OregonHB 39682025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Relating to the military.

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14 provisions identified: 13 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Lease protections reach Space Force renters

Space Force tenants and covered dependents gain Oregon's military lease protections. They must give landlords official orders showing a covered service, deployment, or separation event. Covered events include deployment outside the area for more than 90 days. Ending the lease carries no termination penalty, fee, charge, or loss of deposit because of the termination. Rent remains due through the effective end date, but not afterward.

College protections cover Space Force reservists

Space Force reservists gain military-duty protections at Oregon community colleges, public universities, and Oregon Health and Science University. For active duty exceeding 30 consecutive days, options include withdrawal without academic penalty, an incomplete grade, or continued study. Withdrawal protections cover refunds or credits for room, board, tuition, and fees. Readmission within one year after release is guaranteed without a new eligibility review, and qualifying scholarships and grants continue. For duty of 30 days or fewer, or treatment for an active-duty injury, schools must allow later completion or grades based on adequate progress.

Resident tuition reaches Space Force families

Qualifying active Space Force members, spouses, and dependent children get resident admission treatment, tuition, and fees at Oregon public colleges. Community colleges treat them like residents of the college district; public universities treat them like Oregon residents. Members qualify through an Oregon duty station or home port, or by establishing Oregon tax residency. The tax-residency route requires filing Oregon income tax returns no later than 12 months before leaving active duty. Dependent children must meet the applicable age, marital-status, study, and dependency requirements.

Military tax subtraction covers Space Force

Regular and reserve Space Force pay now qualifies for Oregon's military-pay tax subtraction. Covered categories include out-of-state service during enlistment or discharge years and specified combat-related out-of-state service after August 1, 1990. Reserve duty away from home overnight for at least 21 consecutive days also qualifies. Other service pay qualifies for up to $6,000 a year. The total subtraction cannot exceed military pay included in federal taxable income.

Space Force parents can delegate care

Space Force reservist parents can delegate certain powers over a minor child's care through a properly signed power of attorney. This applies to federal active service under a presidential call or order, or state active duty. The delegation can last through active duty plus 30 days. Custody rules govern whom a parent can name in specified custody situations.

Space Force pension credit requires contributions

Qualifying Space Force service counts under Oregon's public employee retirement-credit rules. One credit route requires returning to qualifying work with the prior employer within one year after discharge that is not dishonorable. The return must also occur within five years after entering or reentering active service. Before retirement, the employee must pay a lump sum equal to 6% of salary forgone during service. Employees cannot receive credit under both overlapping provisions for the same service period.

On-duty firearm exception covers Space Force

Active and reserve Space Force members gain an existing exception to a restriction on carrying certain concealed firearms. The exception applies while they are on duty. It does not provide a general off-duty exemption.

Resident wildlife rates cover Space Force

Space Force members gain resident-rate treatment for Oregon wildlife licenses, tags, and permits under applicable residency and duty-location rules. Eligible spouses and dependent children of qualifying resident members also receive resident treatment. Nonresident members receive resident treatment except for controlled hunt tags. Dependent children must be unmarried and either under 18, unemancipated, and not self-supporting, or under 23 and studying full-time. The student route also requires the member to provide more than half the child's support.

Excused absences for Space Force children

Schools must excuse up to seven school days each year for dependent children of Space Force members on active duty. Children of members called into active duty also qualify. Additional excused absences can be arranged with the school.

Militia officers can join Space Force

Oregon organized militia commissioned officers can seek conditional release to join the active Space Force or a reserve component. Their commander must certify clearance of responsibility for state and federal property and public money. Officers must also owe no money to the state or their organization. Once officers show proof of appointment or enlistment, they are considered resigned, and orders announce the resignation.

Space Force training qualifies surgical technologists

Completed Space Force surgical technologist training is a recognized path to this work at Oregon health care facilities. People using this path must complete 16 hours of Oregon Health Authority-approved continuing education every two years. Facilities must verify that workers have the required qualifications.

Space Force retirees gain tax withholding

Oregon can include regular and reserve Space Force retired pay in federal agreements for voluntary state income tax withholding. Retirees who owe Oregon tax on that pay can elect withholding through an agreement. The Department of Revenue can share needed member information with the Defense Department and set a minimum monthly withholding amount. Withholding helps pay the tax over time; it does not reduce the tax owed.

More military records support death cases

Official Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Space Force records receive initial evidentiary weight in cases about service-related death or disappearance. These records can support findings about someone who died or disappeared while serving in or with the Armed Forces. The records are evidence, not automatic proof that settles the case.

Space Force stores gain cigarette-tax exemption

Cigarette sales to Space Force exchanges and commissaries are exempt from the covered Oregon cigarette taxes. The exemption changes taxes on sales to those facilities. The law does not guarantee lower prices for customers.

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Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 90 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/16/2025

Third reading. Carried by Bonham. Passed.

Yes: 26 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/9/2025

Rules: Heard and Reported Out

Yes: 5 • No: 0

House vote • 5/22/2025

Third reading. Carried by Evans. Passed.

Yes: 53 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025