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Legislator > Lucetta Elmer
State Representative
Lucetta Elmer
(R) - Oregon
Oregon House District 24
In Office - Started: 01/09/2023
contact info
Capitol office
900 Court St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: 503-986-1424
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB3474 | Relating to the Secretary of State conducting a study of changes to the U.S. Postal Service. | AN ACT Relating to the Secretary of State conducting a study of changes to the U.S. Postal Service. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2685 | Relating to cytomegalovirus; and prescribing an effective date. | AN ACT Relating to cytomegalovirus; creating new provisions; amending ORS 433.298 and 433.321; and pre- scribing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3064 | Relating to health care coverage beginning at perimenopause. | AN ACT Relating to health care coverage beginning at perimenopause; creating new provisions; and amend- ing ORS 243.144 and 243.877. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3643 | Relating to Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day; and declaring an emergency. Whereas the topic of youth suicide does not receive the elevation and attention it deserves; and Whereas youth suicide has impacted far too many communities and families throughout our beautiful state; and Whereas the warning signs of youth suicide often go unnoticed or unrecognized; and Whereas shame, stigma and a lack of knowledge are barriers to seeking professional mental health support; and Whereas 20 percent of all high school students have reported having serious thoughts about suicide; and Whereas in Oregon, 38 percent of high school juniors reported feeling so sad or hopeless they stopped normal activities; and Whereas 109 Oregon youths died by suicide in 2022; and Whereas in 2022, Oregon had the 12th highest youth suicide rate in the nation; and Whereas according to Mental Health America, Oregon ranks last in the nation in balancing the prevalence of youth mental illness with access to care; and Whereas suicide remains the second leading cause of death in the nation among people aged 5 to 24; and Whereas Oregon must remain dedicated to ending the prevalence of youth suicide; and Whereas the young lives we have lost to suicide live on in our hearts and memories; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB3102 | Relating to damages incurred as a result of wildfire. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells an agency to study certain impacts from wildfire damages. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | 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 |
| 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 |
| HB2901 | Relating to newborn safety devices. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act allows a parent to leave a newborn in a safety device if the device meets cer- tain standards. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device. Allows an authorized facility to install a newborn safety device. Prescribes standards for newborn safety devices. | 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 |
| HB3872 | Relating to conduct of elections; 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: Makes voting in person the normal method for voting. Requires voters to show picture ID when voting or requesting a ballot. Refers the Act to the people at the next general election. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election. Allows an elector to request a ballot that may be voted by mail if the elector is unable to vote in person on the date of the election. Retains vote by mail as the primary method for con- ducting elections for military and overseas electors and for electors who have a mailing address outside of Oregon. Requires electors to present valid government-issued identification when appearing in-person to vote or when requesting a ballot be sent by mail. Requires all ballots to be returned by the date of an election. Removes a requirement that the state pay postage for ballots returned by mail. Refers the Act to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. | Dead |
| HB3979 | Relating to labor disputes involving public employees. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make changes to PECBA. The Act would prohibit public employees from engaging in strikes to resolve labor disputes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Prohibits strikes by public employees. Requires that labor issues in dispute be submitted to final and binding arbitration. | 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 |
| HB2020 | Relating to qualified nonprofit agencies for individuals with disabilities. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Says that a company that gives work to people with disabilities must use people with disabilities for at least 50 percent of the work hours that go into making goods or doing services. Says what must happen if a public agency ends a contract for goods or services and a new company takes over. Says that the new contract must have a health plan as good as or better than the health plan in the old contract. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). Digest: Says that a company that gives work to people with disabilities must use people with dis- abilities for at least 50 percent of the work hours that go into making goods or doing services. Says what must happen if a public agency ends a contract for goods or services and a new company takes over. Says that the new contract must have a health plan as good as or better than the health plan in the old contract. Says the new contract can do this by joining a labor union’s health plan or giving benefits as good as those in the Oregon Health Plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Requires that qualified nonprofit agencies for individuals with disabilities employ individuals with disabilities for not less than 50 percent of the work hours of direct labor required for manu- facturing or providing products or services. Requires that a service provider that enters into a contract with a public agency to provide goods or services after the public agency terminated or declined to renew a previous contract with a different service provider must reimburse individuals with disabilities who were employed under the previous contract for amounts the individuals with disabilities paid for continua- tion coverage and must in the new contract provide health benefits that are as favorable as, or more favorable than, the health benefits available under the previous contract. Permits the successor service provider to provide health benefits through enrollment in a health plan that a labor organiza- tion maintains or to provide health benefits that are as favorable as, or more favorable than, the ben- efits available under the Oregon Health Plan. Requires the new contract to provide the health benefits at the first opportunity in which employee enrollment in the new employer’s benefit plan becomes available, but not later than one year after the effective date of the new con- tract. Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to confirm that a public agency or qualified nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities has included the pro- visions required in the Act in any new contract with a successor service provider. Permits the department to require amendment of the new contract to incorporate the required pro- visions and to impose a civil penalty of not more than $500 for each day in which the parties to the new contract fail to incorporate the required provisions. | Dead |
