| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB1579 | Pass | The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| 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 | 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 | SB1573 | Fail | The Act affects the duty of some contractors with respect to some workers' unpaid wages. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Makes contractor jointly and severally liable in civil or administrative action for unpaid wages of unrepresented employee of s...
[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 | 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. |
