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State Representative
Paul Evans
(D) - Oregon
Oregon House District 20
In Office - Started: 01/01/2015
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Capitol Office
900 Court St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: 503-986-1420
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB2647 | Relating to urban growth boundaries. | AN ACT Relating to urban growth boundaries; creating new provisions; and amending sections 57 and 60, chapter 110, Oregon Laws 2024. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3794 | Relating to municipal solid waste; and prescribing an effective date. | AN ACT Relating to municipal solid waste; and prescribing an effective date. | Passed |
| HB3426 | Relating to unmanned aircraft systems. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that it is an offense to use a drone to interfere with firefighting and search and rescue activities. The Act changes some penalties for use of drones. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Digest: The Act says that it is an offense to use a drone to interfere with firefighting and search and rescue activities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Expands offenses relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft system to interfere with official duties to include firefighting and search and rescue efforts. Modifies penalties for using an un- manned aircraft system to interfere with law enforcement, firefighting, search and rescue or emergency response efforts. | Dead |
| HCR11 | Declaring June 4, 2025, Communist Survival Day in honor of all those who lost their lives during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a day of remembrance for all of the people that lost their lives at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Declares June 4, 2025, Communist Survival Day in honor of all those who lost their lives during the June 4, 1989, massacre on Tiananmen Square. | Dead |
| SB1067 | Relating to solid waste in Marion County. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act lets a city in Marion County control solid waste in the city. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Authorizes a city within Marion County to control or direct the disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste generated within the city. | Dead |
| HB3629 | Relating to emergency preparedness. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act sets up a public corporation to work on new ways to build emergency readiness in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes the Oregon Partnership for Resilience as a public corporation, the mission of which is to enhance the emergency preparedness of the state through innovation. Establishes the governance structure and sets forth powers and duties of the partnership. Requires annual reporting to the Legislative Assembly and the Governor of partnership activities and plans. | Dead |
| HB3632 | Relating to restrictions on expression in certain housing communities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act stops certain housing communities from banning certain acts of free expression in shared spaces and common areas. The Act creates some exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Prohibits continuing care retirement communities from banning certain acts of free expression in community spaces or common areas of the continuing care retirement community. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to impose a civil penalty against a continuing care retirement community that violates the prohibition. | Dead |
| HB3627 | Relating to funding for disabled veterans; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund. The Act tells a state agency to give money from the fund to disabled veterans for some purposes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Establishes the Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund. Requires the Department of Veterans’ Af- fairs to provide grants to disabled veterans for accessibility resources at residences inhabited by the veteran if the residence is owned by the veteran or a family member of the veteran. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3650 | Relating to the Latino Health System Task Force; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Latino Health System Task Force. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force. Prescribes the task force’s membership and duties. Directs the task force to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3615 | Relating to funding for veterans' services. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to study how moneys are used to pay for veterans’ services. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study how different sources of moneys are used to provide veterans’ services in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3619 | Relating to domestic relations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a child custody order must be made in writing in a short time. The Act says that a court may not name a parenting coordinator unless the parents agree and talk about the cost. The Act says that when a domestic relations or custody matter is remanded, the first judge may not hear the further proceedings. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Provides that a court that issues an order for the custody of a child must issue the order in writing within five days after the ruling. Provides that a court may not appoint a parenting coordinator unless both parents agree after a discussion of costs. Provides that when a domestic relations or custody matter is remanded to a circuit court, the judge who presided over the initial proceedings may not preside over the further proceedings. | Dead |
| HB3742 | Relating to the possession of firearms in the Capitol. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets members and staff with CHLs carry guns in the Capitol. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Provides that members of the Legislative Assembly and legislative branch employees who have a valid concealed handgun license have an affirmative defense to a charge of possessing a firearm within the Capitol, and may not be arrested or charged for the offense while in possession of the license. | Dead |
| HB3614 | Relating to tariffs. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OBDD to set up a program to repay certain companies for tariffs on goods moved through the Port of Coos Bay. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement a program to reimburse companies that relocate headquarters to Oregon for tariffs paid on goods imported through the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. | Dead |
| HB3707 | Relating to school capital construction. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that school districts may receive OSCIM grants only if their new buildings meet resiliency standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Provides that new construction in certain school districts must meet specified resiliency stan- dards for the districts to be eligible to receive a matching grant under a certain grant program fi- nanced with the proceeds of Article XI-P bonds. Directs the State Resilience Officer to convene an advisory committee to clarify responsibilities related to newly constructed large rooms that serve as emergency shelters. | Dead |
| HB3451 | Relating to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the head of ODE an elected position. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Establishes the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a nonpartisan statewide elected office. Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene the Oregon Parents Advisory Group to advise the superintendent on the operations of public elementary and secondary schools. | Dead |
| HB3453 | Relating to commuter rail; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the WESA. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Creates the Westside Express Service Authority. Prescribes duties of the authority. Directs the authority to collaborate with TriMet on the transfer to the authority and di- rects TriMet to transfer the operation of the Westside Express Service commuter rail line to the authority. Establishes the Westside Express Service Authority Fund. Directs the authority to use moneys in the fund to support the operation of the Westside Express Service. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distrib- ution to the authority to support the operation of the Westside Express Service. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3515 | Relating to training of armed public safety officers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of non- lethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques. | Dead |
| HB3514 | Relating to publication of certain election information. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act directs a county clerk to publish a voters’ pamphlet for certain elections. The Act directs a county clerk to publish an official tally of votes at least two times on the day of cer- tain elections. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Requires the county clerk to publish a county voters’ pamphlet for any primary and general election. Requires the county clerk to publish at least two unofficial tallies of votes on the day of each primary election and general election. | Dead |
| HJR15 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to appointee qualification for election. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure amends the Constitution. The measure says that anyone who is appointed to an office may not run for election to that office. The measure refers the amendment to a vote of the people at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). 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 prohi- bition applies. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB3286 | Relating to community organizations active in disaster; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to help each county develop local groups to help in emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish a liaison for each county to foster development of county-level organizations or networks to address emergency pre- vention, preparedness, response and recovery. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3260 | Relating to a grant program to improve the resiliency of community facilities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to give grants to make facilities more resilient. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and maintain a grant program to harden community facilities against man-made and natural disasters. Establishes the Community Facility Hardening Fund. | Dead |
| HB3344 | Relating to the total return distribution method for endowment care cemeteries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would let a cemetery opt to use the total return distribution method to fund its care. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes a cemetery authority to elect to use the total return distribution method to fund endowment care of the cemetery. | Dead |
| SB1022 | Relating to specialty vehicle registration plates; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lowers the number of vouchers and plates that small universities need for ODOT to make and issue car plates that represent the small schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.8). Modifies the special registration plate program. Lowers the threshold amount to start making and continue issuing special registration plates for certain public universities. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3538 | Relating to civics; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes the SOS the chief civics officer in the state and establishes a division in the SOS office for civics. The Act says that civics shall be taught in schools and that civics pro- grams shall be given to adults. The Act creates a task force to study and propose ideas to improve civics in this state. The Act creates the PRC as an office for people to make complaints about false campaign statements, investigate the complaints and make findings, including required warnings near certain statements. The Act takes effect when signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.9). Establishes the Secretary of State as the chief civics officer of this state and establishes the Division of Civic Engagement within the Secretary of State office. Directs the division to establish civics education in public schools and develop programs and outreach for adults to enhance civic engagement. Establishes the Civics Action Benchmarks Task Force to study and make recommendations on the steps to be taken to enhance the participation of Oregonians in civic affairs. Establishes the Commission on Political Rhetoric. Directs the commission to receive complaints alleging that a candidate for public office has made false statements with purposeful malice or reckless intent. Provides that if a supermajority of the commission determines that the subject of a complaint made false statements with purposeful malice or reckless intent, the voters’ pamphlet and other publications containing the candidate’s statements must also contain a warning statement specified by the Act. Appropriates moneys to the Secretary of State and Commission on Political Rhetoric to fund the programs established in the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| SB1013 | Relating to children's advocacy center services. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives moneys to the Liberty House for CAC services. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for distribution to the Liberty House to provide children’s advocacy center services. | Dead |
| HB3625 | Relating to public safety. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a public safety agency can charge a fee to an entity that uses a lot of services. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Allows a public safety agency to charge fees to an entity that overuses the public safety ser- vices of the agency. Allows the public safety agency to request that the governing body of the ju- risdiction in which the entity is located issue a notice to the entity about the overuse of public safety services. Requires the governing body to allow the entity an opportunity to cure the overuse. Allows the governing body to petition the Secretary of State to take action against the entity for failure to cure the overuse. Requires a public safety agency that imposes fees to annually report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public safety. Sunsets on January 2, 2031. | Dead |
| HJR18 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to increased expenditures under initiated measures. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Amends the state Constitution. Requires a petitioner to provide a means by which added costs from an IM will be paid. Refers the amendment to the people at the next election. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). 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. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB3581 | Relating to sex crime statutes of limitation; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7). Removes the statute of limitations for most felony sex crimes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HJR19 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to the impeachment of judges. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act proposes a change to the Constitution to let some judges be taken out of office. The Act refers the change to the people at the next regular general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). 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. Limits the judgment to re- moval from office and disqualification from holding other public office in this state. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB3537 | Relating to redistricting; providing that this Act shall be referred to the people for their approval or rejection. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act states that two-thirds of House and Senate districts are to have +/- 5% parity in major party sign-ups for 2031 and later years, where sound. The Act is referred to voters to say yes or no at the Nov. 2026 election. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that, when reapportioning state House of Representatives and state Senate districts, elector registration from one major party shall be within five percentage points of the elector reg- istration from the other major party, when practicable, so as to achieve five percent parity in at least 40 state House of Representatives districts and 20 state Senate districts. Provides that the major party parity factor shall be given greater weight than other listed factors to the extent per- mitted under the United States Constitution and federal law. Refers the Act to voters for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HJR17 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to the Secretary of State. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure proposes to make the SOS a nonpartisan office with a term of six years. This change would apply to elections for the SOS that are on or after 2032. The measure asks voters to say yes or no at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to make the Secretary of State a nonparti- san 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. | Dead |
| HJR16 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to the office of Lieutenant Governor. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure creates the office of Lt. Governor. The measure places the Lt. Governor as first in the line to succeed the Governor if that office is vacant. The measure asks voters to say yes or no to the proposal at the 2026 general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish the office of Lieutenant Gov- ernor 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 Gover- nor at four years, but provides that the first term of office, elected in the 2028 regular general election, is only two years. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| SCR26 | Reaffirming the State of Oregon's commitment to its relationship with Taiwan. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the ways Oregon and Taiwan have worked together over the years. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Reaffirms the State of Oregon’s commitment to its relationship with Taiwan. | Dead |
| HB3870 | Relating to public safety; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to OBDD to pay for local public safety projects. (Flesch Readabil- ity Score: 69.9). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to local governments and other entities for purposes related to public safety. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB3881 | Relating to workforce requirements for public improvements constructed by educational institutions; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Adds some schools to what counts as a “qualifying agency” so that a requirement to use apprentices in school construction projects will apply to those schools. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Adds school districts , education service districts and public charter schools that apply for and receive a matching fund grant from the Department of Education to the definition of “quali- fying agency” for the purpose of applying apprenticeship requirements in connection with con- structing public improvement projects. Specifies demonstrations that contractors must make to a qualifying agency as part of the qualifying agency’s responsibility determination. Specifies exemptions for contractors that enter into project labor agreements with school districts Provides that school districts that are qualifying agencies must retain in the school district general fund the amount of any reduction in payment to a contractor as a consequence of the contractor’s failure to meet apprenticeship requirements . Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3709 | Relating to modifications to an urban growth boundary. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act increases lands that a smaller city can add to its UGB through a temporary exchange program. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Allows a city with a population of 20,000 or fewer to bring exchanged lands into its urban growth boundary, under a temporary program, without regard to the land designation. | Dead |
| HB3934 | Relating to a deceased spousal unused exclusion amount for Oregon estate tax; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would let a surviving spouse claim the unused amount of the first spouse’s es- tate tax exclusion. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent. Applies to estates of decedents who die on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3935 | Relating to initiating false reports; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates new crimes about initiating a false report. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree. Punishes by a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the second degree. Punishes by a maximum of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Renames the crime of initiating a false report to initiating a false report in the third degree. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3954 | Relating to the Oregon National Guard. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the AG to not allow a person or unit of the guard to be called into active service except for certain reasons. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits the Adjutant General from assisting or allowing the United States Department of De- fense or any branch thereof to communicate with any individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard for purposes of calling the individual or unit into active service unless the active service is for a certain listed reason. Prohibits the Adjutant General from allowing an individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard to be called into active service if the call into active service results in the Oregon National Guard being incapable of responding to a statewide emergency. Directs that an Adjutant General be immediately dismissed for violations of the Act. | Dead |
| HB3967 | Relating to judges. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may take some money and benefits from judges. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Provides that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may impound funds and eliminate benefits available to a judge that are not compensation to which a judge is entitled under the Oregon Con- stitution. | Dead |
| HB3974 | Relating to residential applicant screening charges. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act caps screening fees paid by residential tenants. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Limits the applicant screening charge a residential landlord may collect to $20. Extends certain screening requirements to include landlords who do not collect an applicant screening charge. Al- lows landlords to alternatively accept third-party screening reports provided by an applicant. | Dead |
| SB1212 | Relating to student use of personal electronic devices. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires school districts to have a policy that does not allow students to use cell phones and similar devices. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices. | Dead |
| HB3708 | Relating to modifications to an urban growth boundary. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act relaxes the rules that relate to home prices for lands that are being added to a smaller city’s UGB through a temporary program. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Allows a city with a population of 20,000 or fewer to bring lands into its urban growth bound- ary, under a temporary program, under lower requirements for the percentage of affordable housing. | Dead |
| HB3964 | Relating to health insurance contract negotiations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes a process for some health insurers and some health providers to choose to mediate and arbitrate when they are not able to agree on a new contract. Tells the Governor to make the final decision and permits penalties. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Establishes a voluntary mediation and arbitration process that certain health insurers and pro- viders may participate in if the insurer and provider are unable to reach an agreement during a contract renewal negotiation. Establishes that the Governor, or a designee, shall issue a final de- termination in the arbitration process and may impose penalties for failure to comply. | Dead |
| HB2523 | Relating to incentives for film production or media production; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act increases the amount of the tax credit allowed for people who make local films and extends the credit sunset. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Increases the amount of reimbursement from the Oregon Production Investment Fund that is available to a local filmmaker or media production services company. Applies to fiscal years begin- ning on or after July 1, 2025. Extends the sunset on the tax credit for certified film production development contributions to Oregon Production Investment Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2645 | Relating to disclosures of impeachment information by prosecutors. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a law enforcement unit may not discipline a police officer because the officer’s name has been put on a certain list of witnesses kept by the DA. The Act tells DAs to write policies. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Prohibits a law enforcement unit from disciplining a police officer because the officer’s name has been placed on a list maintained by a prosecutor’s office of recurring witnesses for whom there is known potential impeachment information, or because the officer’s name may otherwise be subject to disclosure pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). Requires a district attorney to develop and adopt a written protocol addressing potential impeachment disclosures. | Dead |
| HB2888 | Relating to fish hatcheries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indi- cator stock. | Dead |
