Bill Text: OR HB3506 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to bilingual election requirements; and prescribing an effective date.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-14 - Chapter 755, (2013 Laws): Effective date October 7, 2013. [HB3506 Detail]
Download: Oregon-2013-HB3506-Enrolled.html
77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session
Enrolled
House Bill 3506
Sponsored by Representative GALLEGOS; Representatives BAILEY,
BARKER, DEMBROW, DOHERTY, FREDERICK, GARRETT, GELSER, GORSEK,
GREENLICK, HARKER, KENY-GUYER, MCKEOWN, TOMEI, UNGER, VEGA
PEDERSON, WITT, Senators BURDICK, STEINER HAYWARD
CHAPTER ................
AN ACT
Relating to bilingual election requirements; and prescribing an
effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. { + (1) The Task Force on + } { + Minority
Language Voting Materials is established, consisting of six to
nine members appointed as follows:
(a) The Secretary of State or the secretary's designee.
(b) The Director of the Elections Division, or the director's
designee.
(c) The President of the Senate shall appoint one member from
among members of the Senate.
(d) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
one member from among members of the House of Representatives.
(e) The Secretary of State and the two members of the
Legislative Assembly appointed under paragraphs (c) and (d) of
this subsection, based on a majority vote among these three
individuals:
(A) Shall appoint two county clerks.
(B) May appoint one to three additional members to the task
force from the community at large. An individual appointed under
this subparagraph must be an expert in language issues, community
organization or population analysis.
(2) The task force shall determine the best way to ensure that
members of large language-minority communities receive necessary
voter materials in the applicable minority language. In reaching
this determination, the task force must analyze:
(a) The point at which a language minority community is large
enough to warrant voter materials being published in that
language;
(b) Which election materials should be provided in one or more
minority languages;
(c) Whether minority language voter materials should be
provided on the Internet, in printed form or a combination of the
two;
(d) Whether minority language voter materials should be
published at the state or local level;
(e) How translation services should balance accuracy,
differences in dialect and price; and
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(f) How to ensure that the state receives accurate and complete
data on the number and location of individuals who speak minority
languages.
(3) In addition to the issues set forth in subsection (2) of
this section, the task force may conduct research and make
recommendations on any other issue relating to voting, voting
materials or the voting process for language minorities. In
conducting its work, the task force may request assistance from
any expert willing to volunteer the expert's time and expertise
to assisting the task force.
(4) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes a
quorum for the transaction of business.
(5) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the members of the task force.
(6) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson.
(7) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing
authority shall make an appointment to become immediately
effective.
(8) The task force shall meet at times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of
the task force.
(9) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operation
of the task force.
(10) The task force shall submit a report in the manner
provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for
legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to rules no later than October 1, 2014.
(11) The Secretary of State shall provide staff support to the
task force.
(12) Members of the task force who are not members of the
Legislative Assembly are not entitled to compensation, but may be
reimbursed for actual and necessary travel and other expenses
incurred by them in the performance of their official duties in
the manner and amounts provided for in ORS 292.495. Claims for
expenses incurred in performing functions of the task force shall
be paid out of funds appropriated to Secretary of State for
purposes of the task force.
(13) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS
174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performance
of its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to
confidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as the
members of the task force consider necessary to perform their
duties. + }
SECTION 2. { + Section 1 of this 2013 Act is repealed on the
date of the convening of the 2015 regular session of the
Legislative Assembly as specified in ORS 171.010. + }
SECTION 3. { + This 2013 Act takes effect on the 91st day
after the date on which the 2013 regular session of the
Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die. + }
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Passed by House June 27, 2013
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Ramona J. Line, Chief Clerk of House
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Tina Kotek, Speaker of House
Passed by Senate July 1, 2013
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Peter Courtney, President of Senate
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Received by Governor:
......M.,............., 2013
Approved:
......M.,............., 2013
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John Kitzhaber, Governor
Filed in Office of Secretary of State:
......M.,............., 2013
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Kate Brown, Secretary of State
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