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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB4058 | Passed | The Act adds laws about residential property wholesalers. The Act changes laws about real estate licensees. The Act adds new defined terms. The Act defines "future right to list contract" and states that a real estate licensee may not take certain ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Chapter 3, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| #2 | SB1514 | Passed | The Act would require the Director of OED to conduct periodic assessments of the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund. The Act would allow the director to take actions if the director found the fund to be insolvent. The Act would take effect ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Effective date, March 20, 2024. |
| #3 | HB4117 | Passed | Allows OGEC and OGEC staff to give advice on the public meetings law. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes the Oregon Government Ethics Commission to issue advisory opinions on the application of the public meetings law to actual or hypotheti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Chapter 14, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024. |
| #4 | HB4055 | Failed | Raises the exemption and filing thresholds for the CAT tax. Starts with the tax year 2025. Becomes law 91 days from sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #5 | HB4122 | Passed | The Act tells OSP to join the FBI's Rap Back system for fingerprint criminal records checks. The Act says how agencies can use the Rap Back program. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the Department of State Police to establish a fingerprint r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 Chapter 85, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| #6 | SB1525 | Passed | This Act amends and creates laws related to the State Department of Energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: This Act extends dates for a state agency to submit certain reports. The Act extends dates for the agency and others to develop goa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| #7 | HB4057 | Failed | The Act would make it unlawful for teachers to participate in a strike. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Expands the statutory list of strike-prohibited employees to include teachers employed by a common school district or a union high school distri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #8 | SB1550 | Failed | Moves certain duties, functions and powers of state education from TSPC and EAC to ODE. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Transfers certain duties, functions and powers related to teaching, administrative and personnel licensure from the Teacher Stan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #9 | SB1510 | Passed | The Act allows the agency of the State Fire Marshal to require fingerprints for criminal background checks on certain persons. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Authorizes the Department of the Sta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 Effective date, March 12, 2024. |
| #10 | SB5701 | Passed | The Act makes budget changes for the current biennium. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to specified state agencies for biennial expenses. Modifies certain biennial appropriations made from the General Fund ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18 Effective date, April 17, 2024. |
| #11 | HB5202 | Passed | The Act changes limits on the amounts that agencies may spend for building projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Modifies limits on payment of expenses from specified funds by certain state agencies for capital construction. Declares emergency,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18 Chapter 105, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 17, 2024. |
| #12 | HB4043 | Passed | The Act creates a new crime of interfering with an animal cruelty investigation. The Act makes certain changes to current animal cruelty laws. The Act allows a person who is banned from owning or living with an animal to ask to change the ban. (Flesc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Chapter 30, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| #13 | HB4056 | Passed | The Act would require counties to set up a way to handle surplus proceeds from tax lien foreclosure sales. The Act would pause the transfer to counties of deeds to foreclosed property. The Act would make the Department of Revenue work with county tax... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 Chapter 77, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| #14 | HB4108 | Failed | Requires a health care worker who is present when a child is born alive after an abortion to give the same level of care as if the child was born alive after a normal birth. Makes it a crime if a health care worker knowingly or recklessly does not do... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #15 | SB1575 | Passed | The Act says that public bodies may not have certain terms in some types of construction contracts. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). [Provides that a public body may not include certain provisions relating to payment of defense costs] Limits a publi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18 Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| #16 | HB4090 | Failed | Removes EFSC power over a project that makes clean power or is a power line, is only on U.S. lands and is reviewed under NEPA. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #17 | SB1515 | Passed | Makes changes to laws related to paid and unpaid family and medical leave. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Directs the Employment Department to collaborate with the Bureau of Labor and Industries to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Effective date, March 20, 2024. |
| #18 | HB4149 | Passed | 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. |
| #19 | SB1565 | Failed | The Act requires the DHS to pay parents to provide in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (F... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #20 | SB1539 | Failed | The Act would make grants available for youth sporting events. It takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Directs the [Oregon Tourism Commission] Sport Oregon Foundation to develop[, and coadminister with Sport Oreg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #21 | HB4162 | Failed | The Act provides funds for programs to make college more affordable. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). [Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the purpose of carrying out Oregon's Open Educational Resources (OER) Prog... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #22 | HB4033 | Passed | The Act extends the assessment on nursing homes for six years. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Extends the long term care assessment from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2032. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 Chapter 74, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| #23 | SB1546 | Failed | Makes the State Chief Information Officer contract with a third party for a study of how the state uses information and technology and advise on how to improve. Tells the officer to submit a report by a certain date. The Act takes effect on its passa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #24 | SB1523 | Passed | The Act allows an adult who applies to a state agency to access a sealed original birth record to ask the state agency to add or change the name of a biological parent. Takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Effective date, March 20, 2024. |