| HB2847 | Relating to subtractions for start-up expenditures; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax subtraction for start-up expenditures. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Creates a subtraction from taxable income for start-up expenditures. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2399 | Relating to a grant program for individuals who do public service. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells DAS to start a grant program for persons who agree to serve in a uniformed ser- vice or public service program and complete the basic or initial training. Creates the Restart Initi- ative Fund. Exempts from personal income tax the amount of an awarded grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide one-time grants to individuals who agree to serve in a uniformed service or public service program and complete the basic or initial training for the uniformed service or public service program. Cre- ates the Restart Initiative Fund. Exempts from personal income tax the amount of an awarded grant. | Dead |
| HB2895 | Relating to tax credits for employing youth workers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for youth employment. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.7). Creates an income tax credit for employing up to three youth workers. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2333 | Relating to ballot measures addressing property taxes; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 77.8). Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. Requires the task force to study the impacts of the ballot measures on local governments and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to taxation no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2857 | Relating to air ambulance services; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a program in ODEM to give subsidies to some air ambulance bases to help them pay for their costs of operation. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Establishes an air ambulance readiness program in the Oregon Department of Emergency Man- agement to provide subsidies to qualified air ambulance bases to offset the costs of operating air ambulances and air ambulance services. Requires the department to biennially report on the pro- gram to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2869 | Relating to services provided by school districts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires a school district to keep money paid for a public contract for services until the contract is complete. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires school districts to withhold retainage when entering into a public contract to provide services required by state or federal law. | Dead |
| HB2872 | Relating to ensuring the credentials of persons working in regulated building activities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires proof that workers in building trades have licenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires that a building permit must show a contractor’s Construction Contractors Board li- cense number if the contractor is known. Requires an inspector performing building code inspection as part of a building inspection pro- gram, or for the purpose of enforcing a municipal ordinance, to require that persons engaged in regulated building activity present evidence of compliance with applicable licensing, registration or certification requirements. Requires that a municipality ensure that a person issued a permit for work requiring a Con- struction Contractors Board license holds a Construction Contractors Board license. Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to inform the Construction Contractors Board when the director has reason to believe that a person is engaging, has engaged or plans to engage in a violation of laws regarding licensing and endorsement of con- struction contractors. | Dead |
| HB2531 | Relating to services provided by the City of Salem; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would fund the fire, emergency and police services of the City of Salem. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Appropriates moneys to fund the provision of fire response, emergency medical and law enforcement and public safety services by the City of Salem. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2334 | Relating to ballot measures addressing property taxes; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 77.8). Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. Requires the task force to study the impacts of the ballot measures on the cost of public higher education and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to taxation no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3131 | Relating to the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to a state agency for uses related to working lands. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund. Establishes a maximum limit for payment of expenses by the board from the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2655 | Relating to a strategic housing stipend pilot program. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes OHCS create a housing stipend pilot program in three counties. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a housing stipend pilot program to provide housing stipends to individuals to move to a city where their labor is expected to benefit economic development of the city. Establishes an advisory board to consult with the de- partment on the development of the program. Requires the department to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on the program on or before September 15, 2028. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for the program. Sunsets on January 2, 2031. | Dead |
| HB2774 | Relating to supervised parenting time. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act prohibits a parent from being left alone with a child if the parent commits certain acts with a gun. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Directs the court to prohibit unsupervised parenting time with a parent who committed abuse if the abuse involved certain acts with a firearm. | Dead |
| HB2893 | Relating to screening of replacement workers during a labor dispute in an industry involving hazardous materials. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a strike. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Busi- ness Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor dis- putes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials. Directs the division to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly with findings. | Dead |
| HCR7 | Declaring that it is the policy of the State of Oregon to protect refugee and immigrant rights. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Declares a state policy on human rights. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Declares that it is the policy of the State of Oregon to protect refugee and immigrant rights. | Dead |
| HJM7 | Urging Congress to pass legislation recognizing that the full spectrum of reproductive health care is a fundamental right of all women. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges Congress to pass a law about reproductive health care rights of women. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Urges Congress to pass legislation recognizing that the full spectrum of reproductive health care is a fundamental right of all women. | Dead |
| HB2843 | Relating to veterans' benefits. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a fund to assist veterans to apply for federal and state benefits and aid. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Veterans’ Benefits Economic Development Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to assist veterans and family members of veterans to apply for federal and state veterans’ benefits and aid. Allocates lottery moneys to the fund. Sunsets January 2, 2035. | Dead |
| HB2833 | Relating to identification of law enforcement. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes more police doing crowd management work wear ID. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Expands the application of a law requiring law enforcement officers working in crowd manage- ment to wear certain identification to crowd management in a city with a population of over 5,000, instead of 60,000. | Dead |
| HB2867 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2061 | Relating to the long term care workforce; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a task force about how to recruit and retain certain long term care workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.0). Establishes a task force on the recruitment and retention of case managers and adult protective services workers. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2845 | Relating to veterans; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes many changes to ODVA laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Digest: Makes ODVA create more positions and hire staff. Makes ODVA create pilot programs on suicide prevention and workforce training. Makes ODOT accept an ID issued by USDOD or USDVA. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires an appropriation to Declares that it is the goal of the Legislative Assembly to fund the Department of Veterans’ Affairs from the General Fund to be in an amount that is not less than $10,000,000 , from the General Fund, in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation. Requires the Director of Veterans’ Affairs to add additional full-time positions within the de- partment. Creates in the department the position of Veterans Employment Coordinator. Allows the director to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor. Requires the director and deputy director to be a veteran who has received a discharge or release under other than dishonorable conditions. Allows the director to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor. Directs the department to develop and implement one or more pilot programs for suicide pre- vention and workforce training and preparation. Allows moneys in the Veterans’ Services Fund to be used for the pilot programs. Requires the Department of Transportation to accept, for issuing a driver license, an identification card issued by the United States Department of Defense or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Directs the director to distribute moneys appropriated for county veterans’ service offi- cer programs on a quarterly basis. Directs the department to provide a report on the quarterly distribution process. Changes who is allowed to request county veteran discharge records. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000, the cap on the individual grant amount that is allowed under the Veteran Educational Bridge Grant Program. Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to work with the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission and the Judicial Department to develop a plan for establishing and maintaining a veterans’ court in each county or judicial district. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2717 | Relating to state financial administration; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the state may issue bonds for a veterans’ home in Roseburg. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitu- tion for construction of a veterans’ home in Roseburg. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2038 | Relating to nuclear energy. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells ODOE to study nuclear energy and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 63.4). Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including nuclear waste dis- posal legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy. Requires the department to consult with the Public Utility Commission and the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council and to engage with the federally recog- nized Indian tribes in this state, relevant state agencies and stakeholders. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committee of the House of Represen- tatives on climate, energy and environment not later than September 15, 2026 January 31, 2027 . Sunsets January 2, 2027 2028 . | Dead |
| HB2764 | Relating to programs in the Department of Human Services; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a work group to make a multi-sector plan for aging. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Directs the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a work group to develop a framework for a multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by the Department of Human Services. Specifies the membership and duties of the work group. Requires the work group to submit three reports to the committees and interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services, by December 1, 2025, during the 2026 regular session of the Legislative Assembly and by July 1, 2026, respectively. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2722 | Relating to the use of integrators for vehicle-related transactions. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says ODOT must work with others to help with some of ODOT’s responsibilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with any qualified provider to assist the department with certain functions of the department. | Dead |
| HJM2 | Urging Congress to change the funding of veterans' health care from a discretionary entitlement to a permanent and direct entitlement. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges Congress to change how veterans’ health care is funded. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Urges Congress to change the funding of veterans’ health care from a discretionary entitlement to a permanent and direct entitlement. | Dead |
| HB2756 | Relating to international economic relations; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the OBDD to establish a trade center for Oregon in Taiwan and Vietnam. The Act allows the OBDD to establish up to five additional trade centers or offices in some other countries. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Digest: The Act tells the OBDD to establish a trade center for Oregon in Taiwan and Vietnam. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish the Oregon-Taiwan Trade Center and the Oregon-Vietnam Trade Center. Authorizes the department to establish up to five additional trade centers or offices in countries that the department determines are critical commercial partners. Requires the department to study options to reorganize the agency staff structure for the pur- pose of fostering economic relations and expanding trade between Oregon and the countries in which a trade center is established. Requires the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2832 | Relating to preferences for veterans in public employment. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that veterans have to show proof that they can get special preference when they apply for government jobs. They can use any documents that show they qualify. If a public employer decides not to talk with a veteran about being hired for a job, they must write down why they made that choice. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Provides that a veteran must provide evidence of eligibility for veterans’ preference in public employment at the time of application for a civil service position. Provides that evidence may in- clude any documentation demonstrating preference eligibility. Modifies the law relating to interviews of veterans for vacant civil service positions. Provides that a public employer that does not interview a veteran must provide a written explanation of reasons for the decision. | Dead |
| HB2840 | Relating to designated representatives. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes the law about PERS benefits for a person who takes release time. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Modifies provisions relating to retirement benefits for a public employee who is a designated representative of an exclusive representative and takes release time. | Dead |
| HB2863 | Relating to capital gains treatment of affordable housing property; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act exempts gain on the sale of certain property in a low-income census tract from tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Allows a subtraction from federal taxable income of the gain from the sale of opportunity zone property, defined as property in a low-income census tract developed for affordable housing and held for a stated period of time. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2883 | Relating to technology support structures; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes DLCD report on limiting tech towers’ impact on views. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 67.7). Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to conduct a study on methods to mitigate the impact of technology support structures on the aesthetics of certain areas. Requires the department to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use by September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2878 | Relating to carbon sequestration. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for sequestering carbon. The Act allows the State Treasurer to issue certain bonds for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under Article XI-E of the Oregon Constitution in an amount that produces $500 million in net proceeds for a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program. Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program. | Dead |
| HB2663 | Relating to motor vehicles. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a car dealer may give a short-term permit for a car that does not have proof it is following pollution control rules at the time the car is sold. The car dealer must tell the buyer that ODOT will not give the buyer a license plate and stickers unless the buyer has proof that the car meets these rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Permits a vehicle dealer to issue temporary registration permits for motor vehicles that do not have proof of compliance with pollution control equipment requirements. Requires the dealer to give written notice to a purchaser that the Department of Transportation will not issue stickers, regis- tration and plates unless proof of compliance is provided. | Dead |
| HB2897 | Relating to the eligibility of corporations to serve on juries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that corporations can serve on juries. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Makes corporations eligible to serve on juries. | Dead |
| HB2966 | Relating to a public finance task force; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a task force to study public financing options. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Establishes the State Public Finance Task Force. Directs the task force to study and make recommendations regarding public banking and other public financing options. Requires the task force to submit a report to a committee of the Legislative Assembly by September 1, 2027 De- cember 31, 2026 . Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2896 | Relating to state educational goals. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes changes to the education goals of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Modifies the educational goals of the state to take into consideration students’ aspirations, to provide students with a well-rounded education and to provide students with sufficient instructional time to meet students’ educational goals. Expands the state’s mission of education beyond high school. | Dead |
| HB2892 | Relating to state funding of county projects. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the state may not give money to a county for capital construction unless the county attests that it will not secede. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Provides that a state agency may not provide moneys to a county for capital construction unless the county attests that it will remain a county in the State of Oregon for a specified length of time. | Dead |
| HB2830 | Relating to materials for local water projects; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes rules for local governments about things used for water projects. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 64.9). Prohibits a local government, local contracting agency or local contract review board from en- acting, adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule or other law that prohibits, restricts or limits the evaluation, comparison or use of pipe or piping materials for a water project if the pipe or piping materials meet current standards or performance specifications of specified organizations and if moneys appropriated from the State Treasury directly or indirectly provided funding for the water project. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2720 | Relating to emergency preparedness. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Expands the duties of the State Resilience Officer. | Dead |
| HB3143 | Relating to fostering coexistence with beavers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act allows agencies to award moneys under a grant program related to living with beavers on private land. The Act directs an agency and a committee to report on the grant program. The Act gives moneys to the agency for the grant program. The Act goes into effect on the 91st day after the 2025 session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund. Authorizes the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to award block grants from the subaccount under the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program, on recommendations from the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Advisory Committee. Directs the department and the committee to jointly report on the grant program to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment on or before Septem- ber 15, 2027. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for deposit in the subaccount for purposes related to the grant program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| SB442 | Relating to services for COFA citizens; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the COFA Shared Services Office. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and ac- cessing benefits and services. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2702 | Relating to disaster response. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a fund for ODEM to give funds to local governments when needed to get federal aid or for disaster grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund. Provides that moneys in the fund may be used by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue grants to local governments to make matching contributions necessary to access federal aid or to assist or support disaster response efforts. | Dead |
| HB2644 | Relating to facilities used for imposition of the death penalty. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make the DOC study and report on the facilities used to carry out the death penalty in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Department of Corrections to study the facilities used to execute adults in custody at the Oregon State Penitentiary. Requires the department to report to the committees of the Leg- islative Assembly related to the judiciary by February 15 each year. Sunsets December 31, 2047. | Dead |
| HB2643 | Relating to combinations of vehicles. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a truck that pulls a trailer may also pull a farm trailer. However, the farm trailer must have a hitch that does not swivel and must not be longer than eight feet in length. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.1). Permits a motor vehicle drawing a trailer to also draw a farm trailer under specified conditions. | Dead |
| HJR11 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to initiative measures. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Demands at least 8% of those who voted in the last election for a Governor to sign an IM petition. Demands at least 10% of those who voted in the last election for a Governor to sign a petition to amend the Constitution. Demands that signatures must come from among all congres- sional districts. Takes effect if the people vote for it at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). 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. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB2732 | Relating to tax credits for crop donation; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes the tax credit for crop gifts by raising percentage of value allowed. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2821 | Relating to disclosure of information from executives of businesses receiving public moneys. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires the heads of businesses that receive at least $10 million in public funds over five years to file an SEI. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires directors and senior executives of businesses that receive $10 million or more in public moneys over a five-year period to file a statement of economic interest. | Dead |
| HB2856 | Relating to veteran housing services. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells ODVA to give grants to offset costs that groups incur but did not expect to incur in repurposing buildings for veteran housing. Creates a fund with lottery moneys to fund the grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to off- set unexpected increases in costs in repurposing buildings for veteran housing and housing pro- grams. Establishes the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund. Directs the State Treasury to transfer, each biennium, moneys from the Veterans’ Department of Veterans’ Affairs Dedicated Lottery Fund to the Veterans Housing Construction Cost Reduction Fund to be used by the de- partment to provide the grants. | Dead |
| HB2871 | Relating to tax returns. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells a business that gets over 20 percent of its receipts from public contracts to list amount with tax return. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Requires businesses receiving more than 20 percent of gross receipts from public contracts to include a statement of the amount received with a tax return filed with the Department of Revenue. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028. | Dead |
| HB2383 | Relating to mass transit districts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act defines “transit security officers.” The Act says the officers may give tickets to folks who do not follow mass transit district’s rules. The Act says the officers may use body cameras to record when they are on the job. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Authorizes the general manager of a mass transit district to appoint transit security officers to aid in the enforcement of mass transit ordinances. Defines “transit security officer.” Provides that a transit security officer may wear a video camera on the person’s body that re- cords the officer’s interactions with members of the public while the officer is on duty. Expands public records exemption for law enforcement officers of video recordings resulting from the opera- tion of a video camera worn upon the officer’s person to include transit security officers. | Dead |
