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ORHB2248Intro
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The Act tells BOLI to study matters related to the laws that BOLI enforces. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to laws over ...
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2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2249Intro
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The Act makes BOLI study and report on matters relating to on-the-job training programs in this state. Tells BOLI to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduc...
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2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2688Intro
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Makes a certain wage apply to custom work done off-site but for a particular public works project. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site custom work fabricated, assembled or produced in accordance w...
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2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3024Intro
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The Act would get rid of the cut in maximum benefits when a worker is barred from benefits due to not working for cause and has not earned four times weekly benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Eliminates the reduction of an individual's maxim...
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2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2425Intro
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Tells a public body that buys electric cars or solar panels that it needs proof from the vendor that no forced labor was used in producing the car or panel. Specifies penalties for lying about the proof. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8). Requires pub...
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2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3640Intro
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The Act makes new laws with respect to the registration of farm worker housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires that rules adopted by the Department of Consumer and Business Services with respect to the registration of farmworker camps be ...
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2025-02-21
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3181Intro
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The Act creates the Task Force on Youth Apprenticeship. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.2). Establishes the Task Force on Youth Apprenticeship. Requires the task force to submit a report to the interim c...
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2025-02-19
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3187Intro
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The Act changes laws with respect to discrimination based on age. The Act takes effect 91 days after adjournment. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Clarifies the meaning of "because of age" for purposes of employment discrimination law. Permits obser...
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2025-02-19
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2728Intro
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The Act tells PERS to put data about overtime in the letter sent to a retiring member of PERS. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Public Employees Retirement System to include information about the use of overtime hours in calculating the ...
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2025-02-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3363Intro
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The Act changes how overtime is used in OPSRP. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Modifies how the overtime cap is calculated for use in calculating the final average salary of members of the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
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2025-02-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2944Intro
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The Act makes changes to the PECBA. The Act creates penalties for violating certain provisions of the PECBA. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Permits a labor organization to file a civil action against a public employer for failing to timely provide...
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2025-02-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3216Intro
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Tells people who must pay a certain wage to workers who do construction on public works to send to a state agency reports about what they pay the workers. Says that the reports must be done online at a particular website. Tells the state agency to cr...
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2025-02-12
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3142Intro
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The Act would make it so that employers do not have to pay unemployment taxes on the wages of noncitizens who work here on H-2A visas. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for u...
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2025-02-12
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3550Intro
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The Act exempts certain sports players from some state laws about working conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Exempts from certain laws governing certain employment conditions minor league baseball players who are subject to a collective ba...
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2025-02-12
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2799Intro
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The Act would remove the cap on awards for the costs and attorney fees incurred by a worker in a dispute over a workers' comp claim. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Removes the cap on reasonable litigation costs and expenses and attorney fees for a...
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2025-02-12
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2957Intro
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The Act prohibits certain contracts that shorten certain statutes of limitations. The Act sets the time limits for when BOLI must issue a notice of rights to a complainant. The Act sets the time limits for when a complainant must file a lawsuit after...
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2025-02-10
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2792Intro
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Makes a hospital report on what it spends to replace employees during a strike or lockout. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires a hospital to report the amount the hospital spends for individuals to replace employees involved in a strike or loc...
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2025-02-10
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3516Intro
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The Act tells the AG to study issues about following state laws related to workplace safety and health. The Act requires a report to be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Attorney General to study m...
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2025-02-07
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3490Intro
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The Act would lift certain limits on the practice of chiropractors in workers' comp claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Removes the limits on the duration of medical services, the number of visits and the areas of practice for chiropractic phys...
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2025-02-06
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3457Intro
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The Act makes all employers use E-Verify for new hires. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires employers to use the federal E-Verify employment verification system to verify the employment eligibility of employees.
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2025-02-06
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3491Intro
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The Act tells OED to study issues related to paid family and medical leave. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medica...
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2025-02-06
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2125Intro
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The Act would let the unpaid first week of an unemployment claim be waived for a worker who is away from work due to a severe weather emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to waive the unpai...
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2025-02-05
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2800Intro
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The Act would change the law to reflect the use of PEOs by businesses to coemploy workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Changes the term "worker leasing company" to "professional employer organization" in statute to reflect the use of PEOs by bu...
