Oregon Representative Ricki Ruiz [D]

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ORHB3185Intro
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The Act changes the program for hiring certain students by nonprofits. The Act gives priority to certain types of courses. The Act increases the payback amount to the nonprofits. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs i...
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2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3182Intro
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Tells the HECC to give money to fund basic needs for higher learning students. Creates a task force on student housing to study student housing needs. Directs the HECC to provide grants to certain organizations that help low-income college students w...
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2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORSB718Intro
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The Act would create the Parkinson's disease registry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Establishes the Parkinson's disease registry. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Health Care Committee
ORHB2669Intro
25%
The Act tells community colleges how to decide the rate at which part-time faculty will be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires community colleges to pay part-time faculty at the same rate, on a per-hour basis, as the community college pa...
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2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORSB426Intro
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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2025-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORHB2958Intro
25%
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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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Revenue 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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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
ORSB741Intro
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The Act tells DHS to adopt a compensation rate structure for foster parents. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt a rate structure for foster parent compensation. Takes effect on the 91st day following a...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:00 am]
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORSB723Intro
25%
The Act requires trains to have a crew of at least two unless a federal exception exists. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Requires that trains have a minimum of two crew members. Provides exceptions. Imposes civil penalties for violation. Makes vio...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORHB3213Intro
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The Act applies public records laws to higher learning bodies. The Act tells higher learning bodies to post certain annual reports. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires t...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORSB875Intro
25%
The Act makes changes to the Oregon Foster Child Bill of Rights and the Oregon Foster Child Sibling Bill of Rights. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Modifies the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights and the Oregon Foster Children's Sibling Bill o...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:00 am]
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORHB2974Intro
25%
The Act changes the meaning of a term and enhances a sentence for some crimes involving children. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Modifies the meaning of "sexually explicit conduct" for certain c...
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2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
ORHB3650Intro
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The Act creates the Latino Health System Task Force. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force. Prescribes the task force's membership and duties. Directs the task force to report to the Legislative Assembly no...
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2025-02-21
To House Behavioral Health and Health Care 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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2025-02-20
To House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee
ORHB2686Intro
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The Act gives funding to HECC for a program to re-enroll people into certain programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing a grant to an organization that manage...
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2025-02-20
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2452Intro
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The Act tells DELC to create a program to give grants to child care entities to help parents or guardians of children access child care. The Act gives money to DELC for grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.0). Directs the Department of Early ...
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2025-02-20
To House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee
ORHB2997Intro
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The Act requires HECC to create a grant program for college access and success. The Act sets the criteria for a grant to be given. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.0). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a grant program fo...
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2025-02-20
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3568Intro
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Provides money to promote seafood products in the public schools of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association for the purpose of promotin...
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2025-02-20
To House Education Committee
ORHB2698Intro
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This Act establishes a goal for home owning in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to track goal progress as part of the Oregon Housing N...
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2025-02-19
To House Housing and Homelessness 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
ORHB2555Intro
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The Act makes changes to a pilot program for family sentencing in court. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Changes the name of the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program to the Family Sentencing Alternative Program. Makes the program permanent. ...
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2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
ORSB465Intro
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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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2025-02-18
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORHB3131Intro
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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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2025-02-13
To Joint Ways and Means Committee
ORSB720Intro
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The Act provides money to DAS to distribute to POIC to construct a workforce center. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Portland Opportunities Industrializ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education 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
ORHB3377Intro
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The Act says the state may issue lottery bonds to help pay for a public market in Portland. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Authorizes lottery bonds for construction of the James Beard Public Market in Portland. Declares an emergency, effective Jul...
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2025-02-12
To House Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade Committee
ORSB481Intro
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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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2025-02-06
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB747Intro
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The Act tells certain persons to report the use of fertilizer on farmland. The Act allows agencies to take certain actions about the reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigat...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee
ORSB725Intro
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The Act tells ODHS to adopt staffing rules for certain case managers. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt by rule a minimum staffing ratio of 30 to 1 for service coordinators and personal agents serving...
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2025-01-30
To Joint Human Services Committee
ORSB699Intro
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This Act tells health insurance to cover devices for more patients. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Expands the health insurance coverage of prosthetic and orthotic devices. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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2025-01-30
To Senate Health Care Committee
ORHB3443Intro
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The Act says that each gun possessed by a felon constitutes a separate offense. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Provides that each firearm possessed by a person committing the crime of felon in possession of a firearm constitutes a separately punis...
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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
ORSB738Intro
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The Act makes changes to the requirements for foster children to get a tuition waiver. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee
ORSB703Intro
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Directs DHS to give grants to service providers to help people who are noncitizens change their immigration status. The Act goes into effect on its passage. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Directs the Department of Human Services to provide grants ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB724Intro
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The Act tells the DOC to study the Corrections Ombudsman. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires the Department of Corrections to study the Corrections Ombudsman. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislat...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB722Intro
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This Act bans software rent and occupancy control and applies rent caps to younger rentals. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits residential landlords from using certain software to set rents or occupancy rates. Establishes statutory damages a...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Housing and Development Committee
ORSB734Intro
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The Act does not allow the use of some kinds of restraints on a youth, adjudicated youth or young person in some kinds of facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Prohibits the use of certain mechanical restraints on youth, adjudicated youth or ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB706Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORSB696Intro
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The Act creates two new crimes concerning rapid fire activators. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.5). Creates the crime of unlawful transport, manufacture or transfer of a rapid fire activator. Punishes b...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORHB3015Intro
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Bans certain items from being added to food and beverages sold in schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Prohibits certain food and beverage items sold to students in public schools from including Red Number 3, potassium bromate or propylparaben....
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2025-01-17
To House Education Committee
ORHB3206Intro
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Tells ODE to take actions about how school districts record and respond to student absences. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Department of Education to review, make recommendations and develop procedures related to the recording of stud...
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2025-01-17
To House Education Committee
ORSB758Intro
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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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2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORHB2254Intro
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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
ORHB2598Intro
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The Act makes clear that a light rail car or monorail are not commercial motor vehicles. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Clarifies that a rail fixed guideway system is not a commercial motor vehicle for the purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code.
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2025-01-17
To Joint Transportation 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
ORHB3204Intro
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Makes public data that are collected each quarter about students going to school. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the quarterly collection and compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.
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2025-01-17
To House Education 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
ORSB750Intro
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The Act tells DAS to make a pilot project to pay employees of OSP biweekly and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a pilot project to pay employees of the Department o...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ORSB760Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Business Committee
ORHB2687Intro
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The Act changes the requirements to qualify for a certain grant program. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Removes a provision that excluded certain temporary agricultural workers from grant eligibility. T...
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2025-01-17
To House Labor and Workplace Standards 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
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