| HB4138 | Pass | The Act says the OLCC can let a person work before they get a real permit, makes some people apply for permits and lets the OLCC charge a new fee. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Allows the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to issue [provisiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 40, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| SB1502 | Pass | Requires most public schools and college boards to video record their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private or if a school district is very small. (Flesch Readab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| SB1566 | Pass | 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. |
| HB4016 | Pass | The Act makes certain changes to a program for planned fires. The Act directs an agency to extend the deadline for a grant program for protecting homes from fire. The Act directs agencies to report on creating a program for protecting homes from fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 26, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| HB4015 | Pass | Permits a person who wants to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) to choose to use EFSC for the siting of the BESS. Permits the ruling body of a local body after talking with the person who wants to build a BESS to choose to use EFSC for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 25, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| SB1541 | Pass | The Act adds new circuit court judges. Two of the judges start on July 1, 2024, and one judge starts on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Creates new circuit court judge positions in certain judicial districts. Takes effect July 1, 2024...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, July 1, 2024. |
| HB4147 | Pass | Authorizes the use of stop arm cameras on school buses to record people who do not stop for bus safety lights. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 43, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| SB1527 | Pass | Changes accounts for first-time home buyers, for accounts starting in 2025. Requires taxpayer to keep records. Changes rules for banks. Becomes law 91 days from sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Modifies provisions governing first-time home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| HB4031 | Pass | Makes local governments keep some tax data and records secret in the same way DOR keeps records or data secret. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). [Digest: Requires PRAC to study public records and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).] [...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 28, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| SB1571 | Pass | The Act would require a disclosure of the use of AI or other similar technology in campaign ads. The Act would create a way to enforce the requirement and to impose a fine for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a disclosure of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| SB1579 | Pass | The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| HB4164 | Pass | The Act makes changes to a survey on sexual misconduct at colleges. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). [Removes the condition on reimbursement for expenses for nonlegislative members of the Sexual Misconduct Survey Council. Permits the council to dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 46, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| 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. |
| SB1533 | Pass | Tells the SOS to translate the voters' pamphlet into the 10 most common languages used in each county. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Increases, from 5 to 10, the number of the most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025. |
| SB1568 | Pass | Makes pay for electricians equal to the pay in a union contract in parts of the state where there is a union contract and the union is the only one that speaks for electricians. Takes effect 91 days after session ends (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| 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. |
| SB1558 | Pass | Does not apply the shortened school day law to certain class periods or types of instruction. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Makes an exception to abbreviated school day requirements for when a student voluntarily does not schedule a class for one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| SB1576 | Pass | The Act changes the law about when the AG can share some materials about consumer data. The Act makes some court records of when a minor settles a claim secret. The Act changes the law making some owners immune from liability when they allow recreati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| 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. |
| SB1509 | Pass | The Act stops the lottery for Columbia River gillnet fishing permits. The Act directs an agency to start a work group to make suggestions on creating a program for buying the permits from willing sellers. The Act directs the agency to report on the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| HB4160 | Pass | Makes change for how long a person is considered a student for an act to be sexual conduct. Changes law on July 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 45, (2024 Laws): Effective date July 1, 2024. |
| SB1526 | Pass | The Act makes changes to certain Oregon tax laws. It takes effect on the 91st day after session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.9). Makes technical, policy and administrative changes to certain Oregon tax laws. Takes effect on the 91st day follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| SB1531 | Pass | The Act would create a body to plan for America's 250th birthday. The Act would require the views of Indian tribes to feature in the birthday planning and activities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). [Digest: The Act would create a body to plan for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| SB1587 | Pass | The Act protects a children's advocacy center from legal action for looking into the abuse of a child if a nationwide group says that the center meets certain standards. The Act protects the center's employees, too. The Act does not protect a center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| 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. |
| HB4020 | Pass | The Act makes all people who apply to be a notary public take a course before taking the required test. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires an applicant for a commission as a notary public to complete a course of study offered by the Secretary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 27, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| SB1520 | Pass | Exempts awards from and legal fees paid in wildfire suits from income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Digest: Exempts award from wildfire suit from income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).] Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| HB4084 | Pass | Creates a program for the education of students who are foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children. Sunsets the plan June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 33, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| SB1574 | Pass | The Act defines abuse of a corpse in the first degree in some circumstances as a sex crime. The Act allows DOT to share data with humane special agents. The Act also changes some definitions for police oversight laws and exempts some hearings from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| 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. |
| HB4081 | Pass | The Act makes a program and an advisory board in the Oregon Health Authority to make it easier to get fast health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Establishes the Emergency Medical Services Program and Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 32, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| HB4086 | Pass | The Act directs DHS to have a study done by someone else about how reports of child abuse are looked into in this state. The Act directs DHS to have a study done by someone else about children who have shown problem sexual behaviors. The Act requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 34, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| HB4129 | Pass | The Act requires OHA and DHS to contract with no more than two agencies to provide agency with choice services. The Act defines the services that must be provided and the rights of individuals who receive the services. The Act requires the OHA and DH...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 37, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| SB1525 | Pass | 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. |
| HB4113 | Pass | The Act applies to insurers and other entities that pay for drugs for people who have insurance. The Act requires insurers and others to count toward any costs that an insured person must pay for their drugs, the amounts paid from coupons or by other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 35, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| SB1538 | Pass | The Act makes many changes to election laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Permits an agent of a candidate to file a translation of a candidate statement with the Secretary of State. Permits candidate statements, certain arguments regarding measu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| HB4146 | Pass | The Act allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. The Act also changes an element of a crime related to violating privacy. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Reada...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 42, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| HB4153 | Pass | Creates a task force to look for and find words and meanings related to artificial intelligence that may be used in laws. Makes task force report its findings on or before December 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Establishes the Task Force...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Chapter 44, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024. |
| HB4040 | Pass | 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. |
| HB4024 | Pass | The Act creates campaign giving and spending limits and new disclosure laws on campaign giving and spending. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study money in voting. (Flesch Readability Score 61.3).] [Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 9, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| SB1515 | Pass | 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. |
| 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. |
| HB4026 | Pass | The Act states how certain UGB changes are to be reviewed. (Flesch Readability Score: 87.9). [Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study voting. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2).] [Requires the Secretary of State to study how to improve voter acce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 10, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024. |
| SB1514 | Pass | 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. |
| HB4019 | Pass | The Act sets the date, time and processes for the meeting of electors of the President and Vice President of the United States. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Provides for the date and time of the convening of electors of the President and Vice Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 8, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024. |
| HB4121 | Pass | The Act makes new laws about marijuana and hemp and changes some laws about marijuana and hemp. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, in consultation with the State Department of Agriculture, to create a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Chapter 16, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024. |
