| OR | SB1561 | Pass | This Act creates a council and funds to distribute and invest money from a legal settlement. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council. Directs the council to establish programs to distribute moneys from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Effective date, April 4, 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 | HB4149 | Pass | The Act requires PBMs to be licensed and changes the definition of a PBM. The Act changes the way PBMs can audit drug stores. The Act requires PBMs to report certain information each year to DCBS. The Act makes changes to the way 340B drugs are cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Chapter 87, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 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 | 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 | 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 | HB4136 | Pass | The Act changes the laws about when a nurse has to have a license and gives money to Lane County to pay for same-day health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.0). [Digest: The Act changes the laws about nurse licenses, gives money to Lane County to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 39, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| OR | HB4001 | Pass | The Act creates the Task Force on Specialty Courts and tells the task force to report to the legislature by November 15, 2024. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [Digest: The Act creates the Task Force ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 23, (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 | HB4132 | Pass | The Act makes ODFW, SFWC and DSL amend their marine reserve programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Department of State Lands to implement the Ocea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 38, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| OR | SB1553 | Pass | The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | HB4145 | Pass | The Act creates new crimes concerning visual displays of animal abuse. The Act creates exceptions to the new crimes. The Act amends related animal cruelty laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Criminalizes the creation of a visual recording of aggr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 41, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| 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 | HB4119 | Pass | The Act adds protections for payments related to student athletes. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Enhances the protections for post-secondary institutions of education,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 15, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024. |
| OR | SB1567 | Pass | The Act tells an agency to take actions on water in the Walla Walla River Basin. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to the Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| OR | SCR209 | Pass | Honors the life and memory of Joanne Russell Verger. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). In memoriam: Joanne Russell Verger, 1930-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Filed With Secretary of State. |
| OR | SCR205 | Pass | Honors the life and memory of Dick Springer. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). In memoriam: Dick Springer, 1948-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Filed With Secretary of State. |
| 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 | SB1573 | Fail | The Act affects the duty of some contractors with respect to some workers' unpaid wages. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Makes contractor jointly and severally liable in civil or administrative action for unpaid wages of unrepresented employee of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1559 | Fail | This Act changes the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. The Act changes the term "global warming" to "climate change" in some laws. The Act declares an emergency and takes effect when it passes. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.4). Modifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4100 | Fail | Bans the recoupment of certain costs if the costs are from the fault of a utility. Makes an electric company make a report on any fire event that is caused by a power line. Allows the report to be used as evidence. Specifies the economic damages allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | SB1593 | Fail | The Act would impose a new tax on the gross proceeds from the sale of unprocessed timber cut on private land larger than 500 acres held in common ownership. The Act would provide funding to counties and to protect homes, neighborhoods and water suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
| OR | HB4148 | Fail | The Act directs an agency to expand programs related to wildlife illness. The Act directs an agency to perform a review. The Act directs an agency to establish a program for living with wildlife. The Act makes changes related to wildlife paths and ro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment. |
