Bill > HB2850

This bill addresses nepotism regulations for members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly by requiring annual disclosure of family or household members employed on a legislator's personal staff. Specifically, legislators must file a form with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission (OGEC) that lists each relative or household member receiving a salary on their personal legislative staff, the amount of that salary, and for relatives living with the legislator, the percentage of staff allowance used to pay their salary. The bill modifies existing Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) to allow legislators to appoint, employ, promote, discharge, or directly supervise relatives or household members on their personal legislative staff, which is an exception to standard public employment nepotism rules. The new provisions will apply to legislators with family members on their staff on or after the bill's effective date, creating more transparency around the employment of relatives in legislative offices while providing some flexibility for legislators in staffing their personal offices.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2850