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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2928
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Oregon Government Ethics Commission)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Removes the ban on offering gifts worth more than $50 in a calendar year to certain
people. (Flesch Readability Score:65.1).
Removes the prohibition on offering gifts in excess of $50 per calendar year to a public official,
candidate, or relative or member of the household of a public official or candidate.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to gift limits; amending ORS 244.025.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 244.025 is amended to read:
244.025. (1) During a calendar year, a public official, a candidate or a relative or member of the
household of the public official or candidate may not solicit or receive, directly or indirectly, any
gift or gifts with an aggregate value in excess of $50 from any single source that could reasonably
be known to have a legislative or administrative interest.
[(2) During a calendar year, a person who has a legislative or administrative interest may not offer
to the public official or a relative or member of the household of the public official any gift or gifts
with an aggregate value in excess of $50.]
[(3) During a calendar year, a person who has a legislative or administrative interest may not offer
to the candidate or a relative or member of the household of the candidate any gift or gifts with an
aggregate value in excess of $50.]
[(4)] (2) This section does not apply to public officials subject to the Oregon Code of Judicial
Conduct.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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