| OR | SB1561 | Pass | This Act creates a council and funds to distribute and invest money from a legal settlement. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council. Directs the council to establish programs to distribute moneys from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, April 4, 2024. |
| OR | SB1595 | Pass | The Act increases some amounts that are protected from debt collectors. The Act changes some laws about bad debt collection methods. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Increases certain exemptions from garnishment and execution. Modifies provisions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, April 4, 2024. |
| OR | SB1585 | Pass | The Act requires DHS to set up a task force and come up with a plan for a program that allows people who receive SNAP aid to be able to use the aid to buy hot foods and hot foods that are ready to eat. The Act says who must be on the task force. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| OR | HB4151 | Pass | The Act makes a small group to look at the youth behavioral workforce. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce. Requires the subcommittee to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 88, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024. |
| OR | HB4154 | Pass | Creates a fund to help the electronic chip industry. The Act becomes law 91 days after adjournment. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Establishes the Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund [and subaccounts of the fund]. Requires the Higher Education Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 89, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| OR | HB4156 | Pass | The Act makes changes to crimes related to stalking. The Act also changes the definitions for stalking laws. The Act takes effect on July 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 90, (2024 Laws): Effective date July 1, 2024. |
| OR | HB4098 | Pass | The Act would create the CHIPS Child Care Fund. The Act would tell the Oregon Business Development Department to work with the Bureau of Labor and Industries to make a program to help fund child care. The Act would create a work group related to fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 81, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024. |
| OR | HB4153 | Pass | Creates a task force to look for and find words and meanings related to artificial intelligence that may be used in laws. Makes task force report its findings on or before December 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Establishes the Task Force...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 44, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| OR | SB1581 | Pass | The Act makes an electric company report each year on the steps taken or being taken to be part of an energy market. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires an investor-owned utility that sells more than two million megawatt hours of electricity i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SB1571 | Pass | The Act would require a disclosure of the use of AI or other similar technology in campaign ads. The Act would create a way to enforce the requirement and to impose a fine for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a disclosure of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| OR | SB1580 | Pass | The Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). [Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its worke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| OR | HB4147 | Pass | Authorizes the use of stop arm cameras on school buses to record people who do not stop for bus safety lights. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 43, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SB1596 | Pass | Requires someone that makes electronic items for consumers to give on fair terms to those who look at, maintain or fix the items what they need to maintain or fix the items. Fair terms means, in part, giving independent people what they need on the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SCR213 | Pass | Honors the life and memory of Ken Leisten. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Recognizes and honors Specialist Ken "Kenny" Leisten (1984-2004) for his service to his country.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Filed With Secretary of State. |
| OR | SB1572 | Fail | The Act requires ODOT to study extending the WES commuter rail line to Salem. The Act creates an advisory committee to aid ODOT in its study. Requires ODOT to partner with the advisory committee as part of the process of conducting the study. Tells O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1583 | Fail | This Act does not allow a board or a person to choose or not choose materials that are used in a school when the choice is discrimination. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1592 | Fail | Gives money to a state agency to give to some colleges to help train more mental health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1591 | Fail | The Act allows DHS to license adult foster homes with up to seven residents. The Act sets out the requirements for licensing an adult foster home with six or seven residents. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes the Department of Human Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4050 | Fail | The Act removes an exception to the state law concerning pay equity requirements. The Act changes the law to add to the list of factors that an employer can use as a reason for a pay differential. The Act becomes effective when the Governor signs it....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HJR202 | Fail | Requires a majority of the members of the House and the Senate to be present to take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require a majority of each house of the Legislative Assembly to be pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4067 | Fail | The Act creates the Task Force on Electric Micromobility. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.9). Creates the Task Force on Electric Micromobility. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2024. Declares an emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1560 | Fail | The Act creates the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release. The Act directs the task force to submit a report to the legislature by December 31, 2024. The Act takes effect when it is signed by the Governor. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). [Dig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1593 | Fail | The Act would impose a new tax on the gross proceeds from the sale of unprocessed timber cut on private land larger than 500 acres held in common ownership. The Act would provide funding to counties and to protect homes, neighborhoods and water suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4089 | Fail | The Act makes laws with respect to certain health care employee work schedules and on-call shifts. The Act makes laws with respect to hospital financial reporting and transparency. The Act directs hospitals to report to the OHA. The Act permits the O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4101 | Fail | Tells the Secretary of State to get data about a person's background if the person tries to register a business in this state and wants to give the data. Lets the Secretary of State share the data with some people, but says to keep it secret otherwis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4135 | Fail | The Act creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event and directs the CJC to report certain data to the legislature about the new crime. The Act prohibits the possession of a gun by a person convicted of the new crime. The Act takes effect on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1570 | Fail | The Act gives money to the YMCA to be used for a social services resource center. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for distribution to the Family YMCA of Marion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1586 | Fail | The Act changes the state law that prohibits housing discrimination. The Act removes an exemption from the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Removes from state law an exception that allowed for residential property owners to engage in housing di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1559 | Fail | This Act changes the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. The Act changes the term "global warming" to "climate change" in some laws. The Act declares an emergency and takes effect when it passes. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.4). Modifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1590 | Fail | The Act repeals laws related to boats and towed sports. The Act changes laws about boating safety education. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Repeals provisions related to the towed watersport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1594 | Fail | The Act creates the Task Force on Improving the Safety of Behavioral Health Workers. The Act says who must be on the task force and the duties of the task force. The Act creates a program in which OHA pays persons who run places that provide mental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4088 | Fail | The Act directs hospitals to take actions with respect to the protection of hospital employees. The Act directs the OHA to administer a grant program. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). [Digest: The Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4090 | Fail | Removes EFSC power over a project that makes clean power or is a power line, is only on U.S. lands and is reviewed under NEPA. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HCR203 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Filed with Secretary of State. |
