| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB4140 | Pass | The Act tells DOJ to include in future budget requests amounts to fund various programs that help victims of crime. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.3). [Digest: The Act gives money to the DOJ to fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 86, (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 | HB4083 | Pass | The Act tells the State Treasurer to stop investing moneys in companies that deal in thermal coal. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to make efforts to eliminate certain investments in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 79, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| OR | HB4084 | Pass | Creates a program for the education of students who are foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children. Sunsets the plan June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 33, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 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 | HB4146 | Pass | The Act allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. The Act also changes an element of a crime related to violating privacy. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Reada...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 42, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 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 | 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 | HB4080 | Pass | States a state policy on offshore wind energy. Tells the state agency on energy to make a road map on standards for offshore wind energy. Makes a person involved in an offshore wind energy or port project meet certain labor and supply chain standards...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 31, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| OR | HB4127 | Pass | Makes quota guidelines for some warehouse workers. Not following this Act is a reason to make a claim to BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements. Creates an exemption for certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 36, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| 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 | HB4117 | Pass | Allows OGEC and OGEC staff to give advice on the public meetings law. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes the Oregon Government Ethics Commission to issue advisory opinions on the application of the public meetings law to actual or hypotheti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 14, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024. |
| 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 | HB4082 | Pass | Directs ODE to fund summer learning programs and to study how to provide learning during nonschool hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Chapter 6, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 12, 2024. |
| OR | HB4150 | Pass | The Act allows for some doctors or people like doctors to be told when a patient overdoses on a drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Chapter 5, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