| #25 | SB1563 | Failed | The Act requires ODOT to study a section of U.S. Highway 101. ODOT must make a report of the study and share its findings with the JCT. ODOT may start work on the study as soon as the Act is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.5). Requires the Depa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #26 | HB4068 | Failed | Allows a school district to receive more money for special education when costs are high. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Prescribes process for DAS to prepare a budget for funding the State School Fund. Requires budgets of school district... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #27 | SB1511 | Failed | The Act directs the State Fire Marshal to create a grant program to help property owners with wildfire resilience. The Act creates a fund related to the grant program. The Act directs the State Fire Marshal to report on the grant program. The Act dir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #28 | SB1535 | Failed | Allows school districts to use students for work in district. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Authorizes district school boards to establish a policy to encourage students to develop vocational skills by performing maintenance tasks for school dist... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #29 | SCR204 | Passed | Honors the life and memory of Bill Bradbury. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). In memoriam: Bill Bradbury, 1949-2023. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Filed With Secretary of State. |
| #30 | SB1512 | Failed | The Act gives money to the Port of Cascade Locks for the Bridge of the Gods. The money will be used for the bridge's seismic analysis and strengthening project. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 83). Appropriate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #31 | HB4066 | Failed | Requires insurance for cars shared for money and that some information be given to the shared car owner and the shared car driver. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Requires insurance coverage for motor vehicles to be made available as part of a peer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #32 | HB4060 | Failed | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #33 | SB1536 | Failed | The Act says that no one may perform an abortion on a person unless a health care worker finds that the person is less than 15 weeks pregnant, unless the abortion is needed because of an urgent health need, rape or incest. The Act describes when an u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #34 | HB4040 | Passed | The Act would change how applications for broadband grant programs are reviewed. The Act would make the Oregon State Fair and Expo Center eligible for a grant award to make up for COVID losses. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Chapter 29, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| #35 | SB1544 | Failed | The Act would grant a specially assessed property tax value for the homes of people who are at least 65 years old. The Act would sunset after six years, but a home in the program that remained eligible would be able to stay in it past the sunset. (Fl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #36 | HB4065 | Failed | The Act would create a fund for grants to developers of affordable housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Authorizes cities and counties to adopt a program for awarding grants to developers of affordable housing and moderate income housing projec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #37 | HB4028 | Failed | The Act prohibits drug makers from taking actions that make it hard for a drug store to get certain drugs on behalf of certain types of health care providers or deliver the drugs to the providers. The Act also prohibits drug makers from taking action... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #38 | HB4100 | Failed | 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. |
| #39 | HB4012 | Passed | The Act does not allow an insurer to make a health care provider purchase a drug at a certain pharmacy if the provider is giving the drug to a patient in certain settings. The Act also applies to other types of entities that pay for health care. (Fle... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Chapter 24, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| #40 | HB4005 | Failed | The Act makes changes to state law to clarify the meaning of an individual's performance of services. The Act takes effect 91 days after session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Clarifies when an employee is employed by employing unit or emplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #41 | SCR202 | Passed | Fixes firm dates for measures during session. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Establishes deadlines for completion of legislative measures for the 2024 regular session of the Eighty-Second Legislative Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Filed With Secretary of State. |
| #42 | SB1518 | Failed | The Act forbids DHS from denying public aid to COFA citizens because they are not U.S. citizens. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Prohibits the Department of Human Services from denying public assistance, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #43 | HB4054 | Failed | The Act tells certain entities to designate sports by gender. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.35). Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #44 | HB4022 | Failed | The Act requires the OHA to study drug use in this state and to send a report on its findings to the legislature. The Act is repealed on January 2, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study Oregon's addicti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #45 | SB1566 | Passed | Allows a county to charge a permit fee to build, move or change a line, fixture or facility that is in the right of way of a county public road. There are exceptions. Sunsets on January 2, 2031. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.5). [Digest: Allows a cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| #46 | HB4042 | Failed | The Act would promote the use of industrial lands. The Act would let firms develop semiconductors in an e-commerce city in order to get an enterprise zone tax break. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Departm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #47 | SJR201 | Failed | The Act would simplify how exempt property is taxed. It takes effect only if the people vote for it next November. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to exclude partial exemptions of the assessed value ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #48 | SB1524 | Failed | Creates a new way for legislative leaders to recognize unsung heroes for their efforts to make things better in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Establishes the Unsung Legislative Heroes Recognition Program. Sets forth legislative findin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #49 | SB1540 | Failed | Requires PRAC to study public records fees and submit findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Public Records Advisory Council to study fees charged for public records requests. Directs the council to submit findings to the interim co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment. |
| #50 | HB4148 | Failed | 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. |
