oregon’s official steak. SCR 13 designated the T-Bone as the official favored steak cut for Oregon.
- Dangerous dog bill: SB 733. The bill expands the definition of the term “potentially dangerous dog” for dog control purposes to include a dog that inflicts serious injury on or kills livestock.
- School panic alarm bill: HB 3083. This bill directs schools to consider the use of a panic alarm system as part of a school safety plan.