| HB2880 | Relating to grants to small cities for public transit. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act allows an agency to give grants to some cities for public transit projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to certain small cities for the purposes of studying, developing and capitalizing public transit systems. Appropriates moneys to the department for the grant program. | Dead |
| HJR7 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to banks. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure amends a section of the Constitution to make it clear that the state may start a public bank. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). 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. | Dead |
| HB3096 | Relating to a tax credit for apprenticeships; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for apprenticeships. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities. Applies to all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2653 | Relating to emergency medical transport. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OHA to study ways to get more federal funding for ground medical trans- port. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study options to maximize federal funding for the ground emergency medical transport program. Directs the authority to submit findings to the in- terim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2903 | Relating to adjustment of classification of management service employees during an economic emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says when the Governor may declare an economic emergency. The Act would allow a state agency to change the employment status of certain jobs to at-will status. The Act would require a review and a report of the changes that were made. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0). Grants the Governor authority to declare an economic emergency. Authorizes state agencies to reclassify management service employees to at-will employment status and to adjust staffing levels of management service employees. Requires a state agency that reclassified management service employees to at-will employment status to review personnel adjustments made during the economic emergency to determine the value of those adjustments and to report findings to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly. | Dead |
| HB2398 | Relating to direct admissions to certain institutions of higher education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning schools. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2035. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state. Requires each high school in this state to provide certain information about students who received a high school diploma to specified community colleges and universities. Prohibits a student’s information from being provided unless that student consents. Sunsets on July 1, 2035. | Dead |
| HB2525 | Relating to a tax credit for political contributions; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a bigger amount for the tax credit that is allowed for gifts of money to political parties or to people who run for office. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Increases the maximum allowable amount of political contribution personal income tax credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2648 | Relating to student inventors. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Directs ODE to run a program to help student inventors. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Directs the Department of Education to establish a program to assist student inventors in the development of intellectual property and to assist education service districts in the acquisition of interests in intellectual property developed by student inventors. Establishes the Oregon Invents Partnership Fund. | Dead |
| HB2294 | Relating to theft of firearms. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act directs the CJC to classify theft of a firearm as a level 8 offense. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify theft of a firearm as a crime cate- gory 8 offense on the sentencing guidelines grid of the commission. | Dead |
| HB2836 | Relating to statements of economic interest. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires the heads of nonprofits to file a SEI if the nonprofit got at least $1 million in state funds or spoke to the legislature about getting state funds in the last five years. Requires the heads of businesses to file a SEI if the business got at least $1 million in state funds in the last five years. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires a statement of economic interest to be filed by all members of the board of directors or governing body of a nonprofit that has either received or submitted testimony to the Legislative Assembly requesting $1 million or more in state capital construction funding over the previous five years. Requires a statement of economic interest to be filed by all members of the board of directors or governing body of any business that has received $1 million or more in state capital construction funding over the previous five years. | Dead |
| HB2642 | Relating to motor vehicle pollution control systems. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells DEQ to contract with businesses to test vehicles. The Act stops the DEQ from testing vehicles at its own stations or letting employees do the tests for their employers. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to contract with businesses to provide motor vehicle pollution control equipment testing. Prohibits the department from owning or operating motor vehicle pollution control testing stations. Prohibits the department from issuing a license to an employee of a fleet owner to inspect pollution control systems of fleet vehicles. | Dead |
| HB2765 | Relating to a grant program to prevent fuel spills. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells DEQ to create a grant program to prevent fuel spills. (Flesch Readability Score: 96.0). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop and maintain a grant program to prevent spills at fuel facilities. Establishes the Fuel Spills Mitigation Fund. | Dead |
| HB2766 | Relating to justice courts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gets rid of the law saying that a justice court may not become a court of record if the court is within 50 miles of the circuit court for the county in which the court is located. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). Removes the provision stating that a justice court may not become a court of record if the court is located within 50 driving miles of the circuit court for the county in which the justice court is located. | Dead |
| HB2763 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a fund to help people after emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Establishes the Oregon Individual Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Dis- aster Response Fund. Continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the Oregon Depart- ment of Emergency Management for assistance to individuals and households following emergencies. | Dead |
| HB2770 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a body to direct the state’s response after an emergency. The Act lets the Governor hire more people to do work during the emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Establishes the Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority. Provides that the Governor may activate the authority when declaring a state of emergency. Directs the authority, when activated, to coor- dinate initial crisis services, coordinate recovery and mitigation efforts and coordinate the provision of emergency aid to local governments or private entities. Authorizes the Governor, when the authority is activated, to hire additional state agency per- sonnel to perform duties related to the emergency. | Dead |
| HB3240 | Relating to development of staging areas for emergency response. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to develop staging areas for emergency response in the state. The Act sets up a committee to give advice to ODEM about the staging areas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Establishes the Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropri- ates moneys in the fund to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for the implementa- tion of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates an advisory committee within the department to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from the fund. | Dead |
| HB2946 | Relating to an audit of the Department of Transportation. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires a fiscal audit of ODOT. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Requires the Secretary of State to perform a fiscal audit of the Department of Transportation. | Dead |
| HB2669 | Relating to part-time faculty at community colleges; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would set new laws with respect to the rate that community colleges must pay part-time faculty. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Digest: The Act tells community colleges how to decide the rate at which part-time faculty will be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires community colleges to pay part-time faculty at the same rate, on a per-hour basis, as a certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time faculty to prepare for and teach a course who teach comparable courses . Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the purpose of paying for salary equity. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2911 | Relating to a paid sick leave tax credit; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for sick leave paid by employers. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.5). Creates an income tax credit for certain employers that are required to provide paid sick leave. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2030. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2842 | Relating to childcare programs for people with governmental business; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give out for programs for giving free childcare to people to do government business. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give out to expand a program for giving free childcare to people to do government business. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to an organization and Polk County for expanding a program programs for providing free drop-in childcare for people with business at a county courthouse or with other governmental business and data collection regarding the program programs . Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2715 | Relating to higher education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows for all public higher learning schools to offer PhDs that are approved by the HECC. Limits certain public higher learning schools to five PhD programs until 2044. Blocks public money to be used for aid to students at certain higher learning schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). Authorizes all public universities in Oregon to offer doctoral degrees, subject to approval by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Limits certain public universities to five doctoral pro- grams until 2044. Prohibits the commission or any other state agency from using public moneys to award schol- arships, grants or other types of student financial aid to post-secondary institutions of education that offer coursework primarily online and have been found to have engaged in fraudulent or predatory practices against students or prospective students. | Dead |
| HB2709 | Relating to a warrantor's obligations with respect to extended warranties for motor vehicles; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Says a person may not get a fee from a resident to cover the resident’s car with an ex- tended warranty if the person knows that the car does not qualify for the warranty. Tells the person to ask for enough information to decide whether the car qualifies. Says that the person must cover the car even if it doesn’t qualify if the person takes a fee from the resident. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Prohibits a warrantor from accepting a fee from a resident for an extended warranty unless the warrantor knows that the resident’s motor vehicle qualifies for coverage under the extended war- ranty. Requires the warrantor to request and obtain information needed to assess whether the motor vehicle qualifies for coverage. Requires a warrantor to provide coverage under an extended warranty for a motor vehicle that does not qualify for coverage if the warrantor accepted a fee to provide the extended warranty. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2839 | Relating to the military; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act gives money to OMD to staff the Service Member and Family Support Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Department for the Service Member and Family Support Program in the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2851 | Relating to critical infrastructure. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes a definition for two crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies the definition of “critical infrastructure” to include a terrestrial-based cable or wire communication facility for purposes of the crimes of domestic terrorism in the first degree and do- mestic terrorism in the second degree. | Dead |
| HB2710 | Relating to participant eligibility in the Address Confidentiality Program; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes it so that the victims of child abduction are on the list of those that are able to join the Address Confidentiality Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of child abduction. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2724 | Relating to corporate registration for federal selective service. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells companies that each year they must send to the state tax agency a notice stating the company registered, or tried to register, for the draft. The company must file the notice when the company files a tax return. Lets the company file the notice within three years after filing the tax return. Tells the state tax agency not to allow subtractions or credits if the company does not file the notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). Requires every corporation to annually file an affidavit with the Department of Revenue at- testing that the corporation has registered or attempted to register with the United States Selective Service System. Directs the department to disallow all state corporate excise or income tax sub- tractions and credits claimed by the corporation if the corporation fails to file an affidavit with the corporation’s tax return. Allows the corporation to comply with the law by filing an affidavit within three years after filing a return. | Dead |
| HB2752 | Relating to revenue estimates; declaring an emergency; providing for revenue estimate modification that requires approval by a two-thirds majority. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes the kicker estimate to fund disaster help and UAL relief. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Increases the amount of the estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund re- venue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Requires that the difference between the amount actually collected and the amount estimated after the close of the 2023 regular session be used for disaster preparedness and for application against unfunded actuarial liability of the Public Employees Retirement System. Provides for the return to taxpayers of surplus revenue over the adjusted estimate amount if the constitutional threshold is exceeded. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2876 | Relating to county governing bodies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make all counties have a nonpartisan board of commissioners unless voters in the county choose not to do so. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Provides that the governing body of a county shall be a nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by the people of the county unless county voters choose not to do so. Requires a county to provide by ordinance or resolution for the structure of the board, the board districts, if any, the election procedures and compensation for the commissioners if the county voters have not chosen to exempt the county from the provisions. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3170 | Relating to community resilience; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes changes to laws about networks that help people prepare for and respond to disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services for providing grants for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2657 | Relating to building codes applicable to essential facilities; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Lets a state board set licensing standards for doing masonry work in essential buildings. Lets another board set standards for putting in fire proofing materials in essential buildings. Tells a state agency to adopt rules that say that there must be good fire proof materials in essential buildings. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8) Permits the Building Codes Structures Board to adopt licensing standards for performing struc- tural masonry in essential facilities. Permits the Construction Contractors Board to adopt licensing standards for applying or installing fireproofing materials in essential facilities. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules for adequate fireproofing in all newly constructed essential facilities. Specifies minimum provisions required in the department’s rules. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2824 | Relating to prescription drugs for veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires CCO drug outlets to give certain veterans a 7-day supply of a drug at no cost if the veteran cannot get the drug from the VA. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense a seven-day supply of a pre- scription drug to a veteran with a disability, at no cost to the veteran, if the veteran is unable to obtain the prescription drug through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. | Dead |
| HJM5 | Urging federal officials to expand public school funding and to practice restraint in funding vouchers and private charter schools. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges changes in how U.S. moneys are spent on education. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Urges the President, the United States Secretary of Education and Congress to continue to ex- pand public funding for kindergarten through 12th grade public education and to refrain from si- phoning off public school funding to support school voucher and private charter school programs. | Dead |
| HB2769 | Relating to emergency management; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OBDD to give info about emergencies to small businesses. The Act tells OBDD to run a program to give grants to small businesses to prepare for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a registry of small businesses interested in receiving communications relating to emergency management. Directs the department to use the registry to communicate information relating to emergency management to small busi- nesses. Directs the department to develop and implement a program to provide grants and assistance to small businesses to strengthen emergency resilience. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2827 | Relating to goods necessary to address emergencies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the Governor may require persons to make, sell or supply goods if needed for an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Governor, if necessitated by an emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for the manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods. Specifies con- ditions under which a person may reject such orders. Provides that a person that accepts an order is not liable for contractual damages resulting from an act or omission necessary for compliance with the Act. | Dead |
| HB2646 | Relating to the disclosure of private information. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a new crime about disclosing private data. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information. Punishes by a maximum of six months’ imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both. | Dead |
| HB2858 | Relating to emergency management; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices re- lating to statewide coordination of emergency management. Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facilities and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for investments to improve statewide emergency preparedness. Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to make grants for public safety projects. Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Stan- dards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training. Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Di- rects the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management oper- ations. Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans. Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county’s emergency preparedness. Delays the date on which responsibility for management of the emergency notification system is transferred to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2424 | Relating to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows the head of ODVA to appoint a deputy. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Allows the Director of Veterans’ Affairs to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor. | Dead |
| HB2762 | Relating to traffic violations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says it is an offense to sleep in danger zone near the road. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.4). Creates the offense of sleeping in a highway danger zone. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250. | Dead |
| HB2723 | Relating to backup power sources. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODHS to require certain health care facilities to have backup power sources. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring licensed long term care facilities, outpatient renal dialysis facilities and residential facilities to acquire and maintain backup power sources to be used during power outages. | Dead |
| HB2859 | Relating to services for veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells ODVA and the Governor to ask for funds for ODVA at a certain level and tells the legislature to fund ODVA at that level. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request a certain level of funding. Requires the Governor’s budget to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Requires the Legislative Assembly to fund the department at a certain level of funding. Provides that the requirements do not apply under certain negative economic conditions. | Dead |
| HB2820 | Relating to compensation ratios in certain nonprofit corporations; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells a public agency not to take an offer for a public contract from a not-for-profit company if the person who earns the most money at the company earns more than 50 times as much as the person who earns the least money. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1. Requires a contracting agency to disclose the prohibition in an advertisement or solicitation for the public contract and provide in the public contract that a failure to comply subjects the covered entity to a termination of the public contract and debarment or disqualification, as appropriate. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2890 | Relating to small business economic development in rural areas of the state. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act allows the OIC to give grants for economic development in rural areas of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic develop- ment in rural areas of this state. Authorizes the council to provide monetary awards to the winners of contests that are designed to attract invention, innovative and entrepreneurial solutions and op- portunities in rural areas of this state. Establishes the Oregon Fund for Rural Small Business Development. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the council to implement the grant program. | Dead |
| HB2884 | Relating to returning hatchery fish. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to annually assess the effects of rules about hatchery fish that return to hatcheries. The Act tells the agency to report on what the agency learns. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to annually assess the effects of provisions related to the disposition of hatchery-produced fish carcasses and report the results to committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources. | Dead |
| HB2654 | Relating to the emergency veterans housing program. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act creates and funds an OHCS program for housing disabled veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Ser- vices Department. Requires the department, in coordination with the Department of Veterans’ Af- fairs and an advisory board, to award grants for the project costs of residential housing for persons of lower income who are service-disabled veterans and their families. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for the program. Sunsets January 2, 2030. | Dead |
