| OR | SB1578 | Pass | The Act directs the OHA to set up a health care interpreter management system. The Act requires the OHA to contract with a nonprofit entity to establish a recruitment and retention program. The Act sets out certain requirements for the nonprofit. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| 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 | SB1532 | Pass | Directs ODE to make a plan for the education of students who are immigrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide education plan for students who are asylum seekers, refugees or an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SB1503 | Pass | The Act makes a task force on community safety and suicide prevention. The Act provides money for research on those topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Establishes the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention and requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| OR | SB1557 | Pass | The Act requires the OHA to take certain steps to make sure that certain people who are under 21 years of age receive the services and supports that they qualify for. The Act requires the OHA and DHS to make sure that children and youth who are serve...
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB1533 | Pass | Tells the SOS to translate the voters' pamphlet into the 10 most common languages used in each county. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Increases, from 5 to 10, the number of the most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SB1553 | Pass | The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| 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 | SB1502 | Pass | Requires most public schools and college boards to video record their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private or if a school district is very small. (Flesch Readab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SB1587 | Pass | The Act protects a children's advocacy center from legal action for looking into the abuse of a child if a nationwide group says that the center meets certain standards. The Act protects the center's employees, too. The Act does not protect a center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| OR | SB1567 | Pass | The Act tells an agency to take actions on water in the Walla Walla River Basin. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to the Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SCR209 | Pass | Honors the life and memory of Joanne Russell Verger. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). In memoriam: Joanne Russell Verger, 1930-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Filed With Secretary of State. |