| HB2365 | Relating to rural medical provider tax credits; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets more health care providers get the rural provider income tax credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Adds mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians, pharmacists, medical laboratory sci- entists and medical laboratory technicians to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit al- lowed to rural medical care providers. Removes the requirement of hospital consulting privileges applicable to an optometrist claiming the credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3978 | Relating to animals; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act concerns lab research on dogs, cats and primates that are not human. The Act creates a task force to stop research on primates that are not human. The Act takes effect when it is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 91.4). Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories. Prohibits a person from conducting research or testing on nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Establishes the Task Force on Planning the Elimination of Research on Nonhuman Primates. Directs the task force to draft a plan for eliminating the breeding of, and research on, nonhuman primates at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Exempts the task force from public meetings law requirements. Sunsets the task force in 2041. | Dead |
| HB3809 | Relating to individual development accounts; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to HCSD for the IDA program. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB3552 | Relating to regional career centers. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Allows ESDs to set up regional career centers for regional CTE needs. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 60.7). Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education. Prescribes the purposes of the centers and the requirements of funding plans for the centers . Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education from the General Fund for the purpose of providing grants to education service districts for supporting regional career centers. | Dead |
| HB2400 | Relating to family dwelling units; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows a rural homeowner to build a house for a relative. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3851 | Relating to termination of residential tenancies; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This bill amends the notices to end a tenancy needed from landlords selling their homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Allows a residential landlord to give 59 days’ notice after accepting an offer from a buyer who intends to occupy the premises, to terminate a tenancy. Requires the landlord to first give tenants at least 31 days’ notice before listing the property for sale. Replaces the current 90 days’ notice requirement for termination. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3682 | Relating to the state budget. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells LPRO to do a study on changing the timeline for passing the state budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study changes necessary to adopt a policy of passing budget bills before passing other bills. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to ways and means not later than June 1, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3834 | Relating to compensation for damage caused by wildlife; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act is about insuring against damage or loss caused by wildlife. The Act tells an agency to create a program for covering losses by private insurers that sell policies to protect against the damage or loss. The Act creates a new fund for the program. The Act gives money to put in the fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.4). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife. Establishes the Wildlife Damage Reinsurance Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund, for the department to use for reinsuring insurers that issue the policies. Appropriates moneys to the department for deposit in the Wildlife Damage Reinsurance Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2425 | Relating to ensuring that forced labor is not used for electric products that public bodies procure; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Sets up a task force to look at who is supplying the goods and services that public bodies in this state buy and to make sure that the products don’t involve forced labor or child labor. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8). Digest: Tells a public body that buys electric cars or solar panels that it needs proof from the vendor that no forced labor was used in producing the car or panel. Specifies penalties for lying about the proof. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8). Requires public bodies that procure electric vehicles and solar photovoltaic energy systems to re- ceive before entering a contract for the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system a certifica- tion from the manufacturer, distributor, vendor or supplier that the production, assembly, transportation or sale of the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system did not use or involve forced labor or oppressive child labor. Requires probative evidence to accompany the certification. Provides that a person that supplies a certification that is false, materially misleading, illegitimate, untruthful, forged or substantially inaccurate is liable for a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 or half of the price the public body paid for the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system. Sub- jects the public body to similar penalties for knowingly or intentionally accepting a certification that the public body knows is false, materially misleading, illegitimate, untruthful, forged or substantially inaccurate. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor. Requires the task force to devise methods for verifying the identities of manufacturers, dis- tributors, vendors or suppliers of products that public bodies procure in this state and en- suring that the public bodies do not procure products for which production, assembly, transportation or sale used or involved forced labor or oppressive child labor. Specifies methods by which the task force may carry out the task force’s purpose. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | 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 |
| HB2234 | Relating to an income tax subtraction for overtime pay received; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes overtime pay not subject to personal income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year. 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 |
| HB2301 | Relating to estate tax; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act sets the estate tax exclusion amount at $7 million and imposes the tax at a flat rate of seven percent. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million. Imposes tax at a flat rate of seven percent. Applies to estates of decedents who die on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2535 | Relating to theft. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes theft crimes to address porch pirates and retail theft. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 81.8). Creates a new way of committing the crime of theft in the second degree when the theft occurs from a dwelling or within the curtilage of a residence. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates two new ways of committing the crime of theft in the first degree when the theft occurs from a dwelling or within the curtilage of a residence. Punishes by a maximum of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to rank theft in the first degree at specified crime category levels. Creates a new way of committing the crime of aggravated theft in the first degree when the theft occurs from a dwelling or within the curtilage of a residence. Punishes by a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Modifies and creates two new ways of committing the crime of organized retail theft. Increases the penalties for organized retail theft if the person possesses a firearm during the commission of the offense or has two or more prior convictions. Punishes by a maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment, $375,000 fine, or both. Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to rank organized retail theft at specified crime category levels. | Dead |
| HB2021 | Relating to certificates of need. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes changes to the certificate of need process. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Modifies the certificate of need process to allow only applicants to challenge proposed decisions of the Oregon Health Authority. | Dead |
| HB3241 | Relating to events on lands zoned for exclusive farm use. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows some events on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events. | Dead |
| HB3433 | Relating to beverage containers for wine; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill and makes other changes to the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill, operative July 1, 2026. Modifies provisions of the Bottle Bill applicable to wine containers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| SB545 | 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 |
| HB2959 | Relating to infertility; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes some health insurance cover some fertility treatments. The Act tells OHA and DCBS to study access to reproductive treatments and report back to the committee on health. The Act makes it an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers. Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study access to fertility and reproductive endocrinology services and report findings to the in- terim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | 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 |
| HB2039 | Relating to exempt amount under corporate activity tax; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Raises the exemption and filing thresholds for the CAT tax. Starts with the tax year 2026. Becomes law 91 days from sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3490 | Relating to chiropractic physicians. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would lift certain limits on the practice of chiropractors in workers’ comp claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Removes the limits on the duration of medical services, the number of visits and the areas of practice for chiropractic physicians serving as attending physicians in workers’ compensation claims. | Dead |
| HB3467 | Relating to ballots; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act provides that a person may not return someone else’s ballot. The Act has ex- ceptions. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning the ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2018 | Relating to financial administration; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act expands Madras’ ability to use an OBDD grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Amends the allowable uses of moneys appropriated to the Oregon Business Development De- partment for distribution to the City of Madras. 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 |
| HB3468 | Relating to updating voter registration information; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act keeps county clerks from updating voter data by using data that ODOT and OHA send. The Act lets voters use voter registration cards to make updates to their data. The Act becomes law 91 days after the legislature is done. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.7). Prohibits a county clerk from using certain information provided by the Department of Trans- portation or the Oregon Health Authority to update any registration information for an elector who is already registered to vote. Provides that an elector may update the elector’s registration infor- mation by submitting a registration card. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2023 | Relating to applied behavior analysis. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act makes some health insurers cover ABA therapy for a few more diagnoses in the same way it covers it for ASD. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Establishes certain health insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis therapy for certain intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses with the same requirements for coverage as autism spectrum disorder diagnoses. Sunsets on January 2, 2030. | Dead |
| HB2012 | Relating to private security services; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would alter a definition with respect to laws about private security services. The Act will take effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Modifies the definition of “private security entity” for purposes of private security requirements. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2045 | Relating to trespassers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act requires a court to order the removal of a trespasser at the land owner’s re- quest. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent. Requires law enforcement to execute the order. Provides for statu- tory damages for individuals harmed by wrongful use of the process. | Dead |
| HB2391 | Relating to an income tax credit for sheriff's deputies in rural counties; 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 sheriff’s deputies in rural counties. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 69.9). Establishes an income tax credit for sheriff’s deputies employed in rural counties. 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 |
| HB2058 | Relating to conforming estate tax to federal basic exclusion amount; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would set a static, permanent match for the estate tax exemption, tied to the federal exempt amount for 2025 deaths. The Act would become law on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Provides that, for the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026, Oregon estate tax is not due unless the value of the Oregon taxable estate exceeds $13.99 million. Raises the threshold for the filing of an estate tax return to a gross estate valued at more than $13.99 million. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2305 | Relating to termination of residential tenancy for repeated violations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows a landlord to evict upon a tenant’s third breach. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Allows a landlord to terminate residential tenancy upon third material violation or late payment upon 30 days’ notice with no right to cure. | Dead |