| HB2776 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3317 | Relating to political expenditures by publicly traded corporations; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Says that a big company that gives more than $100 to another person for political rea- sons must first get approval from shareholders to do so. Tells the big company that gives out money for a political reason to let people know it has done so. Tells the heads of the company that they must let people know what interest they have in the person to which the big company gave the money. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires a publicly traded corporation that makes a political expenditure of more than $100 in a calendar year to first obtain approval for the political expenditure from shareholders by an affir- mative vote of the majority of shares entitled to vote. Requires a corporation to disclose the amount, recipient and purpose of each political expendi- ture in excess of $100 in each calendar year. Requires the directors and officers of a publicly traded corporation to disclose a statement of economic interest that provides certain information with re- spect to the director’s or officer’s interest in the recipient of the political expenditure or in the candidate or expected change in policy for which the publicly traded corporation made the political expenditure. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3290 | Relating to alcohol delivery. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OLCC to look at alcohol delivery. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study alcohol delivery. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3264 | Relating to fire service professional training standards; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells DPSST to look at fire service professional training standards and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study fire service profes- sional training standards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3293 | Relating to seaport transportation infrastructure resilience. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on the resilience of seaports. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3331 | Relating to catastrophic disaster. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that a portion of dividends paid by SAIF must be redirected into a fund for disaster preparedness. The Act creates a board to advise on how the fund is used. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.1). Provides that a percentage of dividends paid by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation are redirected to a fund for catastrophic disaster preparedness. Creates an advisory board to advise on expenditures from the fund and on other policy improvements. Directs the advisory board to make recommendations on or before February 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2870 | Relating to campaign reform. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a panel of eight people to look into false campaign comments. Creates penalties for someone who makes false campaign comments. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Creates the Oregon Campaign Review Commission to investigate complaints of false statements made by candidates or political committees. Establishes sanctions for violations of false statement law. Applies to campaigns conducted for elections held on or after January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3273 | Relating to the Oregon Safety Assessment Program. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to the Fire Marshal for OrSAP. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.7). Appropriates moneys to the Department of the State Fire Marshal for personnel costs related to the Oregon Safety Assessment Program (OrSAP). | Dead |
| HB3261 | Relating to diesel fuel; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act creates the Task Force on Renewable Diesel and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Establishes the Task Force on Renewable Diesel. Directs the task force to study the availability of renewable diesel, estimate current and future demand for diesel fuels, study incentives for in- creasing the availability of renewable diesel and study the implications of removing petroleum diesel from the state marketplace. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3280 | Relating to rural medical training facilities; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities. The Act tells the task force to research issues related to shortages of nurses and other medical professionals in rural areas. The Act would end the task force on a certain date. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Establishes a Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities. Directs the task force to inves- tigate issues related to alleviating a shortage of skilled and experienced nurses and medical tech- nicians in or near Douglas County. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3269 | Relating to correctional facility staffing plans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would create a staffing committee at each DOC facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Establishes a correctional facility staffing committee within each Department of Corrections facility. Directs the committee to develop a written facility-wide staffing plan. Directs department facilities to implement the staffing plan. Directs the committee to periodically review and modify the staffing plan. | Dead |
| HB3271 | Relating to the State Department of Energy; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires a study on the laws about energy incentives. The Act would require ODOE to submit a report of the results of the study by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the State Department of Energy to study laws related to energy incentives and provide the results to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3277 | Relating to military spouses. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the OMD do a study on military spouses and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the Oregon Military Department to study military spouses. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3256 | Relating to motor vehicle pollution control systems. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act says that vehicles that are eight years old or newer do not need a certified pollution control system. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Exempts motor vehicles with model years that predate by eight years or less the date of regis- tration or renewal of registration from the requirement to be equipped with a certified pollution control system. | Dead |
| HB3297 | Relating to employment. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells BOLI to study issues related to employment in this state. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in this state. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3307 | Relating to emergency volunteers; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support and expand certain volunteer programs in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a grant program, in consultation with the OregonServes Commission, to support and expand community volunteer programs related to emergency management in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3253 | Relating to technology support structures. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act changes how counties review the siting of a telecom tower. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Establishes review criteria for telecommunications towers to be applied by counties. Requires existing telecommunications towers to comply with criteria by January 1, 2032. | Dead |
| HB3246 | Relating to circular economy; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would require a report on the plan to be turned in next year. The Act would ap- propriate funds to be used for technical aid for up to six symbiosis pilot programs. The Act would let certain county service districts fund water resource services with charges for services, works or commodities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would have the agency submit a report on the plan next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon. Requires the department to sub- mit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic de- velopment not later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to fund technical assistance for up to six industrial symbiosis pilot communities in Oregon. Authorizes certain county service districts to fund water resource management services with charges for district services, facilities or commodities. Sunsets on January 2, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3259 | Relating to public safety answering points. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support PSAP consolidation and up- grades. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets on January 2, 2045. | Dead |
| HB3291 | Relating to the military. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Oregon Military Department to study the military. Directs the department to sub- mit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans and emer- gency management not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HJR12 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to banks. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure amends a section of the Constitution to make it clear that the state may start a public bank. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). 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. | Dead |
| HB3310 | Relating to regional foodstuff supplies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates an agency to encourage certain acts related to ensuring there is food throughout this state. The Act tells the agency to create a related grant program. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 63.7). Establishes the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission. Requires the commission to develop and administer a grant program to provide grants for increasing the amount, availability and security of regional foodstuff supplies. | Dead |
| HB3332 | Relating to horse racing. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes the uses of certain moneys that the ORC receives from racing hubs. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Modifies the uses for certain moneys received by the Oregon Racing Commission from Multi- Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs. Requires entities that re- ceive distributions of such moneys to expend the moneys and report on the expenditures within a certain time period. Provides for clawback if a recipient fails to expend the moneys or report on expenditures. Provides that moneys that are clawed back be deposited in a fund for horse and jockey safety. Provides that certain moneys that the commission does not expend within a fiscal biennium are deposited in the fund. | Dead |
| HB3275 | Relating to tuition at post-secondary institutions of education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells public higher learning schools not to charge tuition and fees larger than the resi- dent rate for those linked to the armed forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires public universities and community colleges to charge tuition and fees no greater than the resident rate for an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States and for a spouse or dependent child of an active member of the Armed Forces of the United States. | Dead |
| HB3272 | Relating to academic credits at public institutions of higher education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells colleges to give course credit to an incoming student who took part in certain programs while the student was in high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an enrolled student completed a high school class or participated in a high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution. Requires the institution to award two or four academic credits to each student who participated in specified programs affiliated with national organizations. Prohibits an institution from requiring certain students to take an introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at the institution as a prerequisite for taking more advanced courses at the institution. | Dead |
| HB3303 | Relating to infrastructure financing; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would require a study of how the state can help lower infrastructure and housing costs. The Act would require the agency doing the study to submit a report to the legisla- ture by mid-September. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon. Requires the department to submit a report of the findings of the study to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3319 | Relating to the authority of the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to set premium rates. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would allow for lower premiums for a type of insurance in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Permits the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to evaluate the risk the corporation has insured for employers during the past three years and reduce the premium the corporation charges the employer to reflect any reductions or mitigations in risk that result from an agreement between the employer and the corporation. Permits the corporation to specify in an agreement with the person that owns a new business or that assumes ownership of an existing business conditions under which the corporation will charge the person a reduced premium rate for a probationary period during which the corporation evaluates the person’s adherence to the terms of the agreement. | Dead |
| HB3285 | Relating to long-term recovery groups; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to support local groups that help prepare for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to identify long-term recovery groups operating in Oregon and to provide grants for their support. Establishes the Long-Term Recovery Group Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for the support of long-term recovery groups operating in areas experiencing an emergency. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3265 | Relating to retainage in public improvement contracts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3284 | Relating to aquaculture products; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facil- ities. The Act ends the program later. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2031. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3268 | Relating to the selection of directors for the school district in which the State Capitol is located. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires board members from the school district in which the State Capitol is located to represent zones. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Provides that directors of the district school board of the Salem-Keizer School District must be nominated and elected by zone. | Dead |
| HB3309 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates an account to help public bodies respond to emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Establishes the Oregon Public Assistance Grant Account as an account in the Oregon Disaster Response Fund. Continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management for funding to state agencies, local governments, special government bodies, federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations for specified emergency response ac- tivities. | Dead |
| HB3304 | Relating to employment benefits of education workers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OEBB to look at benefits for education workers and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to study the adequacy of benefits offered to edu- cation workers. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3320 | Relating to emergency management volunteers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would require a study of the means of granting a tax break to emergency vol- unteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the means of granting a tax benefit to emer- gency management volunteers. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3267 | Relating to veterans' recognition registration plates. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says veterans may use other types of ID to prove they served in the military when they want to get a special veterans’ plate for their car. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Provides for additional forms of identification that may be used by a person to prove status as a veteran when applying for a veterans’ recognition registration plate. | Dead |
| HB3279 | Relating to professional licensing during emergencies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that ODEM can give short-term licenses during emergencies to people who used to do certain health care jobs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Authorizes the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue temporary professional licenses during states of emergency to individuals formerly licensed by certain professional licensing boards. | Dead |
| HB3262 | Relating to wildfire recovery; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a fund that three state agencies may use to help protect from, recover from and restore property damaged by wildfires. Specifies what the agencies may use the moneys in the fund to do. Tells the State Fire Marshal to send some of the money to a fund that makes grants to rural fire protection districts. Tells insurers to pay a fee to a state agency for each property insurance policy the insurer issues in this state. Lets insurers get the money they pay back from policy hold- ers. Tells the state agency to put the money from the fee into the fund that the other three state agencies use. Sets a filing fee for property taxes and sets aside part of the fee for the wildfire pro- tection fund. Sunsets the Act on July 1, 2033. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.0). Establishes the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs the State Fire Marshal, the State Forestry Department and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from the fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and re- covery from wildfires. Requires the State Fire Marshal to reserve and transfer to a revolving fund a certain percentage of moneys from the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund for grants to rural fire protection districts. Requires an insurer each year to remit to Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a surcharge for each policy of insurance that is property insurance. Permits an insurer each year to recoup from insureds the amount the insurer remitted to the director. Requires the director to deposit the proceeds of the surcharge into the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Com- munity Protection Fund. Imposes a filing fee for property taxes and requires remission of the proceeds of the fee, less a specified percentage for administrative costs, to the Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund. Sunsets July 1, 2033. | Dead |
| HB3306 | Relating to taxable income exemption for military taxpayers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 received by a person 62 years of age or younger as retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces. The Act applies to tax years that start on or after January 1, 2025. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who has not attained 63 years of age be- fore the close of the taxable year for which a return is filed. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3270 | Relating to the Emergency Board. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act adds more members to the Emergency Board. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Expands the membership of the Emergency Board. Becomes operative upon adjournment sine die of the 2027 regular session of the Legislative Assembly. | Dead |
| HB3281 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the OMD do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires the Oregon Military Department to study veterans. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3287 | Relating to property tax exemption for disabled veterans; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would allow some veterans and the surviving spouses of some veterans to not pay some taxes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Grants a higher property tax exemption for the property of veterans with disabilities. Grants an exemption for a veteran’s surviving spouse who remains unmarried. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3282 | Relating to the restructuring of the Oregon Health Authority. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA operate better. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Directs the authority to report the findings of the contractor to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3298 | Relating to education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Directs ODE to study the state of education in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of education in the public schools of this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3296 | Relating to transportation infrastructure resilience. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODOT to conduct a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to the appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3255 | Relating to requirements for online businesses to provide contact methods to respond to customer concerns. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Says that an online business must have a telephone number and electronic mail address to hear and respond to customer concerns. Lets the Secretary of State check to see if the business obeys the requirement and to fine a business that does not obey. Says that the business can be barred from this state if it fails to comply again and again. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the on- line business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response. Permits the Secretary of State to test compliance with the Act and to impose civil penalties for a failure to comply or to administratively dissolve an online business or revoke the online business’s authority to transact business in this state if the Secretary of State determines that the failure to comply is intentional, willful and repeated. | Dead |
| HB3263 | Relating to carbon sequestration; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a specific area in which trees must be replanted. The Act creates a task force. The Act ends the task force a while later and creates an advisory board. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.2). Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2035. Establishes the Task Force on the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Establishes the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink Advisory Board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3300 | Relating to desalination; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a task force on desalination and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Establishes the Task Force on Desalination. Directs the task force to study the creation of a statewide desalination program. Requires the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to water no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3318 | Relating to civil penalties for violation of environmental laws. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that break some laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles. | Dead |
| HB3302 | Relating to a public corporation for establishing secure cash storage facilities in this state; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a public company to take and securely hold cash from people who do business in cash. Tells the company what its powers and functions are. Creates a fund the public company can use to carry out its functions. Tells the Secretary of State to audit the public company each year. Tells the Attorney General to defend the public company against actions brought against the company as it carries out its functions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Establishes the Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as an independent public corporation and prescribes the corporation’s purposes and powers. Directs the corporation to lease or acquire real property and construct or renovate offices, facilities and business locations throughout the state at which the corporation receives, handles, stores and dispenses cash and other valuable property. Establishes the Oregon Cash Depository Corporation Fund in the State Treasury and requires the corporation to deposit all moneys the corporation receives into the fund. Permits the corporation to invest the moneys in the fund and a fraction of the corporation’s deposits in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Subjects the corporation to an annual audit by the Secretary of State and requires the corpo- ration to respond to the recommendations in the audit report. Requires a study of the corporation’s operations every four years and a report to the Legislative Assembly. Requires the Attorney General to defend the corporation and the directors, officers and em- ployees of the corporation against a claim or charge brought for actions in performing the duties of the corporation. Becomes operative January 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3276 | Relating to airport infrastructure resilience. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the ODA to study how to make airports stronger and better and to report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Aviation to study issues related to improving airport infrastructure resilience and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3257 | Relating to licensure portability for military families. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other certifications held by members of military families. The Act makes OMD submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans and emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3266 | Relating to community water systems. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would tell DAS to study community water systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study community water systems. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water no later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3254 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells ODVA to report on the amount of federal moneys the state receives for each dollar the state spends for veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to report the amount of federal moneys the state receives for each dollar the state spends on outreach and programming for veterans and the amount of federal moneys received by service members and veterans in this state not later than December 1 of each year. | Dead |
