Last Updated: 6/9/25 12:54 AM PST
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SB 1173 – Public Hearing
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TAXES, TAXES & MORE TAXES!
Oregon Transportation ReInvestment Package – “TRIP 2025”
Monday -June 9, 2025
Bills of Concern
House Committee On Rules 3:00 pm
SB 1198 – Digest: The Act changes the law for the packaging of vapes to protect the health of minors. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems.
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Featured Testimony: All Citizens of Oregon with a Brain Oppose!
Senate Committee On Rules 1:00 pm
SB 1154 A – Digest: This Act makes changes to laws about areas with ground water quality problems. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies provisions of law related to declarations of ground water quality concern areas and ground water quality management areas. Directs the Governor to appoint an agency [or agencies] to lead an interagency team in ground water quality concern areas and ground water quality management areas. [Provides that ground water management committees shall act in an advisory capacity.] Directs or authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality, the State Department of Agriculture, the Water Resources Department, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take specified actions in ground water quality concern areas and ground water quality management areas
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Featured Testimony: Intrusive Overreach of Government! Oppose!
Joint Committee on Transportation Reinvestment
Overview of 2025 package
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Bills to Support
Senate Committee on Rules 1:00 PM
HB 3582 – Digest: The Act would change the metrics for real market value and income to make more people eligible to defer property taxes on their homes. The Act would have LRO study the value of basing program entry on equity vs. income and turn in a report next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). [Digest: The Act would change the metrics for real market value and income so that more people will be able to defer property taxes on their homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3).] Changes the metrics for a homestead’s real market value and the household income of a claimant in order to expand eligibility for the homestead property tax deferral program. Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly about the equity that claimants hold in their homesteads and the advantages and disadvantages of determining program eligibility on the basis of equity rather than household income.
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Featured Testimony: OR Child Abuse Solutions Supports
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Tuesday - June 10, 2025
Bills of Concern
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Bills to Support
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Wednesday - June 11, 2025
Bills of Concern
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Bills to Support
Senate Committee on Rules 1:00 PM
SB 1173 – Digest: The Act says that some product liability claims may not be filed against a health care facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Provides that a health care facility is not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of a product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the health care facility was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Liability Reform Commission Supports
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Bills of Concern
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Bills to Support
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Bills of Concern
Keep Watch Alert!
Important Tax Tracker
These are the top 13 Tax Bills of the Oregon 2025 Legislature that have had public hearing and may pass within the next 40 days with little notice or warning on when they will be up for a House or Senate vote. Please go to OregonWatchdog.com to get updated.
- Kicker tax refund theft (SB 1177)
- 3% property tax (SB 712)
- 8% beer-wine tax (HB 3197)
- 250% marriage fee hike (SB 97)
- 800% timber tax (HB 3489)
- Drink container tax (HB 3940)
- 4% tire tax (HB 3362)
- $122 million Google tax to fund newspapers (SB 686)
- $500 million Hospital-healthcare tax (HB 2010)
- Baseball stadium jock tax (SB 110)
- Double RV vehicle fee (HB 3902)
- OR Transportation Reinvestment Package (TRIP) …see below.
This year’s package – dubbed the Oregon Transportation Reinvestment Package, or TRIP – includes: (Taken from Oregon Democrats unveil ambitious road funding proposal. By Dirk VanderHart April 3, 2025)
- A staggered 20-cent increase to the state’s 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax. The tax would increase by 8 cents at the outset of next year, and another 4 cents in 2028, 2030, and 2032. It would be indexed to increase with inflation afterward.
- A new tax equal to 1% of the sale price of all cars sold in Oregon, new or used. McLain and Gorsek say Oregon is one of just five states without such a charge, which they call a “one-time system use fee.”
- A new “road usage charge” that electric and highly fuel-efficient vehicles would pay – either as a flat fee or based on actual miles driven in Oregon. Existing electric vehicles would be subject to that still-undefined charge beginning in July 2026. New EVs, plug-in hybrids and cars with fuel economy of 30 miles-per-gallon or better, would be added in subsequent years.
- A separate usage charge for delivery vehicles used by companies with at least 10 such vehicles. The fee is meant to impact corporate delivery services like Amazon, according to a summary.