| HB2455 | Relating to home occupations on lands zoned for resource uses. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act allows an owner of a home on lands zoned for farm or forest use to operate a business in the home. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Allows home occupations on lands zoned for resource use to be operated by a property owner who is not a resident of the property. | Dead |
| HB2689 | Relating to the competitiveness of the Oregon food sector; 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 promoting the purchase of Oregon food sector products by persons in other states. The Act tells the agency to study topics related to the Oregon food sector. The Act gives money for the program and the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.1). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a program to promote the purchase of Oregon-made food and beverage products by persons in other states. Directs the department to study the competitiveness of food and beverage processing businesses in Oregon. Directs the department to report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates money to the department out of the General Fund for the program and the study. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3655 | Relating to lagoon wastewater treatment systems. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells the DEQ to make a program to test and certify wastewater lagoon oper- ators. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a program for examination and certification of operators of lagoon wastewater treatment systems. | Dead |
| HB3778 | Relating to the withdrawal of the federally approved state plan concerning workplace safety; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act directs the DCBS to obtain approval from federal OSHA to withdraw the state plan. The Act repeals the statutes that implemented the state plan. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.3). Directs the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to notify the United States Secretary of Labor of the intent to withdraw the federally approved state plan. The Act forbids the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt or enforce any rule, regulation or standard that is more stringent than any federal occupational health and safety rule, regulation or standard adopted under the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. Becomes operative on December 1, 2026, or 60 days after the date on which the United States Secretary of Labor approves the withdrawal of the state plan. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3723 | Relating to registering to vote by voter registration card; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act ends the transfer of voter registration data from ODOT and the OHA to the SOS. The Act ends voter registration for those who are at least 16 years old. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.8). Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Trans- portation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State. Repeals the process for reg- istration of those persons who are at least 16 years of age. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3057 | Relating to adoption awareness. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells DHS to create an adoption awareness program. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Directs the Department of Human Services to establish the Adoption Awareness Program to be administered by a nonprofit organization or agency. | Dead |
| HB2539 | Relating to associate's degrees; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the HECC to create a plan that allows students at community colleges to earn credits from certain training programs. Tells the HECC to give a report on the plan to the legisla- ture. Ends the plan on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency and takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop a plan for enabling com- munity colleges to offer an associate’s degree completed in coordination with credits earned in an apprenticeship or training program. Requires the commission to submit a report detailing the plan by September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2690 | Relating to the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act creates a committee to review proposed measures that require a health plan to pay for a certain type of health service or a health service that is provided by a certain type of provider of health care. The committee must report the results of its review of each measure to the legislature. The LPRO director staffs the committee. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legisla- tive Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative As- sembly to review a specified number of proposed measures sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service. Specifies the membership of the committee and the type of review that the committee must under- take. Requires the committee to produce a report of its findings on each proposed measure no later than January 15 of the year in which the measure may be introduced or 15 days after a review is requested, whichever is later. Requires the director to report to the Legislative Assembly, by September 15, 2027, on the work of the committee and recommendations for legislation. Sunsets June 30, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HCR20 | Amending Legislative Branch Personnel Rule 27 and adopting Legislative Branch Personnel Rule 27-C. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The measure makes changes to LBPR 27 to limit the role of secrecy in investigations made under the rule. The measure says that a person being investigated has a right to a lawyer, with the costs paid for by the LEO, a right to discover evidence and question witnesses and a right to appeal to a court. The measure makes changes to the standard of proof for facts. (Flesch Read- ability Score 60.6). Modifies Legislative Branch Personnel Rule 27 to eliminate confidential reports or information being used for investigations performed under the rule by requiring disclosure at conclusion of in- vestigation. Authorizes an investigation respondent to obtain independent counsel to be paid for by the Legislative Equity Officer. Provides that an investigation respondent has the right to discover evidence and depose witnesses. Requires that findings of fact must be established beyond a reason- able doubt. Provides that a respondent who is subject to remedial measures has the right to appeal the determination to a court for de novo judicial review. Provides that a person subject to the rule may not be accused of violating the rule for the same conduct that was previously not found to vi- olate the rule. | Dead |