| HB3305 | Relating to desalination; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act creates a state desalination agency and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Establishes the Oregon Desalination Authority. Directs the authority to study the development and maintenance of desalination facilities in this state. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3258 | Relating to economic development. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the OBDD to study economic development in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to conduct a study of economic devel- opment in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3289 | Relating to post-custodial workforce development. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study job training for persons upon release from custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Corrections to study issues related to post-custodial workforce de- velopment in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3288 | Relating to unemployment insurance taxes. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period. Requires the director to report the findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3274 | Relating to youth career-training opportunities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes new laws for youth career training opportunities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs. Makes student internship programs eligible for Career and Technical Education Revitalization grants. Modifies references in certain career and technical education funding provisions to focus on high demand jobs. Removes cap on the number of students that may participate in youth apprenticeship programs per biennium. | Dead |
| HB3299 | Relating to a special bridge district; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would allow for the creation of a bridge district in the area around Salem. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Authorizes the formation of a bridge district in the capital city region, consisting of Benton, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties. Authorizes the bridge district to levy property taxes for the purpose of planning, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining bridges over the Willamette River in the capital city region. Provides for the organization of a district board consisting of five members, one elected from each of the four counties in the capital city region and one elected from the district at large. Sunsets on January 2, 2030. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3311 | Relating to degrees offered by certain public universities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Removes the limit on the types of degrees that certain higher learning schools may offer. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Removes the limitation on the types of degrees that may be offered by Western Oregon Uni- versity, Southern Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University. | Dead |
| HB3292 | Relating to seaport transportation infrastructure resilience. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on the resilience of seaports. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3278 | Relating to public safety. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the OCJC to look at how different types of sentences effect recidivism rates and make a report about the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect of sentencing types on recidivism rates. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legis- lative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3308 | Relating to fuel. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply. The Act also says that governments must use renewable diesel fuel. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031. Requires all state and local government facilities to use renewable diesel for all diesel fuel requirements beginning in 2028. | Dead |
| HB3283 | Relating to animal sanctuaries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal sanctuaries. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries. Directs the department to submit findings to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to wildlife no later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3301 | Relating to ground transportation infrastructure resilience. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study ways to make roads strong against future challenges. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving ground trans- portation infrastructure resilience and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3369 | Relating to courthouses. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets the State Treasurer issue bonds to pay to expand courthouses. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance ex- pansion of courthouses. | Dead |
| HB3345 | Relating to vehicle registration plates. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that taxis and rideshare vehicles must have plates that have red letters and numbers. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires taxis and rideshare vehicles to have rideshare plates that have cherry red lettering and numbering. Creates the offense of failure to display rideshare plates. Punishes by a maximum fine of $250. | Dead |
| HB3376 | Relating to public defense; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the office of the district defender. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). Establishes the office of the district defender in each judicial district. Specifies the powers and duties of the district defender. Modifies the types of entities the Oregon Public Defense Commission may contract with for the provision of public defense services. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2861 | Relating to the military. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2877 | Relating to workforce assistance to veterans in the construction industry; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the con- struction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot pro- grams statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials indus- tries. Permits the department to use moneys in the Veterans’ Services Fund to develop, implement and maintain the pilot programs. Requires a report to the Legislative Assembly regarding the status of the pilot programs by September 15, 2026. Sunsets pilot programs on December 31, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB3150 | Relating to an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for volunteer firefighters. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2760 | Relating to emergency volunteers; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to pay back disaster response groups for their costs related to volunteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to reimburse certain nongovernmental entities for specified costs related to volunteers. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3140 | Relating to recreation; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that an operator can make a person who does recreation release the op- erator from some types of claims. Tells OBDD to study issues for the recreation industry and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that an operator may require a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence. Directs the Oregon Business Development Department, with the assistance of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to study issues facing the recreation industry and report to a committee of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys for study. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HJM3 | Requesting 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. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure asks for a special master to have a role in changes to U.S. laws about the environment and nature to make sure that the views of the states are thought about. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 63.1). 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. | Dead |
| HB2841 | Relating to instructors at institutions of higher education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires that a higher learning school must offer a certain amount of credit hours taught by full-time employees. The Act sets the amount by academic year. The Act tells each school to give HECC certain information. The Act tells HECC to report on the requirement to the legislature each year. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.3). Requires each community college and public university to have at least 65 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees of the college or university during the 2026-2027 academic year and at least 75 percent of the total number of credit hours offered to be taught by full-time employees every academic year thereafter. Requires each community college and public university to report annually to the Higher Edu- cation Coordinating Commission on compliance with the full-time employee requirement. Requires the commission to report annually to the Legislative Assembly on compliance with the full-time employee requirement by each community college and public university. | Dead |
| HB2664 | Relating to housing for veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells ODVA to make a program to buy housing properties and rent to veterans who need help with housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish and administer a program to acquire and manage residential properties for the benefit of veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, housing instability. Authorizes the department to enter into agreements with private entities to administer the program. | Dead |
| HB2754 | Relating to viewpoint discrimination in nonresidential tenancies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant’s ideas. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords. | Dead |
| HB2718 | Relating to vehicle dealers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act allows car dealers to turn in paperwork to the DMV in person. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 77.8). Allows vehicle dealers to submit vehicle-related documents in person at a field office of the Department of Transportation. | Dead |
| HB3110 | Relating to official flags. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires state and U.S. flags on public buildings to be flame hardy flags by July 4, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags. Directs public buildings to transition from displaying flags manufactured of flammable materials to flags manufactured of flame retardant materials by July 4, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2909 | Relating to public utilities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the OPUHSC as part of the ODEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Commission within the Oregon De- partment of Emergency Management. Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Fund. Establishes a grant program for the purpose of providing financial assistance to consumer-owned utilities for developing projects associated with natural disaster mitigation, prevention, response and recovery. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds to finance projects associated with natural disaster mitigation, prevention, response and recovery. | Dead |
| HB2771 | Relating to justice of the peace districts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act removes the law that stops a county from making a justice of the peace district that includes parts of some cities. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from estab- lishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court. | Dead |
| HB2751 | Relating to community health worker services; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OHA to create a project to expand the services for which community health workers may be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a two-year demonstration project in two counties to test whether expanding the scope of compensable services provided by community health workers can improve outcomes for low-income families and children at risk of entering the foster care system. Sunsets January 2, 2030. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2844 | Relating to emergency management; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices re- lating to statewide coordination of emergency management. Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facili- ties and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for invest- ments to improve statewide emergency preparedness. Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Stan- dards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training. Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Directs the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management operations. Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans. Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county’s emergency preparedness. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2907 | Relating to tax incentives for investment in community food resources; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for food banks and community gardens. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 76.5). Creates an income tax credit for investment in community gardens and food banks. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2879 | Relating to seismic event preparation; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a task force to study how a major seismic event will affect children and to prepare to meet the needs of children after such an event. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Task Force on Seismic Event Preparation. Directs the task force to conduct a study regarding the impacts of a major seismic event on children and to identify methods for pre- paring schools and communities to meet the needs of children following a major seismic event. Directs the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets task force on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2304 | Relating to fairs; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act allocates lottery money to the State Fair Council. The Act tells an agency to create a master plan for county fair building. The Act gives money related to the master plan. The Act allows the issuance of bonds for an emergency and evacuee center. The Act gives money to DAS for the Union County Fairgrounds. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Digest: The Act addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act allocates lottery money to the State Fair Council. The Act tells an agency to create a master plan for county fair building. The Act gives money related to the master plan. The Act allows the issuance of bonds for an emergency and evacuee center. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allo- cated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account. Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and report a master plan for county fairground capital construction. Specifies content and procedural requirements for the re- port. Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for consultant services related to the report. Authorizes the issuance of bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution to support the use of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center as a regional emergency and evacuee center. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2714 | Relating to support loans for small business activity in this state; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the State Treasurer to create a program to offer loans to small businesses that cannot operate at their usual levels during an emergency. Sets out how a business will qualify for a loan. Allows bonds to fund the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Directs the State Treasurer to develop and implement a small business support loan program that aids in supporting the economic activities of small businesses during times in which small businesses cannot conduct business activities at an ordinary or customary level because of a state- wide or regional emergency or other significant disruption of business activity. Specifies the struc- ture and funding for the program and describes features that the program must include. Specifies eligibility for small business support loans. Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue bonds to fund the program. Establishes the Small Business Support Loan Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2899 | Relating to tax incentives for firearms safety; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit and a new tax subtraction for expenses around gun safety background checks. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Creates a credit against personal income tax for the cost of a criminal history record check required by state law for a transfer of a firearm. Creates a subtraction from taxable income for mileage for travel associated with a criminal history record check. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2775 | Relating to discounted mortgage loans for installation of energy generation improvements. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells a state agency to see if it is possible to get discounts on home loans for putting in renewable energy systems. Shows examples of the kinds of systems the agency should look into. Tells the agency to report back its findings to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study the feasibility of providing discounted mortgage loans to home buyers who install energy generation improvements capable of providing electricity to a local utility. Directs the department to submit findings to interim com- mittees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy resources not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB3107 | Relating to Department of Environmental Quality regulatory processes; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act changes the way DEQ can agree to make a regulatory process work better or faster. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process. Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish standards to guide the department in the exercise of the department’s authority. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2835 | Relating to veterans; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells ODVA to create some agency staff jobs and gives lottery moneys for veterans’ programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to fill and utilize certain positions. Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans’ Services Fund for specified purposes. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB3111 | Relating to evictions; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act requires OHCS to make a mediation program for all evictions. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 60.7). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to establish an eviction mediation program. Requires residential landlords to provide information about the program in termination notices. Requires parties to eviction to participate in the program. Amends eviction mediation and settlement procedures. Becomes operative on July 1, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the department for the program. Allows tenants to use nonattorneys in eviction proceedings and allows the prevailing party to recover nonattorney costs. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2837 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2904 | Relating to education; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a task force to study the QEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Establishes the Oregon Quality Education Model Modernization Task Force. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2759 | Relating to quality assurance in the Judicial Department. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial De- partment. Directs the office to conduct audits of noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts and report incidents of judicial bias or egregious behavior to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability. | Dead |
| HB2524 | Relating to child care programs to support veterans' access to services; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODVA to make a program to give grants to court and community care programs for children of veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish a grant program for court and com- munity care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families. Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans’ Services Fund for the program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2913 | Relating to tax credits for veterans services; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for donations that aid veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Creates an income tax credit for a member of a military organization that contributes financial resources to the Veterans’ Educational Aid Account prior to the organization’s dissolution. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HJR6 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to imposition of tax on property for deposit in an emergency resilience fund. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure asks voters to impose a tax on property to pay for projects to reduce risks from disasters. The tax would end after 20 years. The measure asks voters to say yes or no at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution imposing a tax on property, providing that the tax is not subject to specified other constitutional limits on property taxes, providing that re- venues from the tax must be deposited in an emergency resilience fund, providing that moneys in the fund may be used only for emergency resilience projects, and repealing these provisions on June 30, 2046. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB2826 | Relating to veterans' courts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Directs ODVA to create a grant program to provide funding to counties for veterans’ courts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to pro- vide funding to Oregon counties for veterans’ courts. | Dead |
| HB3065 | Relating to local standards to promote housing stability; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes cities adopt local rental standards, which may include rent control. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires each city with a population of less than 200,000 to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2027. Allows adoption of rent control through local standards adopted under this Act or by cities with a population of 200,000 or greater. Requires review of local standards at least every 10 years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2521 | Relating to veteran-owned small businesses; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans. Tells ODVA to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans. Directs the department to submit a report on the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans no later than November 1, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2354 | Relating to long term care. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Requires the Department of Human Services to study long term services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2701 | Relating to emergency preparedness; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that some health and public safety places have to be prepared for emer- gencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at a 25 percent mortality rate. Defines “25 percent mortality rate.” Directs the Oregon Health Authority and health professional regulatory boards to report to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Directs the department to report an- nually to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency preparedness. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HJR8 | Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to a state property tax. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would put in the constitution a state tax on property to fund public safety. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution requiring the Legislative Assembly to create an administrative authority for funding public safety in this state. Directs the Legislative Assembly to impose a state property tax to fund public safety in this state. Allows the Legislative Assembly to delegate to the administrative authority the authority to implement the tax. Provides that the tax would not be subject to Article XI, section 11, of the Oregon Constitution (Ballot Measure 50) (1997), or Article XI, section 11b, of the Oregon Constitution (Ballot Measure 5) (1990). Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB2335 | Relating to ballot measures addressing property taxes; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 77.8). Establishes the Task Force on Impacts of Ballot Measures 5 and 50. Requires the task force to study the past and future impacts of the ballot measures on small and large taxing jurisdictions and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to taxation no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2730 | Relating to incentives for beginning agricultural operators; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a new program to encourage beginning farmers and ranchers and creates a new fund for the program. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Digest: The Act creates a new program to encourage beginning farmers and ranchers. The Act creates a new fund for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Ag- riculture. Requires the department to establish types of incentives to provide to beginning farmers and ranchers. Establishes the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Incentive Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for purposes of the incentive program. Appropriates moneys for deposit into the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2891 | Relating to personnel records kept for faculty members at institutions of higher education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act limits the number of records that a higher learning school may keep on a teaching employee. The Act allows a teaching employee to respond to the contents of a record. The Act allows a higher learning school to use only allowed files. The Act allows a teaching employee to sue the higher learning school for not following the law about records. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.9). Restricts the number of personnel records concerning faculty members that a community college may maintain. Provides that a faculty member may respond to information in a personnel record. Prohibits a community college or public university from basing an evaluation of a faculty mem- ber on information from personnel records other than authorized personnel records. Permits a fac- ulty member to bring an action for damages or other equitable relief against a public university community college or individuals who participate in an evaluation in violation of the prohibition. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2886 | Relating to small business resource sharing; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would require a study of the costs of operations that are saved by small busi- nesses that share resources. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the cost savings and expense reductions that may result from cooperative resource sharing by small businesses. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2651 | Relating to fees charged in connection with consumer finance loans for purchasing motor vehicles. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Says a person may not charge for a loan used to buy a car, or lease a car, fees that are more than the greater of $150 or one half of one percent of the loan amount or car price. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2). Prohibits a person from charging as the sum of specified fees more than $150 or one half of one percent of the amount of a consumer finance loan made for the purpose of purchasing a motor ve- hicle or one half of one percent of cash sale price of the motor vehicle. Applies the prohibition to retail installment sales and retail leases of motor vehicles. | Dead |
