| OR | SB425 | Intro
25% | Says that a merchant cannot charge a fee to use a credit card or debit card if the merchant does not accept cash. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Prohibits a merchant from charging or collecting a fee for a person's use of a credit card or debit ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB851 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to PERS. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Modifies provisions relating to the Public Employees Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB430 | Intro
25% | Tells an online seller to show a summary of all of the fees that come with a sale to a buyer before making the sale. Says that the buyer has to have a chance to approve the summary before buying. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.4). Specifies disclosure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB849 | Intro
25% | The Act changes how PERS uses the money in the SDULF. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). Changes the application of moneys in the School Districts Unfunded Liability Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB852 | Intro
25% | Changes some death benefits under PERS. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Modifies certain post-retirement death benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB922 | Intro
25% | The Act requires credit card tips to be given to certain employees within 24 hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires employers to distribute to food service industry employees the tips received from credit card transactions within 24 hours ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB858 | Intro
25% | Makes changes to laws related to paid family and medical leave. The Act becomes law 91 days from sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0). Requires the Director of the Employment Department to conduct periodic assessments to determine the solvency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB914 | Intro
25% | The Act requires billboards for the state lottery to have a phone number for problem gambling help. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires that certain billboards related to the state lottery include information about a problem gambling helpline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB904 | Intro
25% | The Act would let school districts apply to be exempt from the law that requires self-insured employers to submit proof that they will be able pay workers' comp claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Includes school districts among the self-insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB879 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to how a person can rebut a presumption that certain people are not able to pay child support. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Modifies procedure for rebutting presumption of inability to pay child support when an obligor earn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB463 | Intro
25% | Tells a state agency to do a report about how well the state's Insurance Fund is doing. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by August 30 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB69 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OED to study issues related to job-protected time of from work. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to laws concerning job...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB928 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB921 | Intro
25% | This Act requires OBDD to study shipyards. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study needed investments in shipyards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB900 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OED to study issues related to job-protected time off from work. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to laws concerning jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB903 | Intro
25% | The Act requires BOLI to study certain issues about pay equity. The Act requires BOLI to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues regarding the payment of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB859 | Intro
25% | The Act allows the Director of OED to make some accounting adjustments with respect to paid family and medical leave insurance. The Act becomes law 91 days from sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Authorizes the Director of the Employment Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB397 | Intro
25% | The Act changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies. The Act allows such practices to the extent they comply with federal law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB906 | Intro
25% | The Act makes new requirements for employee pay stubs. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires that itemized statements provided to employees show, in plain language, the amount and purpose of each deduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB916 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB907 | Intro
25% | The Act changes some requirements for a person who wants to be allowed to grow marijuana or psilocybin. The Act states that the person must tell the OHA or the OLCC where the person plans to grow, process or produce the marijuana or psilocybin and wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB902 | Intro
25% | The Act tells PERB to look at the age of retirement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.4). Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study age qualifications for retirement. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB480 | Intro
25% | Tells a state agency to study point of sale systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study contract terms for point of sale systems. Directs the department to submit findings to the inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB569 | Intro
25% | Tells a state agency to grant money to groups that help a business to get certified as a minority owned business so it can have a better chance to get public contracts. Tells the agency to figure out how to award the grants and watch how well the gro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB86 | Intro
25% | The Act clarifies the law with respect to the sick time provided under certain benefit plans. The Act takes effect 91 days following adjournment sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Provides clarification regarding multiemployer exceptions fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB67 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB757 | Intro
25% | The Act tells PERB to look at the treatment of the salary of chaplains and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study the treatment of the salary of chaplains under the Public Employees Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB766 | Intro
25% | The Act puts a cap on the amount that the minimum wage rate may be adjusted for inflation. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Imposes a cap on the percentage increase that the minimum wage rate may be adjusted for inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB68 | Intro
25% | The Act tells BOLI to study matters relating to unpaid, job-protected leave from work. The Act tells BOLI to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB433 | Intro
25% | Lets a person that runs a storage place sell items that are under a lien after putting a notice of the sale online. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.4). Permits the owner of a self-service storage facility to advertise or publish a notice of sale of per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB327 | Intro
25% | The Act is about what happens when a person does not pay a vet for treating an animal. The Act says that a vet may not keep the animal because the person has not paid for the treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.4). Prohibits a veterinarian from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB760 | Intro
25% | Makes new rules about fire safety systems in public buildings. Sets penalties. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the owner of a public building to periodically conduct inspections and test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB871 | Intro
25% | The Act says some people that have OLCC licenses have to keep records on the alcohol they get. The Act also says what "alcoholic beverages" means and says some people do not have to report to the OLCC anymore. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB856 | Intro
25% | The Act allows people connected to the ORC to make bets on races as a part of an official audit. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Authorizes members and staff of the Oregon Racing Commission, and family members thereof, to place bets or wagers on ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB731 | Intro
25% | The Act makes laws about public employer pay differential policies that provide extra pay for certain language skills and sign language skills. The Act requires the extra pay be applied in the same way for each of the skills. (Flesch Readability Scor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB704 | Intro
25% | The Act makes new laws for state agencies to determine the employment status of workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether an individual is an emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB759 | Intro
25% | The Act would have Business Oregon look at how to use a loan loss reserve fund for infrastructure work by underserved communities in this state. The Act would require a report of the study be sent to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2)....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB797 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to laws about C.P.A.s and P.A.s. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Modifies laws regulating public accountancy professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB748 | Intro
25% | The Act would allow drug testing for an initial claim for unemployment in certain cases. The Act would make the Employment Department pay for the tests, not the claimant. The Act would disqualify a claimant who fails a drug test until the claimant re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB87 | Intro
25% | Lets a state agency agree with a local agency how to share duties for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law. Sets higher fines for not obeying the building code. Lets the state agency that governs contractors keep more of the money it collects as fines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB606 | Intro
25% | The Act would add certain health care workers to those whose stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' comp claim is compensable. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB831 | Intro
25% | Makes changes to this state's insurance laws to update rules that make sure that insurers have enough money to keep going. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the person that has ultimate control over an insurer to file a group capital calcula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB583 | Intro
25% | The Act creates a task force to study a state public bank. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.9). Establishes the State Public Bank Task Force. Directs the task force to study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a state public bank. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB227 | Intro
25% | The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB70 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB706 | Intro
25% | The Act requires DAS to study methods to detect paycheck errors. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study methods for detecting paych...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB66 | Intro
25% | The Act would let Business Oregon take stock of loans and grants made by the state to develop the economy. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to survey state loan and grant programs for economic de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB588 | Intro
25% | The Act says that a police or fire worker's PTSD is an on duty disease or injury for PERS disability with some facts. The Act says that the PERB has to hear a challenge about disability benefits in a short time. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.2). Prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB585 | Intro
25% | The Act tells PERB to look at retirement and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Public Employees Retirement Board to study retirement. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
| OR | SB651 | Intro
25% | Tells the Secretary of State to study how to make it easier for a business to file papers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the Secretary of State to study methods for reducing the paperwork filing burden on businesses in this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee |
