Oregon Senator Mark Meek [D]

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ORSB87Intro
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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...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB549Intro
25%
The Act prohibits OHA and CCOs from making people get prior approval for the repair of CRT. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations from requiring prior authorization for the repair o...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Health Care Committee
ORSB588Intro
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...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB481Intro
25%
Says that a person must get a license to provide earned income access services in this state. Says what the person must do to get the license and how a state agency can decide whether to issue the license. Says what the person can and cannot do in pr...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB480Intro
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...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORHB3131Intro
25%
The Act gives money to a state agency for uses related to working lands. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, fo...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee
ORSB425Intro
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...
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2025-01-23
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB941Intro
25%
This Act requires DLCD to study the supply of land to build homes and grow businesses. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the supply of land to build homes and grow businesses and s...
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2025-01-23
To Senate Housing and Development Committee
ORSB916Intro
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...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORHB3314Intro
25%
This Act gives money to HECC to give to OSU to mitigate harmful algal blooms. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon State University for ...
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2025-01-21
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
ORHB2958Intro
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The Act modifies the earned income tax credit and extends the sunset for the credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Increases the amount of the earned income tax credit. Provides that a credit is available to all adults, including childless adults...
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2025-01-17
To House Revenue Committee
ORHB3190Intro
25%
The Act would make it so that only commercial property may get the tax break for historic property. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property. Makes other structu...
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2025-01-17
To House Revenue Committee
ORHB3191Intro
25%
The Act would appropriate funds to support the arts and culture in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
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2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee
ORHB3094Intro
25%
The Act makes changes to drug treatment funding and oversight. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and ...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Addiction and Community Safety Response Committee
ORHB3140Intro
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The Act says that an operator can make a person who does recreation release the operator from some types of claims. Tells OBDD to study issues for the recreation industry and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Provides that an operator ...
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2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee
ORSB550Intro
25%
Amends the state's new right to repair law. Adds more items to the list of consumer equipment for which an owner or repair provider can get from the item's maker a tool or part needed to fix the item. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Adds electric w...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee
ORHB2552Intro
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The Act creates new laws for workplace violence prevention in health care settings. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities...
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2025-01-17
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee
ORSB300Intro
25%
The Act would alter a definition with respect to laws about private security services. The Act will take effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Modifies the definition of "private security entity" for purposes of private sec...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB547Intro
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Makes the month of April of each year Oregon Native Plant Appreciation Month. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Designates the month of April of each year as Oregon Native Plant Appreciation Month. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee
ORHB3107Intro
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This Act changes the way DEQ can agree to make a regulatory process work better or faster. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedit...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2254Intro
25%
The Act makes laws about unpaid wages for workers who work on construction projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresente...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2676Intro
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The Act makes Oregon join a compact to let dentists and dental hygienists from other states work in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Permits the Oregon Board of Dentistry to dis...
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2025-01-17
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee
ORSB593Intro
25%
The Act would repeal the law that set a state standard for city and county laws that govern the use of public property by the homeless. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3). Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORHB2304Intro
25%
The Act addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act allocates lottery money to the State Fair Council. The Act tells an agency to create a master plan for county fair building. The Act gives money related to the maste...
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2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee
ORSB225Intro
25%
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 received by a person 62 years of age or younger as retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces. The Act applies to tax years that start on or after January 1, 2025. The Act takes effect on the...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs 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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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee
ORHB2991Intro
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The Act gives moneys to an agency to fund help for low-income people with their taxes. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to pro...
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2025-01-17
To House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee
ORSB479Intro
25%
This Act says that DEQ may not find that a sewer is available to a property unless it is less than 200 feet from the property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from determining, for purposes of issui...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee
ORHB2373Intro
25%
The Act creates a license for timeshare sales agents. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Prohibits selling or offering for sale a timeshare without a license. Establishes a timeshare real estate license. Directs the Real Estate Agency and Real Estate ...
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2025-01-17
To House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
ORSB737Intro
25%
This Act gives more neighbors notice of middle housing land divisions and adds content to the notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Expands the radius for giving notices of proposed middle housing land division and requires additional content in ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee
ORSB229Intro
25%
The Act tells OHCS to give funds to Bridge Meadows to grow its multigenerational housing model in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee
ORSB590Intro
25%
The Act tells ODHS to study long term care. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Requires the Department of Human Services to study long term care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related ...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORHB3196Intro
25%
The Act gives money to DOJ to backfill reductions in VOCA grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to backfill reductions in federal Victims of Crime Act grants. Declares an emergency, effective on pa...
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2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee
ORSB599Intro
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This Act bans biases in the rent or sale of property based on immigration status. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits landlords from inquiring about or disclosing immigration status or rejecting an applicant due to immigration status. Prohibi...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORHB2725Intro
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The Act would limit the kind of port district that must be a party to a contract in the strategic investment program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Limits the kind of port districts that are required to be involved in strategic investment program...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee
ORHB3100Intro
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The Act would give lottery funds to Business Oregon to craft a trade strategy for this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Allocates lottery funds to the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a unified trade strategy for Oregon in co...
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2025-01-17
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee
ORSB533Intro
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The Act bans drug makers from taking actions that make it hard for some drug outlets to get certain drugs on behalf of health care providers, deliver the drugs to the providers or dispense the drugs. The Act makes these actions subject to a civil pen...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Health Care Committee
ORSB159Intro
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The Act says that owners of motorcycles and mopeds may also get veterans' plates if the owner qualifies. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue qualifying owners veterans' recognition registration plate...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB586Intro
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This Act reduces the time a landlord must give a tenant to move when selling the rented home to a buyer who will move in. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Reduces from 90 to 45 days the termination notice period that a landlord must give the tenant ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development 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
ORSCR11Intro
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Honors the growth and the goals of NCSL on the 50th anniversary of its founding. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Recognizes and honors the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025.
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2025-01-17
To Senate Rules Committee
ORSB299Intro
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The Act tells ODOT to come up with ideas to reduce traffic on I-5 and I-205 and find a way to pay for the ideas and not use tolls. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic ...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee
ORHB2735Intro
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The Act removes the annual cap on matching funds for IDA holders and creates a cap on total matching funds. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Removes the annual cap on matching funds that an individual development account holder may accrue. Establish...
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2025-01-17
To House Housing and Homelessness Committee
ORSB682Intro
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This Act creates a program to recover the costs of climate change. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program within the Department of Environmental Quality. Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recove...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee
ORSB611Intro
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The Act creates the Food for All Oregonians Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Establishes the Food for All Oregonians Program in the Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to residents of this state who would qualify fo...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORSB93Intro
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The Act makes a new tax subtraction for banks that loan for rural farms, houses or boats. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Creates an Oregon tax subtraction for interest received by financial institutions from loans made for the purchase or improvem...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Revenue Committee
ORHB2956Intro
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The Act tells ODHS to study adult foster homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Department of Human Services to study adult foster homes. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly r...
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2025-01-17
To House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee
ORHB2574Intro
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This Act changes Willamette Falls Locks Authority laws and says that bonds can be issued. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Modifies provisions related to finances, public contracting authority and composition of Willamette Falls Locks Authority. Aut...
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2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation Committee
ORHB2410Intro
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Allows EFSC to approve a power plant demo project that uses one or more small modular reactors. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demons...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORSB301Intro
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The Act tells the State Marine Board to study boat safety. The Act tells the board to make a report on the results of the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorb...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee
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