| HB3422 | Relating to energy facility compliance with statewide planning goals; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Adds to the standards that must be met for EFSC to take an exception to a planning goal for a proposed energy facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility. Applies to exceptions taken on or after the effective date of this Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3133 | Relating to farm stands. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act amends rules for farm stands on farm lands. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Amends conditions under which a county must approve a farm stand on lands zoned for exclu- sive farm use. | Dead |
| HB2022 | Relating to certificates of need. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes an exception to the certificate of need process. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Excludes facilities providing rehabilitation services to individuals with brain injuries or spinal cord injuries from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority. | 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 |
| HB3252 | Relating to administrative rules regarding agricultural labor housing; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes new laws for how administrative rules apply to farmworker labor hous- ing. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or lo- cation of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation. Prohibits the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services from retroactively enforcing the rules with respect to certain agricultural housing unless there exists an immediate hazard to the health and safety of agricultural workers occupying the housing. Prohibits the director from adopting rules that require the relocation, modification or demolition of certain agricultural labor housing to comply with certain rules adopted on or after the effective date of this Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3939 | Relating to infrastructure projects; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act gives OBDD moneys to grant to cities for housing infrastructure. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Extends the temporary Oregon Business Development Department residential infrastructure grant program by two years. Appropriates moneys for specified cities and projects. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. | 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 |
| HB3139 | Relating to the assessment of rebuilt homesteads; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would let a county grant a property tax break to homes rebuilt after being de- stroyed by a wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Authorizes a county to allow a homestead rebuilt by the same owner on the same lot to replace the homestead destroyed by wildfire to have a specially assessed value equal to the destroyed homestead’s real market value for the property tax year during which the homestead is destroyed, to the extent of the square footage of the destroyed homestead. Provides that the specially assessed value continues until the earliest of the date on which the rebuilt homestead is no longer the owner’s principal dwelling, is rented to another person for any duration or is transferred to new ownership. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3432 | Relating to the redemption of beverage containers at wineries. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act lets wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery. | Dead |
| HB3944 | Relating to wildfire; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act repeals laws related to the building code, laws making areas less at risk for wildfire, laws about fire protection for certain lands and a map of wildfire hazard. The Act makes changes related to helping with defensible space. The Act makes changes related to certain areas near forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map. Makes changes related to defensible space. Makes changes related to the wildland-urban interface. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3120 | Relating to earned income tax credits; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act modifies the earned income tax credit and extends the sunset for the credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax. Provides an additional percentage tier based upon the age of the youngest de- pendent of the taxpayer. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Extends the sunset for the earned income tax credit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3470 | Relating to verification of voter registration information. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the SOS to confirm voter registration data from ODOT and OHA. The Act tells the secretary not to send the data to a county clerk until and unless the person is confirmed to be a U.S. citizen. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7). Requires the Secretary of State to verify information provided to the secretary by the Depart- ment of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority regarding voter registration. Prohibits the secretary from providing voter registration information the secretary receives from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to a county clerk until and unless the secretary verifies that the voter is a United States citizen. | 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 |
| HB2447 | Relating to boats. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the State Marine Board to study boat safety. The Act tells the board to make a report on the results of the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorboats. Directs the board to submit findings to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative As- sembly not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3551 | Relating to the enforcement of federal immigration laws with respect to individuals who are convicted of a crime. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells public bodies and bodies that enforce state laws to help enforce the nation’s im- migration laws. Applies only to persons who are convicted of certain crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Requires public bodies and law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws with respect to any individual who is convicted of a violent felony or Class A misdemeanor or felony sexual offense. | Dead |
| SB301 | Relating to boats. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells the State Marine Board to study boat safety. The Act tells the board to make a report on the results of the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorboats. Directs the board to submit findings to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative As- sembly not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027. | Dead |
| HB3473 | Relating to registering to vote by voter registration card; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act ends the transfer of voter registration data from ODOT and the OHA to the SOS. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 64.7). Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Trans- portation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB2435 | Relating to monthly statistical report on voter registrations. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Tells the SOS to publish a monthly report on voter data in each county. Specifies the data to be included in the report. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Requires the Secretary of State to publish a monthly statistical report on voter registrations for each county in this state. Specifies the statistical information to be included in the monthly report. | Dead |