| HB2352 | Relating to long term care. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Requires the Department of Human Services to study long term services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2319 | Relating to veterans' personal information. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes changes to who can get veteran discharge papers from county clerks and says that those records will not be released after 25 years. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Changes who can request veteran discharge papers from county clerks and exempts veterans’ discharge papers from the 25-year statute of limitations for public record disclosure. | Dead |
| HB3059 | Relating to the education of youth in residential facilities; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Directs ODE to study the needs of youth who are in a residential training home and who attend a public school in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.6). Digest: Directs DHS and ODE to jointly study the needs of youth who are in a residential facility and who attend a public school in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education , in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to jointly study the needs of youth who are in a resi- dential facility training home and who attend a public school in this state. Directs the depart- ments Department of Education to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services and education no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2852 | Relating to emergency preparedness public contracting preferences. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells state agencies to try to contract with bidders who agree to help with emergency readiness. The Act tells ODEM to start a program to certify such bidders. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Directs contracting agencies to give preference to a bidder or proposer who is certified by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management as an emergency preparedness partner. Directs the department to establish a program for certification of business organizations as emergency preparedness partners. Provides that organizations shall be certified if a minimum num- ber of individuals in the organization complete the required training and meet other requirements. | Dead |
| HB2860 | Relating to the military. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2522 | Relating to vehicle headlight use. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Digest: The Act requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on or it is foggy outside. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Requires the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are on or there is fog . Punishes of- fense by a maximum fine of $250. Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct an outreach program to educate drivers and the general public about the changes to the law. | Dead |
| HB2388 | Relating to easements; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows land owners to create easements for themselves over their own land. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Allows for the creation of an easement over an owner’s property for the benefit of the owner by declaration of the owner. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2838 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2665 | Relating to the establishment of Central Oregon University; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates COU. Takes effect 91 days after the legislative session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Establishes Central Oregon University as a separate public university, distinct from Oregon State University. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2758 | Relating to tourism districts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to designate tourism districts in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Oregon Tourism Commission to identify, designate and monitor tourism districts in this state. Allows a tourism district to apply to the commission for assistance in obtaining grants from the Oregon Business Development Department for community development and from the Department of Transportation for community transit investments. Allows a tourism district to request assistance from the commission in applying for and obtain- ing temporary waivers of land use and building code requirements and regulations of public entities. Authorizes the commission to identify and designate tourism and recreation activity that is a live performance as a priority tourism and recreation activity that is not subject to the crime of unlawful recording of a live performance. | Dead |
| HB2753 | Relating to emergency preparedness; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the state may issue bonds for the emergency equipment grant pro- gram. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitu- tion for the emergency preparedness equipment grant program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2526 | Relating to income tax credits for individuals who provide volunteer emergency services; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for volunteer firefighters. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Grants income tax credit to firefighters and other registered individuals who provide volunteer services, including services to rural fire protection districts or fire departments. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2553 | Relating to qualification for the Oregon Promise program; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows a person to keep getting an OPP grant for joining any career group before starting school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Allows a person to continue to qualify for the Oregon Promise program if, after being awarded a grant, the person enters into service with any career and technical student organization approved by the Department of Education before attending community college. Applies to all persons who received grants for community college courses enrolled in during the 2024-2025 academic year or later. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2908 | Relating to civics proficiency for a high school diploma. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows a school district or a public charter school to decide how a student shows civics knowledge. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Allows a school district or a public charter school to require a student to demonstrate profi- ciency in civics by a method other than completion of a civics course. | Dead |
| HB2320 | Relating to cancellation of approval by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act permits HECC to cancel its approval of a school to give a degree. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Permits the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to cancel the commission’s approval of a school to confer any academic degree or provide services purporting to lead to a degree in whole or in part. | Dead |
| HB2755 | Relating to funding public safety; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would set up a task force to plan for a state body to fund public safety. The Act will take effect only if the Oregon Constitution is amended to create the state body. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.6). Establishes a task force to develop a plan for the Legislative Assembly to establish a statewide public safety funding authority in Oregon in accordance with House Joint Resolution 8 (2025). Takes effect only if House Joint Resolution 8 (2025) is approved by the people at the next reg- ular general election. Takes effect on the effective date of the constitutional amendment proposed by House Joint Resolution 8 (2025). | Dead |
| HB2767 | Relating to mitigation planning; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to DLCD to make plans related to natural hazards. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land Conservation and Development for natural hazards mitigation planning. Declares the intent of the Legislative Assembly that the appropriated moneys be used to secure federal funding for natural hazards mitigation planning. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2889 | Relating to small employer compliance with the Oregon Safe Employment Act. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes clear the meaning of “provide consultative services” for purposes of the OSEA. The Act tells DCBS to give incentives to small employers who use certain services to get help with following the laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Clarifies the meaning of “provide consultative services” to require the Director of the Depart- ment of Consumer and Business Services to provide incentive to small employers to participate in consultative services, to provide maximum allowable protection from fines and penalties to small employers that participate in consultative services and to promote consultative services to the small business community. | Dead |
| HB2882 | Relating to real estate appraisers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the ACLB to start a program and give grants to appraisers who are li- censed or certified. The new law ends after two years. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Directs the Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to establish a program to award grants to state certified appraisers and state licensed appraisers to whom the board issues a certificate or license on or after January 1, 2026. Directs the board to issue temporary certificates and licenses to engage in real estate appraisal activity. Sunsets on January 1, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2822 | Relating to a report on Canis lupus; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to study certain effects on wolf populations. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to submit a report on the effects on Oregon wolf populations of changes in certain protections for the gray wolf during the last 10 years. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2520 | Relating to tax credits for employment of qualified military veterans; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows a taxpayer to claim, for up to three years, a credit against their income tax if the taxpayer employs a qualified veteran. Requires the taxpayer to pay at least the required wage. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.9). Allows a credit against income taxes for up to three years for employment of qualified military veterans if the wage requirement is met. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2033. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2912 | Relating to accelerated college credit programs; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires a teacher of a course that is part of a dual credit program to take graduate level course work for the course. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Establishes minimum education requirements for high school teachers of dual credit courses. Takes effect July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2458 | Relating to reporting requirements for public universities; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells HECC to study reporting requirements by higher learning schools in this state. Tells HECC to create a plan to reduce the number of reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a study on reporting re- quirements placed on public universities in this state. Specifies that the study must include an in- ventory of all reporting requirements and a plan to reduce any unnecessary or duplicative requirements. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2828 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells colleges to give 12 credits to veterans who have served two or more years on ac- tive duty. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires public post-secondary institutions to grant 12 academic credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty. | Dead |
| HB2650 | Relating to veterans' courts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Directs ODVA to create a grant program to provide funding to counties for veterans’ courts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop and implement a grant program to pro- vide funding to Oregon counties for veterans’ courts. | Dead |
| HB2894 | Relating to the Oregon Military Department; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would direct a portion of lottery revenue for tuition waivers for certain soldiers. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of pro- viding tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2652 | Relating to intercollegiate sports. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires a public college to get the consent of the LA before changing athletic groups. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires a public university to submit any proposed change in affiliation with an athletic asso- ciation, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports to the appropriate legislative committees for review. Prohibits the public university’s a change in affiliation from oc- curring unless the change is first approved by the Legislative Assembly. | Dead |
| HB2432 | Relating to the regulation of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would repeal the law that set a state standard for city and county laws that govern the use of public property by the homeless. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of vio- lations of such laws. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2136 | Relating to fairgrounds; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to improve fairgrounds that are used for evacuations. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HJM8 | Urging Congress to pass legislation to prevent a shutdown of the federal government from lasting more than 50 days. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges Congress to pass a law about budgets. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). 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. | Dead |
| HB2708 | Relating to workforce development; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make new laws for workforce development. The Act would transfer workforce development duties from HECC to BOLI. The Act would make a new workforce develop- ment program and office at BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Transfers duties, functions and powers related to administering the federal Workforce Inno- vation and Opportunity Act and workforce development matters from the Higher Education Coordi- nating Commission to the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Establishes the Office of Workforce Development within the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Establishes the Office of Workforce Development Account. Creates the Oregon Workforce Corps to provide workforce development and employment opportunities. Renames the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development to the Office of Com- munity Colleges. Renames the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development Account to the Office of Community Colleges Account. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2902 | Relating to a tax credit for educator classroom expenses; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new tax credit for unreimbursed costs of educators. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Creates an income tax credit for the unreimbursed expenses of teachers and adjunct instructors. Adjusts the credit amount for inflation. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2662 | Relating to law enforcement agencies. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that some law enforcement agencies have to have at least two officers in patrol cars. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs a municipal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a population of at least 350,000 to staff patrol vehicles with a minimum of two officers. Specifies an exception. | Dead |
| HB2846 | Relating to refinancing options for veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes ODVA create a program to provide loan and credit guarantees for veterans to refinance home mortgages. Creates a fund to pay for amounts due under a guarantee. Bans pay- ments by ODVA other than from the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a program under which the department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for the purpose of refinancing existing home mortgages on veterans’ primary residences. Establishes the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the department. Prohibits the department from paying amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement from any source other than available funds in the Veterans Refinancing and Reintegration Services Fund. Provides that amounts due and payable under an agreement do not constitute a debt, or a lending of credit, of the state. Authorizes financial institutions to exercise rights against the secu- rity if there are insufficient available funds to pay amounts due under a loan or credit guarantee agreement. Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to include in the Governor’s budget request to the Legislative Assembly for each fiscal period amounts sufficient to permit the payment of amounts due on unpaid loan and credit guarantees for that fiscal period. | Dead |
| HB2885 | Relating to emergency volunteers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells state agencies to make an electronic system to manage emergency volun- teers in this state. The Act puts ODEM in charge of maintaining the system. The Act tells ODEM to start a workgroup about volunteers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement the creation of an interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency. Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer and maintain the sys- tem, conduct outreach and training regarding the system, coordinate a workgroup for periodic re- view of the system and coordinate a workgroup to develop recommendations regarding statewide volunteerism. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop policies and procedures to incorporate the system into the activities and duties of the OregonServes Commission. | Dead |
| HB2667 | Relating to servicemembers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes two new crimes about servicemembers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Creates the crime of criminal defamation of a servicemember. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates the crime of unlawful appropriation of the identity of a servicemember. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. | Dead |
| HJM4 | Urging Congress to extend benefits to units deployed under 10 U.S.C. 12304b. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges Congress to change how the U.S. government provides benefits to the armed forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). 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. | Dead |
| HB2761 | Relating to county disaster recovery; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to give grants to counties to hire staff to manage disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to provide grants to counties to create and fill county-level disaster mitigation and recovery man- ager positions. Specifies the duties of a disaster mitigation and recovery manager. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2848 | Relating to nonprofit corporations that receive public funds; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells not for profit companies that get public money to obey open meetings and public records laws. Tells the companies that they must post a copy of the budget they expect to adopt on their websites. Tells the companies that they must agree to and cooperate with audits. Says that the company’s directors, officers and employees must comply with government ethics standards. Takes effect on passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation’s proposed annual budget to the corporation’s public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit. Subjects members of a corporation’s board of directors and officers and employees of a cor- poration to government ethics standards. Applies the provisions of the Act to corporations over a 15-year period, with required compli- ance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the corporation that comes from public funds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2823 | Relating to patents for inventions in public high schools in this state. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells a state agency that it can hire a lawyer to help with getting a patent for any in- vention someone makes while working or being a student at a public high school. Lets the agency share in or say it will not share in the ownership of the patent. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.2). Permits the Oregon Business Development Department to hire an attorney for the purpose of prosecuting a patent for any invention that faculty, staff or students reduce to practice while em- ployed by or enrolled in a public high school in this state. Permits the department to assume, assign, partake in or disclaim ownership of any patent that results from an invention under the terms of a contract or other agreement into which the depart- ment enters with faculty or staff, with students who have legal capacity to enter into contracts or with the legal guardians of students without legal capacity to enter into contracts and in accordance with rules the department adopts and other applicable law. | Dead |
| HB2854 | Relating to building code requirements for school facilities within the seismic hazard region; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells a state agency to make changes to the state building code that say which design features school facilities must have in a seismic zone. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt amend- ments to the state building code that mandate certain design features for new school facilities in a designated seismic hazard region. Specifies the design features. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2696 | Relating to camping sites on public property; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make clear that the laws for the storage of the personal property of the homeless apply when it is removed from a public camping site. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Specifies that the laws governing the storage of the personal property of homeless individuals applies to personal property removed from a public camping site. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2705 | Relating to patents resulting from public funding of post-secondary institutions of education. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the HECC to study how much money the state should get for each patent a college gets after receiving public money. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with public universi- ties and community colleges, to conduct a study to determine the appropriate rate of return the State of Oregon should receive for each patent obtained as a result of public moneys provided to a public university or community college. Requires the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2853 | Relating to urban growth boundaries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act replaces an old industrial siting program with a new program that allows for UGB growth. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses. Sunsets January 2, 2037. Sunsets 2011 program under which the Economic Recovery Review Council designated re- gionally significant industrial areas. | Dead |
| HB2768 | Relating to philanthropic liaisons for emergency preparedness; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to contract with one or more persons to help acquire and use re- sources for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons. Specifies the minimum duties of philanthropic liaisons. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2865 | Relating to emergency management; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to certain state agencies. The Act states that the money may be spent for certain purposes related to fire protection, OrSAP and ODEM. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2704 | Relating to redistricting. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the state to try to find out the last address of persons who are confined in custody and to use that address to create some voting districts in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.8). Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to the adult in custody, and to submit the information to the Secretary of State. Directs the secretary to adjust the population data reported in the federal decennial census to reflect the residence status of adults in custody before incarceration. Requires the Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, to reapportion the state into legislative districts based on the adjusted population data. Requires the use of the adjusted population data to apportion county or municipal boundaries. | Dead |
| HB3166 | Relating to elections. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Requires that all candidates will be on the same primary ballot. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires all candidates for partisan office and nonpartisan office, regardless of political party affiliation or nonaffiliation, to appear on the same unified primary election ballot, with the five candidates receiving the most votes advancing to the general election ballot. Exempts candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. | Dead |
| HB2711 | Relating to emergency benefits for independent contractors; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would pay UI benefits to gig workers when an emergency is declared in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Provides a worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during a state of emergency de- clared by the Governor to unemployed independent contractors on terms similar to the terms under which employees receive regular benefits. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2905 | Relating to the training of police officers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets a law enforcement unit sponsor a reserve officer to train as a police officer. The Act lets the officer pay with cash or G.I. Bill money. The Act tells DPSST to look at the effects of the Act and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.0). Authorizes reserve officers sponsored by a law enforcement unit to pay for training as police with cash and G.I. Bill education benefits. Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to increase training class sizes by up to 25 percent as necessary to train sponsored reserve officers. Requires a reserve officer to remain with the law enforcement unit for at least three years after certification and allows the department to suspend or revoke certification if the reserve officer fails to comply. Requires the department to conduct a study of the impact of the measure on state and local public safety budgets and recruitment and maintenance of public safety and to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public safety. Sunsets on January 2, 2032. | Dead |
| HCR5 | Resolving that the Legislative Assembly should appropriate from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs an amount that is no less than the amount appropriated in the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, as adjusted. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges the state to spend on veterans at least as much as the state spent on veterans during an earlier period of time. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Resolves that the Legislative Assembly should appropriate from the General Fund to the De- partment of Veterans’ Affairs an amount that is no less than the amount appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, as adjusted. | Dead |
| HB2721 | Relating to a public transit incentive surcharge. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would allow a city or county to impose a public transit surcharge on top of any parking fine. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes a city or county to impose a public transit incentive surcharge on the amount of any fine for violation of the city’s or county’s motor vehicle parking code. | Dead |
| HB2866 | Relating to labor organization representation. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes changes to laws about collective bargaining with respect to public em- ployees who are not members of a union. The Act would change how those employees will make payments to the union. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Permits employees who are not union members to voluntarily consent to make in-lieu-of-dues payment to a labor organization for the organization’s representation of the nonmember employees in employment relations with a public employer. Prohibits compulsory payments to labor organiza- tions by nonmember employees. Makes entering into an agreement that requires the nonmember employees of a labor organization to make payments to the labor organization an unfair labor practice. | Dead |
| HB2353 | Relating to behavioral health. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health services for certain people. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 67.7). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2389 | Relating to enrollment limit for public universities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act limits higher learning schools in this state from increasing the number of their students by more than five percent each year. The Act requires each school to refer applications they receive in excess of the limit to specified schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Prohibits public universities in this state from increasing enrollment by more than five percent over the preceding academic year. Requires public universities to refer any application received by the university in excess of the limit on enrollment to the nearest community college and to specified public universities. | Dead |
| HB2713 | Relating to funding for calamity preparation; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act imposes new income taxes and takes revenues that would go the Rainy Day Fund, to help the state plan for disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Imposes a surtax on personal income tax liability. Imposes an Oregon personal alternative min- imum tax. Establishes the Resiliency Requirements Fund. Establishes the Shaky Day Fund. Directs the proceeds of the income tax surtax and the alternative minimum tax to be used for funding resiliency. Modifies the formula for transfer of a percentage of the General Fund ending balance to include a transfer to the Shaky Day Fund, in addition to the transfer to the Rainy Day Fund. First applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and to biennia beginning on or after July 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2862 | Relating to interest-only loans to assist small businesses to increase employment. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would create a loan program to support small businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Program to be administered by the Oregon Business Development Department for the purpose of making interest-only loans to allow businesses with not more than 50 employees to hire new employees. Requires the payment of prin- cipal plus penalty for failure to hire and retain employees for at least two years. Establishes the Local Markets Small Business Capital Loan Fund for the purpose of adminis- tering the loan program. Appropriates moneys to the department for the purpose of administering the loan program and loan fund. | Dead |
| HCR6 | Designating .One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. as the official film of Oregon. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the official film of Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Designates One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) as the official film of Oregon. | Dead |
| HB2700 | Relating to emergency response. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to make a registry of people who can help with emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to create and maintain a registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response. Requires that the registry be accessible to emergency management agencies and emergency program managers. Di- rects the department to establish procedures for communicating with appropriate entities to gather and update registry information. | Dead |
| HB2875 | Relating to maker spaces. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Authorizes school districts to have maker spaces. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Authorizes district school boards to take specified actions to facilitate the creation and use of maker spaces. | Dead |
| HB2868 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says a court has to look at, when the court determines aggravation, if a person did the crime in an emergency when the court sentences the person. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs a court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of a criminal sentence, evidence that the defendant committed the crime during an emergency, an evacuation while an emergency was in effect or within one year after an emergency ceases, provided that the emergency is related to a natural disaster and the defendant took advantage of circumstances related to the emergency, evacuation or recovery from the emergency. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to include in the rules concerning sentencing departure factors the commission of a crime under such circumstances. | Dead |
| HB2850 | Relating to nepotism laws for members of the Legislative Assembly. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires each member of the legislature to file a form with the OGEC. The Act requires that the form contain the name and salary of each of the member’s relatives or members of the household who serve on the member’s personal staff. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires a member of the Legislative Assembly who has a relative or a member of the household who receives a salary for serving on the member’s personal legislative staff to file a statement with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission naming each relative or member of the household and stating the amount of the salary each relative or member of the household receives for serving on the member’s personal legislative staff. | Dead |
| HB2979 | Relating to state financial administration; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give to groups to help produce and distribute food. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Ser- vices for distribution to various entities for food production and distribution. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HJM9 | Urging the President of the United States to follow certain principles regarding foreign policy and defense doctrines. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Urges the U.S. President to take positions and make appointments with certain things in mind. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). 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. | Dead |
| HB2459 | Relating to compensation of state employees. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that some state agencies may not pay a worker more than 10 times as much as the lowest paid worker in the agency. The Act lets an agency ask for an exemption. The Act makes some agencies report to the LFO. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.5). Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2028, the annual salary or wages paid to an officer or employee of certain state agencies may not exceed 10 times the lowest annual salary or wages paid to a full-time officer or employee of the agency. Allows an agency to request an exemption. Requires certain agencies, including agencies not subject to the limit on salary and wages, to report to the Legislative Fiscal Officer. | Dead |
| HB2855 | Relating to public exchange stations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the DSP to create a public exchange area. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of State Police to establish public exchange locations with certain re- quirements. | Dead |
| HB2773 | Relating to fishing; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for fishing in certain areas. The Act ends the program on January 2, 2033. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for fishing in certain areas. The Act ends the program on January 2, 2028. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to award grants for recreational fishing facilities within an urban growth boundary. Authorizes the use of lottery bond net proceeds to fund the grants. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2028 2033 . Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2707 | Relating to testing and inspecting fire safety systems in public buildings; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes new rules about fire safety testing in public buildings. Sets penalties. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the owner of a public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in the public building. Specifies qualifications for inspectors. Requires an inspector to issue a certificate of compliance if the public building complies with the applicable standards or to issue a deficiency report if the public building does not comply. Specifies a time period within which the public building owner must return the public building to compliance. Punishes violation of the Act with a civil penalty equivalent to five cents for each square foot of occupied space in the public building. Authorizes additional civil penalties for a continuing failure to comply. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2519 | Relating to utilities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells ODEM to give grants to consumer-owned utilities to build projects in response to natural disasters. Creates a commission and fund for the grant program. Allows for the use of moneys from lottery bonds. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Commission in the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes the Oregon Public Utility Homeland Security Fund. Establishes a grant program for the purpose of providing financial assistance to consumer-owned utilities for developing projects associated with mitigating damage resulting from natural disasters or responding to or recovering from natural disasters. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds to finance projects associated with mitigating damage resulting from natural disasters or responding to or recovering from natural disasters. | Dead |
| HB2656 | Relating to net metering. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes changes to laws involving solar power systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits the Public Utility Commission, municipal electric utilities, electric cooperatives and people’s utility districts from setting a maximum amount of cumulative generating capacity for solar net metering systems that is allowed to be interconnected. | Dead |
| HB2914 | Relating to pipeline security; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act creates a task force to study how to make pipelines and associated storage units secure. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Establishes the Task Force on Secure Pipelines and Associated Storage Units and Terminals. Directs the task force to study matters related to safe transportation, storage and transference of petroleum, natural gas and other flammable substances through pipelines, in associated storage units and at associated terminals. Directs the task force to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency preparedness no later than December 15, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2719 | Relating to methods of paying for post-secondary education; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a program to provide money for higher learning students. The Act re- quires students to repay the program for receiving money. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the Office of Student Access and Completion to administer the program. Requires the State Workforce and Talent Development Board to monitor the program every two years and make recommendations to the Legislative As- sembly on whether modifications are necessary to enhance the state’s workforce. Establishes that the program becomes operative on January 1, 2045. Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program Implementation Fund. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, on the effective date of the Act, to begin the process of developing the policy and rules necessary to implement the Guaranteed Op- portunity Program. Requires the commission to submit a report regarding the progress on the de- velopment of policy and rules to committees related to public finance and higher education during the 2026 and 2027 regular sessions of the Legislative Assembly. Establishes the Task Force on Implementing the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the task force to determine the amount of moneys the program will need to raise through bonding, de- termine which current grant and scholarship programs should be repealed on the operative date of the Guaranteed Opportunity Program and analyze the methods for preventing bad faith participation of participants in the program. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2772 | Relating to the emergency alert system; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act gives money to counties and OPB for the emergency alert system. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Department for distribution to counties for the purpose of acquiring analog encoders for transmission of information to broadcasters in case of an emergency. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the depart- ment for distribution to Oregon Public Broadcasting for the purpose of upgrading, repairing or re- placing elements of its signal distribution system. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2661 | Relating to petroleum contamination; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act creates a task force on stopping petroleum contamination and tells the task force to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Establishes the Task Force on Containment of Petroleum Contamination. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation on or before December 15, 2026. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2887 | Relating to carbon sequestration; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a specific carbon sink as an area. The Act creates a task force related to the area. The Act sunsets the task force. The Act creates an advisory board related to the area. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the State Forestry Department to establish the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as a geographical area and take certain actions regarding the area on or before January 1, 2037. Establishes the Task Force on the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Establishes the Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink Advisory Board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2834 | Relating to the military. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes the OMD do a study on the military and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Directs the Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2549 | Relating to rural health care tax credits; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets pharmacists get an income tax credit if they work in rural areas. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities. Directs the Office of Rural Health to establish criteria for certifying pharmacists as eligible for the credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2703 | Relating to an income tax surtax to fund emergency preparedness; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a new personal income tax to fund resiliency. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Imposes a surtax on income tax liability. Transfers the proceeds of the income tax surtax to the Resiliency Grant Fund. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2864 | Relating to emergency management. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2849 | Relating to law enforcement. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells DPSST to look at issues facing law enforcement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2906 | Relating to housing for veterans; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a task force on housing strategies for veterans. Makes the task force do a study on housing strategies for veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Task Force on Innovative Housing Strategies for Veterans. Directs the task force to study innovative housing strategies for veterans and submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing and veterans’ affairs not later than Sep- tember 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2716 | Relating to vehicle dealers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODOT to tell car dealers if ODOT finds missing or incomplete papers or fees when the dealer tries to register or title a car. ODOT must also give the dealer a chance to fix the problem. The Act also tells ODOT to study how long it takes to process the papers and fees from car dealers. By September 15, 2027, the department must share the study results and ideas for im- provement with the ODAC. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Directs the Department of Transportation to notify vehicle dealers when the department dis- covers documentation, information or fees the vehicle dealer submitted to register or title a vehicle are missing, incomplete or miscalculated. Directs the department to take certain actions to allow a vehicle dealer to rectify the missing documentation, information or fees. Directs the department to undertake a study to assess delays in processing documentation and fees submitted by vehicle dealers. Provides that the department report the results of the study and recommendations to the Oregon Dealer Advisory Committee no later than September 15, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2873 | Relating to post-secondary student financial aid; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the HECC to create an Oregon work study pilot program. Ends the program on January 2, 2029. Tells the HECC to study college students’ access to basic needs. Tells the HECC to submit a report on the findings of the study. Declares an emergency and becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish an Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students. Sunsets the program on January 2, 2029. Directs the commission to conduct a study on post-secondary students’ access to basic necessi- ties and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2831 | Relating to police oversight boards. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and make a report to DPSST. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. | Dead |
| HB3237 | Relating to public safety answering points. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODEM to run a grant program to support PSAP consolidation and up- grades. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to administer a grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points. Sunsets January 2, 2045. | Dead |
| HB2910 | Relating to energy-related improvements; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would change some laws related to energy and property taxes. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 60.7). Authorizes local governments to adopt additional criteria to encourage energy efficiency and energy generation on property granted certain exemptions from ad valorem property taxation. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2825 | Relating to preferences for veterans in public employment selection processes. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act updates the laws about how public employers should give priority to veterans when hiring for jobs. If they choose not to hire a veteran, they have to write down their reasons in certain situations. If a veteran or disabled veteran thinks they were treated unfairly, they must first try to solve the problem with BOLI before they can take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position. Requires evidence of eligi- bility and disability to be provided at the time of application. Sets forth processes for granting one or more preferences. Allows a public employer to exercise discretion not to appoint a qualified veteran or disabled veteran to a civil service position based solely on the veteran’s or disabled veteran’s merits or qualification in the final stage of the selection process. Requires a public employer to provide writ- ten reasons for not appointing a veteran or disabled veteran to a position under certain circum- stances. Requires an aggrieved veteran or disabled veteran to exhaust nonjudicial remedies with the Bureau of Labor and Industries before filing a civil action for an unlawful employment practice. | Dead |
| HB2898 | Relating to a public safety task force; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes a task force about sources of money that can be used for public safety and security and tells the task force to make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Establishes the Oregon All Funds Crisis and Disaster Resourcing Task Force. Directs the task force to review sources of public and private moneys used to support public safety and security in this state, assess the value of existing taxes, fees and other moneys and evaluate outcomes resulting from these funding sources. Directs the task force to make recommendations to the Legislative Assembly for design and implementation of the strategic resources structure necessary to respond to future public safety and security needs. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2659 | Relating to the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board. This board will take over the rules for car dealers and people who take apart cars from ODOT. The changes will begin January 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). Establishes the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board. Transfers the duties, functions and powers of the Department of Transportation related to the regulation of vehicle dealers and dismantlers to the Oregon Vehicle Industry Board. Becomes oper- ative on January 1, 2026. Repeals the Oregon Dealer Advisory Committee. Becomes operative on January 1, 2028. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2881 | Relating to appointments to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that the Governor has to interview at least one person who is part of a minority group when naming a person to the Port of Portland board. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Governor to interview at least one candidate from an underserved racial, ethnic or minority population when making an appointment to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Portland. | Dead |