- Tacking an additional $66 onto Oregon vehicle registration fees, which vary by automobile.
- Adding $90 to vehicle titling fees, which currently range from $90 to $190.
- Increasing the state’s weight-mile tax on heavy vehicles by 16.9%. Taken together with higher taxes and fees for light vehicles, this change would ensure large trucks are no longer paying more than their fair share of road costs. The framework also envisions a tax structure for heavy trucks that is far simpler than the current system.
- A 3% tax on tire sales that would send $25 million a year to rail operations, safe highway crossings for wildlife and improving salmon habitat. (4% per the base bill, HB 3362)
- An increase to an existing tax auto dealers pays for the “privilege” of selling cars in Oregon. The tax would be raised from 0.5% of the price of a vehicle to 0.8%.
- Adding $9.50 to an existing $15 tax on sales of new bicycles that cost at least $200. Funding from the tax goes to bike and pedestrian facilities.
- Increasing a tax dedicated to transit service that Oregon workers’ pay from their paychecks from 0.1% to 0.18%. That’s well under the 0.5% that transit agencies have pushed for recently.
In total, Democratic lawmakers say they are looking to raise an additional $1.5 billion every two years from existing taxes, and another $486 million via the new 1% tax on vehicle sales. They did not offer any notion of how much a new “road usage charge” on EVs, fuel-efficient gas vehicles and delivery trucks could yield.
-Rep. Boomer Wright: Don’t be misled, all taxes or fees will be passed onto consumers (YOU). The Government cannot tax the people into prosperity. Let the Democrats know you want to keep some money for your own family.
The proposed Oregon Transportation ReInvestment Package – “TRIP 2025”, is like more like a “psychedelic tax TRIP” for Oregonians. Here is what it really says.
BUYING AND LICENSING A CAR – NOT DRIVING IT YET….
- DMV FEES – Increase Title fees by $90 or around 100%. Current fees range from $90 to $190.
- Increase Vehicle registration FEES – Increase fees by $66. Current vehicle registration fees for gas powered passenger vehicles range from $126-$156. EV’s pay $316 unless they are registered in the OreGo program.
- New Car TAX (also known as the privilege tax passed in 2017 in HB2017 – ironically the last transportation package). Increases the tax applied to new vehicles from 0.5% to 0.8% or a 60%.
- The “New” Car TAX – Which will apply to all new and used cars and be in addition to the privilege tax. It will be a “one time fee of 1% of the vehicle price.
- Tire TAX – Brand new tax that will be 3% for all tires purchased.
ACTUALLY DRIVING
- Weight Mile TAX – Increase it by + 16.9%. These are the fees that trucks pay instead of the fuel tax. Former Senator Boquist and I called for a Special session on this issue in December of 2023 because the weight mile tax was already constitutionally out of balance with the fuel tax.
- Fuel TAX – Raise the current fuel tax of $0.40 per gallon to $0.60 per gallon. The Oregon gas tax was raised last year by 5%. Oregon has the nation’s 10th highest gas tax.
- ***FUTURE FUEL TAX INCREASES WOULD BE INDEXED AND TIED TO INFLATION – NO LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL, NO VOTE, NO INPUT, JUST AUTOMATIC INCREASES***
- Road Usage CHARGE for cars and pickups – pay per mile. Currently this is an optional program for EV vehicles in lieu of higher registration rates. The new program would eventually apply it to ALL vehicles.
- July 2026: Existing EVs
- July 2027: Newly purchased EVs
- July 2028: Plug-In Hybrids
- July 2029: New vehicles rated at 30 MPG or greater (starting with model year 2030).
DON’T DRIVE? – THERE IS A TAX FOR THAT TOO
- Delivery FEE – Businesses with 10 medium duty vehicles (10,000-26,000 pounds – Amazon vans, UPS, Fed Ex, Service providers like Cintas and Aramark, Batteries Northwest, Snap-on Tools, etc.) would be assessed a per mile fee somewhere in between the weight mile rate (which they do not pay today; they pay the gas tax most likely) and the road usage charge.
- Bike TAX increase — Currently the bike tax is $15 this would raise it to $24.9 for all bikes over $200. That is a 63% increase.
- Payroll wage TAX increase – Payroll tax is currently at 0.1%. The increase would take it to 0.18% an 80% increase.