| HB2390 | Relating to tax credits for rural medical providers; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act raises the amount of the tax credit that rural medical providers can get. The Act also says that the provider can get the tax credit no matter how much money they make. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers. Removes the el- igibility limitation based on the adjusted gross income of the medical provider. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | 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 |
| SB587 | Relating to an income tax subtraction for amounts received in wildfire litigation; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Exempts awards from and legal fees paid in wildfire suits from corporate excise and in- come tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire. Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for wildfire-related legal fees paid by plaintiffs. Allows a taxpayer to amend a return to claim a refund for earliest tax year in which subtraction is allowed. Applies to declarations and executive orders issued on or after January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2026, and to amounts received, losses incurred and legal fees paid in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3753 | Relating to increases of the personal income tax standard deduction; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes the standard deduction that is for the payers of personal income tax bigger. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3558 | Relating to substance use. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act changes how the term “recovery” is defined in laws relating to substance use. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Modifies the definition of “recovery” in the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. | 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 |
| 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 |
| HB3969 | 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 |
| SB707 | Relating to exemption of prescription drug sales; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act makes certain rural pharmacy drug sale receipts not taxed by the CAT. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Expands the exemption for receipts from the sale of prescription drugs from commercial activity subject to the corporate activity tax to include critical access pharmacies. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3196 | Relating to state finance; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act gives money to DOJ for purposes related to VOCA grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Digest: The Act gives money to DOJ to backfill reductions in VOCA grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to backfill reductions in for purposes re- lated to federal Victims of Crime Act grants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | Dead |
| HB3654 | Relating to matching grants for cities; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would set a maximum percent required for matching grants made by the state to small cities for capital projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for capital construction and municipal infrastructure. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB2735 | Relating to individual development accounts. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act raises the cap on total tax credits allowed for IDA donations. (Flesch Read- ability Score: 63.4). Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts. Aligns the date by which donations must be made to qualify for a credit with the underlying sunset date for the credit. | Dead |
| HB3119 | Relating to the delay of certain motor vehicle emissions standards; declaring an emergency. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act tells DEQ to wait to enforce some California rules on truck exhaust. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Ad- vanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. | 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 |
| HB3914 | Relating to an income tax subtraction for tips received; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act exempts tips from personal income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year. 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 |
| HB3142 | Relating to employment subject to unemployment insurance taxes; prescribing an effective date. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act would make it so that employers do not have to pay unemployment taxes on the wages of noncitizens who work here on H-2A visas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | Dead |
| HB3224 | Relating to background checks; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to background checks; and declaring an emergency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB586 | Relating to termination of tenancy due to sale of dwelling unit; and prescribing an effective date. | AN ACT Relating to termination of tenancy due to sale of dwelling unit; amending ORS 90.427 and 105.124; and prescribing an effective date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR38 | Recognizing and honoring Deputy Paul Emerson Baker for his service to this state. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the life and service of Deputy Paul E. Baker. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Recognizes and honors Deputy Paul Emerson Baker (1928-1982) for his service to this state. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB699 | Relating to medical devices. | AN ACT Relating to medical devices; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 743A.145. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2668 | Relating to search and rescue. | AN ACT Relating to search and rescue. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2307 | Relating to fluorescent lamps purchased by school districts; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to fluorescent lamps purchased by school districts; creating new provisions; amending ORS 459.488; and declaring an emergency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2019 | Relating to Oregon Adoption Day; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to Oregon Adoption Day; and declaring an emergency. Whereas every child deserves a happy childhood and a permanent, nurturing and loving family; and Whereas every day, families are strengthened and expanded when committed and dedicated in- dividuals make an important difference in the life of a child through adoption; and Whereas nearly a quarter of individuals in the United States have considered adoption, but many individuals have misperceptions about the process of adopting children; and Whereas it is essential that national, state and local governments strive to make it easier for more children to find safe and caring homes and to ensure that adoptive families have the support they need; and Whereas National Adoption Day currently raises awareness of children in foster care, but it is equally important that we celebrate individuals of all ages who are adoptees and honor all families that have been built through adoption; and Whereas an annual statewide day of celebration in Oregon will recognize the bonds of love shared by adoptive families across this state and celebrate the thousands of adoptive families who have opened their hearts to provide safe and caring homes; and Whereas bringing awareness to adoption through an annual statewide day of celebration will encourage more Oregonians to consider growing their families through adoption; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB1099 | Relating to use of real property for education; and declaring an emergency. | AN ACT Relating to use of real property for education; amending ORS 215.441 and 227.500; and declaring an emergency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR11 | Recognizing and honoring the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025. | The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: Honors the growth and the goals of NCSL on the 50th anniversary of its founding. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Recognizes and honors the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025. | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB3992 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 09/01/2025 | Absent |
| HCR51 | Adjourning sine die the 2025 special session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly. | House Read and Adopted | 09/01/2025 | Absent |
| HB3991 | Relating to transportation; prescribing an effective date; and providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. | House Third Reading | 09/01/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Motion to Reconsider | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| HB3402 | Relating to transportation; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. | House Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| SB1154 | Relating to ground water. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB1173 | Relating to product liability civil actions; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB1173 | Relating to product liability civil actions; and prescribing an effective date. | House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill | 06/27/2025 | Absent |
| HB2005 | Relating to behavioral health; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB3984 | Relating to wildfires; declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB3984 | Relating to wildfires; declaring an emergency. | House Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) | 06/27/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB2138 | Relating to land use; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| SB5543 | Relating to the financial administration of the Water Resources Department; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB5515 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Education; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB296 | Relating to hospital discharge challenges; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB5541 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Transportation; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| SB95 | Relating to judicial positions; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SB75 | Relating to wildfire hazard requirements for nonurban dwellings. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB51 | Relating to housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB136 | Relating to developmental disabilities services providers. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB598 | Relating to step therapy for nonopioids. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB163 | Relating to parentage; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| SB48 | Relating to housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Absent |
| SB537 | Relating to violence in health care settings. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| SB684 | Relating to housing; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Absent |
| HB3865 | Relating to telephone solicitations. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB3942 | Relating to an expedited licensure process for health care facilities. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 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 | Nay |
| SB243 | Relating to firearms; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB3794 | Relating to municipal solid waste; and prescribing an effective date. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Absent |
| SB1125 | Relating to unmanned aircraft systems. | House Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2005 | Relating to behavioral health; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| SB5538 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of the State Fire Marshal; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB2658 | Relating to conditions of development. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB822 | Relating to provider networks. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB83 | Relating to wildfire; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB863 | Relating to cost recovery for fire protection. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB75 | Relating to wildfire hazard requirements for nonurban dwellings. | House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5527 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| HB5016 | Relating to the financial administration of legislative branch agencies; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB236 | Relating to controlled substances; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5537 | Relating to the financial administration of the Secretary of State; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB5534 | Relating to the financial administration of the Public Employees Retirement System; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB837 | Relating to a volunteer registry. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB5528 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Land Conservation and Development; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB5545 | Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB5542 | Relating to the financial administration of the State Treasurer; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB836 | Relating to fees imposed by the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| SB829 | Relating to affordable housing; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB5536 | Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Revenue; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB454 | Relating to the revenue of rural fire protection districts; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading | 06/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB3410 | Relating to health care; and declaring an emergency. | House Third Reading in Concurrence | 06/24/2025 | Nay |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Oregon House Labor and Workforce Development Interim Committee | Vice Chair | 2 |
| Detail | Oregon House Labor and Workplace Standards Interim Committee | Vice Chair | 2 |
| Detail | Oregon House Rules Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Oregon Joint Legislative Policy and Research Committee | 3 | |
| Detail | Oregon Joint Ways and Means Committee | 7 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | Oregon House District 24 | House | Republican | In Office | 01/09/2023 |