| HB2874 | Relating to preferences for veterans in public employment selection processes. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act updates the laws about how public employers should give priority to veterans when hiring for jobs. It limits the preference to those who apply within ten years of leaving the U.S. Armed Forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Modifies law regarding the requirement that a public employer grant preference to a veteran or disabled veteran in the selection process for a civil service position. Limits eligibility for prefer- ence to a veteran who applies for a position within 10 years of discharge or release from service in the Armed Forces of the United States. Requires evidence of eligibility and disability to be provided at the time of application. Sets forth processes for granting one or more preferences. Allows a public employer to exercise discretion to not appoint a qualified veteran or disabled veteran to a civil service position based solely on the veteran’s or disabled veteran’s merits or qualification in the final stage of the selection process. Requires a public employer to provide writ- ten reasons for not appointing a veteran or disabled veteran to a position under certain circum- stances. Requires an aggrieved veteran or disabled veteran to exhaust nonjudicial remedies with the Bureau of Labor and Industries before filing a civil action for an unlawful employment practice. | Dead |
| HB2829 | Relating to veterans. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on veterans and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding im- provements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB2189 | Relating to traffic violations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act says that if a person speeds or runs a red light and is caught by a photo radar or a photo red light camera, the person must get a warning and not a ticket. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.5). Provides that a person shall receive a written warning for a first offense of speeding or running a red light if the conduct was captured by photo radar or photo red light cameras. | Dead |
| HB2757 | Relating to workloads in the Department of Human Services. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study the workloads of APD case managers. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Department of Human Services to study the workloads of case managers in the aging and disability services division of the department. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3213 | Relating to public records disclosure by public university foundations; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act applies public records laws to higher learning bodies. The Act tells higher learning bodies to post certain annual reports. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires that public university foundations are subject to the public records laws of this state. Specifies the records that are exempt from disclosure. Specifies the records that are not exempt from disclosure. Requires public university foundations to release an annual report that is publicly available on the website maintained by the public university foundation. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2666 | Relating to pretrial detainees; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act requires each county to have a place to treat certain people who are in custody waiting for trial. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellec- tual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2384 | Relating to fees on the transportation of oil by rail. | AN ACT Relating to fees on the transportation of oil by rail; amending sections 13b and 13d, chapter 581, Oregon Laws 2019. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2712 | Relating to the Judicial Department; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to the Judicial Department; creating new provisions; amending ORS 292.406, 292.411, 292.416 and 292.426; and declaring an emergency. | Passed |
| HB2658 | Relating to conditions of development. | AN ACT Relating to conditions of development. | Passed |
| HB3932 | Relating to protecting beavers. | AN ACT Relating to protecting beavers. Whereas beavers play an important role in improving water quality and temporary water stor- age, in helping remove pollutants and sediments and in regulating water temperature to ensure continuity of municipal water supplies and stream flows during drought for agricultural use and in improving the quality, connectivity and abundance of fish and wildlife habitat; and Whereas beavers play a significant role in decreasing the risks of wildfire; and Whereas the beaver is a keystone species that serves as nature’s engineer and beavers’ habitat can provide refugia, stimulate the recovery of other species and foster resilience; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3582 | Relating to statutes of limitation; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to statutes of limitation; creating new provisions; amending ORS 12.117 and 12.118; and declaring an emergency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB1137 | Relating to autologous breast reconstruction. | AN ACT Relating to autologous breast reconstruction; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 743B.001. | Passed |
| HB2306 | Relating to courts. | AN ACT Relating to courts; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 51.020 and 106.120. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2321 | Relating to ballot measures addressing property taxes; and prescribing an effective date. | AN ACT Relating to ballot measures addressing property taxes; and prescribing an effective date. | Passed |
| HB3167 | Relating to regulating sales of admission tickets to entertainment events. | AN ACT Relating to regulating sales of admission tickets to entertainment events; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 646A.115. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2649 | Relating to tuition and fees for public universities; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to tuition and fees for public universities; and declaring an emergency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB584 | Relating to Oregon Truffle Month; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to Oregon Truffle Month; and declaring an emergency. Whereas Oregon is recognized as one of the top five truffle regions in the world, and Oregon truffles are among the world’s preeminent culinary delicacies; and Whereas truffles are a form of mycorrhizal fungus that develops underground in symbiotic as- sociation with the roots of trees, and truffles are the “fruit” of these fungi; and Whereas Oregon is home to four native truffle species that are recognized for their culinary value: the Oregon Winter White Truffle (Tuber oregonense), the Oregon Spring White Truffle (Tuber gibbosum), the Oregon Black Truffle (Leucangium cascadiense) and the Oregon Brown Truffle (Kalapuya brunnea); and Whereas Oregon truffles provide an economic incentive to keep forests standing, delivering ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, wildlife migration corridors and many other benefits to the natural and aesthetic environment, while ensuring sustainable annual income for landowners; and Whereas February marks the peak of Oregon truffle season, drawing thousands of people from around the country and the world, who visit Oregon’s rural areas where truffles are found, benefit- ing local communities; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB450 | Relating to Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day; and declaring an emergency. Whereas Ruby Nell Bridges was born to Abon and Lucille Bridges on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi; and Whereas Ruby was born in the immediate wake of Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled on May 17, 1954, that racial segregation in school was unconstitutional; and Whereas the southern states were vehemently opposed to integration, and when Ruby’s family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1959, she attended a segregated kindergarten; and Whereas in 1960, Ruby was one of six Black children in Louisiana to pass a test to determine whether they could attend the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School, and ulti- mately she was the only Black child who chose to attend the school that year; and Whereas Ruby made history on November 14, 1960, when she walked to William Frantz Ele- mentary School flanked by four deputy U.S. marshals, the first Black child in the south to attend a previously all-white school; and Whereas Ruby’s brave walk that day was immortalized by Norman Rockwell in his iconic 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With; and Whereas though Ruby’s life as a student continued to be fraught with blatant racism and threats of violence, she never missed a single day of school; and Whereas Ruby Bridges has been a tireless advocate for change throughout her life, and through the Ruby Bridges Foundation, speaking engagements and her series of children’s books, she contin- ues to strive for an end to racism; and Whereas the United States education system has progressed immensely from that November day 65 years ago, but racism still plagues the school experience for students in Oregon and throughout the United States; and Whereas Salem-Keizer Safe Routes to School honors the impact Ruby Bridges has had on the United States education system through its participation in Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, a nationwide day of dialogue for students, families, school staff and community members to confront racism and bullying head on; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB1005 | Relating to swiping driver licenses. | AN ACT Relating to swiping driver licenses; amending ORS 807.750. | Passed |
| SCR28 | In memoriam: Charles Benjamin "Chuck" Mawhinney. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the life and service of Chuck Mawhinney. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). In memoriam: Charles Benjamin “Chuck” Mawhinney, 1949-2024. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3929 | Relating to the wellness of public safety workers. | AN ACT Relating to the wellness of public safety workers; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 181A.835. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR37 | Recognizing Andy Bromeland for his service and commitment to the people of the State of Oregon. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Pays respect to the life and memory of Andy Bromeland. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Recognizes Andy Bromeland (1948-2024) for his service and commitment to the people of the State of Oregon. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR36 | In memoriam: Christine Chin Ryan. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the life and memory of Christine Chin Ryan. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). In memoriam: Christine Chin Ryan. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR34 | Designating Vietnamese American Remembrance Day. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Creates a new state day to remember the Vietnam War and to honor those affected by it. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Designates April 30, 2025, as Vietnamese American Remembrance Day. Honors the contributions of Vietnam War veterans from the United States and the Republic of Vietnam, Vietnamese refugees and the Vietnamese American community. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR8 | Recognizing and honoring Vicki and Jerry Berger for their leadership and service to the people of Oregon. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors Vicki and Jerry Berger for their careers and service. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Recognizes and honors Vicki and Jerry Berger for their leadership and service to the people of Oregon. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2540 | Relating to medical out-of-pocket costs. | AN ACT Relating to medical out-of-pocket costs. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2706 | Relating to businesses regulated by the Department of Transportation. | AN ACT Relating to businesses regulated by the Department of Transportation; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 822.125 and 822.700. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2269 | Relating to the Oregon State Capitol Foundation; and prescribing an effective date. | AN ACT Relating to the Oregon State Capitol Foundation; creating new provisions; amending ORS 173.500 and 173.720; repealing ORS 173.505 and 173.515; and prescribing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR30 | Designates April 10, 2025, as Purple Up! Day for Month of the Military Child. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Names a day in April 2025 Purple Up! Day for Month of the Military Child in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Designates April 10, 2025, as Purple Up! Day for Month of the Military Child. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR31 | Commending the Legislative Commission on Indian Services on its 50th anniversary. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors LCIS for 50 years of service to the State of Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Commends the Legislative Commission on Indian Services on its 50th anniversary. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2660 | Relating to trip permits. | AN ACT Relating to trip permits; amending ORS 803.600, 803.601, 803.602 and 803.645. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB710 | Relating to judicial training. | AN ACT Relating to judicial training; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 1.002 and 8.125. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR25 | Recognizing and honoring Ruth McEwen for her outstanding service to the people of the State of Oregon. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the life and memory of Ruth McEwen. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Recognizes and honors Ruth McEwen for her outstanding service to the people of the State of Oregon. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR18 | Recognizing and honoring John McArdle for his leadership and service to the City of Independence and the State of Oregon. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the career of John McArdle. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8). Recognizes and honors John McArdle for his leadership and service to the City of Independence and the State of Oregon. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2581 | Relating to emergency preparedness. | AN ACT Relating to emergency preparedness; amending ORS 401.913. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR23 | Recognizing and honoring Oregon civilians who served the United States on Wake Island during World War II. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors certain Oregonians who were not members of the armed forces for their World War II service. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Recognizes and honors Oregon civilians who served the United States on Wake Island during World War II. Commends individuals who have increased public awareness of the service and sacrifice of these civilians. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR10 | Recognizing and honoring former Oregon State Representative Roger Martin for his service to this state. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Pays respect to Roger Martin for his service to this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Recognizes and honors former Oregon State Representative Roger Martin (1935-2023) for his service to this state. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR9 | In memoriam: Secretary of State and former state Representative Dennis Michael Richardson. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Pays respect to the life and memory of Dennis Richardson. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). In memoriam: Secretary of State and former state Representative Dennis Michael Richardson, 1949-2019. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB2342 | Relating to fees concerning wildlife; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2803 | Relating to fees concerning water; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Motion to Reconsider | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SCR1 | Adjourning sine die the 2025 regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly. | House Read and Adopted | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5506 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB824 | Relating to health insurance. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB3040 | Relating to early literacy. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5505 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB5006 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB842 | Relating to health care facilities; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5530 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB5531 | Relating to lottery bonds; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB960 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB3525 | Relating to exempt wells that supply ground water for domestic purposes. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB3544 | Relating to water. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB3544 | Relating to water. | Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng bill, including amendments to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.) | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB1047 | Relating to access to resources for development in Curry County; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB3824 | Relating to physical therapy; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB1154 | Relating to ground water. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB1173 | Relating to product liability civil actions; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2005 | Relating to behavioral health; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB3984 | Relating to wildfires; declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SCR34 | Establishing limitations and deadlines for legislative measures for the 2026 regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly, and providing certain labor negotiation procedures. | House Special Order | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB3145 | Relating to factory-produced housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB688 | Relating to performance-based regulation of electric utilities. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2138 | Relating to land use; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB5543 | Relating to the financial administration of the Water Resources Department; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB5515 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Education; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB296 | Relating to hospital discharge challenges; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB95 | Relating to judicial positions; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB230 | Relating to the Veterans Dental Program; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB494 | Relating to employment of forestry workers; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB690 | Relating to perinatal public health; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB75 | Relating to wildfire hazard requirements for nonurban dwellings. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB51 | Relating to housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB807 | Relating to the Oregon National Guard; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB3069 | Relating to public safety; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB136 | Relating to developmental disabilities services providers. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB598 | Relating to step therapy for nonopioids. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2316 | Relating to lands designated for housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB3031 | Relating to housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2688 | Relating to the application of a prevailing rate of wage to off-site custom work for use in public works; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2614 | Relating to the Oregon Public Defense Commission; and declaring an emergency. | House Repassed | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB844 | Relating to public health. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB844 | Relating to public health. | House Committee Do pass with amendments to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.) | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2411 | Relating to industrial development. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB504 | Relating to bioengineering for the protection of coastal resources. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB692 | Relating to perinatal services. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2087 | Relating to revenue; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB476 | Relating to professional workforce; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB476 | Relating to professional workforce; and declaring an emergency. | House Committee Do pass with amendments to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.) | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB163 | Relating to parentage; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB48 | Relating to housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB537 | Relating to violence in health care settings. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB684 | Relating to housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB739 | Relating to long term care oversight. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB875 | Relating to the rights of children in care; and declaring an emergency. | House Motion to Table | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB961 | Relating to a sister state committee for Oregon and Ireland. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB976 | Relating to providing animal health care; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB1051 | Relating to the State Forester; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB3865 | Relating to telephone solicitations. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB1125 | Relating to unmanned aircraft systems. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB1168 | Relating to per-visit compensation for home health care entities. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB3942 | Relating to an expedited licensure process for health care facilities. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2005 | Relating to behavioral health; and declaring an emergency. | Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng bill to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.) | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HCR42 | Expressing the intent of the Legislative Assembly to reduce or phase out taxes enacted in House Bill 2025 (2025). | House Read and Adopted | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB243 | Relating to firearms; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2322 | Relating to economic development; declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB5015 | Relating to the financial administration of the Bureau of Labor and Industries; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB3199 | Relating to school attendance; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2548 | Relating to labor standards for agricultural workers; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Absent |
| HB2614 | Relating to the Oregon Public Defense Commission; and declaring an emergency. | House Committee Recommending the House concur in Senate amendments dated 05/28 and bill be further amended and repassed | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB3794 | Relating to municipal solid waste; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2005 | Relating to behavioral health; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB3145 | Relating to factory-produced housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5538 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of the State Fire Marshal; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| HB2658 | Relating to conditions of development. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB822 | Relating to provider networks. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB83 | Relating to wildfire; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB863 | Relating to cost recovery for fire protection. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| HB2803 | Relating to fees concerning water; and declaring an emergency. | Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill, including amendments to resolve conflicts. (Printed B-Eng.) | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5527 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| HB5016 | Relating to the financial administration of legislative branch agencies; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB236 | Relating to controlled substances; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB5537 | Relating to the financial administration of the Secretary of State; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB5534 | Relating to the financial administration of the Public Employees Retirement System; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB837 | Relating to a volunteer registry. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB5528 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Land Conservation and Development; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB5506 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB3064 | Relating to health care coverage beginning at perimenopause. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB3148 | Relating to the availability of residential telecommunication services for low-income customers; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB2316 | Relating to lands designated for housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Committee Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng bill. (Printed C-Eng.) | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| HB3031 | Relating to housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5545 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB5542 | Relating to the financial administration of the State Treasurer; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB836 | Relating to fees imposed by the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB829 | Relating to affordable housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Absent |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | Oregon House District 20 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/01/2015 |