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2025-02-03
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2570Intro
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The Act makes new disclosure laws. The Act requires the director of DCBS to not disclose to the public any information that could be used to identify certain employees who take part in certain OSHA inspections. The Act creates exceptions. The Act req...
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2025-02-03
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2802Intro
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The Act would change when a lump sum payment for permanent partial disability has to be made. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires an insurer to make a lump sum payment of a permanent partial disability award if the worker waives reconsideratio...
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2025-02-03
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3367Intro
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The Act would change a definition with respect to laws about farmworker camps. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Modifies the definition of "farmworker camp" so that the relevant statutes apply to farmworker camps specifically in connection with work...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3374Intro
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The Act would let SAIF form or acquire subsidiaries. The Act would let SAIF or a subsidiary provide managed care to injured workers. The Act would require the Department of Consumer and Business Services to make an annual audit of the managed care th...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3434Intro
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The Act would repeal the law that denies benefits to a person who is unemployed due to an active labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified f...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3269Intro
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The Act would create a staffing committee at each DOC facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Establishes a correctional facility staffing committee within each Department of Corrections facility. Directs the committee to develop a written facili...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3288Intro
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The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemplo...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3319Intro
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The Act would allow for lower premiums for a type of insurance in some situations. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Permits the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to evaluate the risk the corporation has insured for employers during the past ...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3331Intro
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The Act says that a portion of dividends paid by SAIF must be redirected into a fund for disaster preparedness. The Act creates a board to advise on how the fund is used. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.1). Provides that a percentage of dividends paid ...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3252Intro
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The Act makes new laws for how administrative rules apply to farmworker labor housing. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting,...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3297Intro
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The Act tells BOLI to study issues related to employment in this state. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in th...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB3316Intro
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The Act makes laws that would require video recordings of certain labor negotiations. The Act would take effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Requires video recordings of labor negotiations conducted by or on behalf of...
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2025-01-24
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2938Intro
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The Act would make changes to laws regarding penalty wages. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Permits a collective bargaining agreement to prescribe due dates for the payment of wages upon termination that do not require interpretation. Provides that...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2245Intro
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Tells a state agency to study how the state watches firms that do construction. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Construction Contractors Board to study construction contractors. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim commi...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2745Intro
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The Act would set the time by which benefits would have to be paid to a worker when the employer is being investigated for not complying with workers' comp law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Provides the timeline for payment of temporary disabili...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2242Intro
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The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment. Directs the department to su...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2243Intro
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The Act tells OED to study issues related to paid family and medical leave. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medica...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2820Intro
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Tells a public agency not to take an offer for a public contract from a not-for-profit company if the person who earns the most money at the company earns more than 50 times as much as the person who earns the least money. Takes effect on the 91st da...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2314Intro
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The Act tells ODA and DCBS to agree to let ODA enforce rules relating to farmworker housing. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the State Departm...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2031Intro
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The Act alters a definition for the PECBA. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Makes changes to the definition of "appropriate bargaining unit" to clarify that athletic trainers are included in positions considered to be academically licensed. Takes ef...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2188Intro
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The Act repeals laws that required paid family leave benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals provisions of the paid family and medical leave insurance program.
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2743Intro
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The Act would create new laws for adult entertainment establishments. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires adult entertainment establishments to be registered with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis ...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2786Intro
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The Act makes laws about unused sick leave and vacation leave payouts. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Requires employers who provide sick leave, vacation leave or personal business leave benefits to employees to compensate employees for all earned...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2244Intro
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The Act tells DCBS to study issues relating to workplace safety. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating ...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2020Intro
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Says that a company that gives work to people with disabilities must use people with disabilities for at least 50 percent of the work hours that go into making goods or doing services. Says what must happen if a public agency ends a contract for good...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2694Intro
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The Act would require the ERB to set up a system where people can register as union representatives. The Act does not allow anyone to act as a union representative unless they are registered in the system. The Act sets fines for breaking the law. (Fl...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2711Intro
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The Act would pay UI benefits to gig workers when an emergency is declared in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Provides a worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during a state of emergency declared by the Governor to unemployed ...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
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