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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5015
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Oregon Department of
AdministrativeServices)
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: The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Bureau of Labor and Industries for biennial
expenses.
Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Re-
ceipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the bureau.
Limits biennial expenditures by the bureau from the Wage Security Fund.
Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures.
Limits biennial expenditures by the bureau from federal funds.
Limits biennial expenditures by the bureau from certain lottery moneys.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Bureau of Labor and Industries; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There is appropriated to the Bureau of Labor and Industries, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $35,558,264.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$34,767,848 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts,
but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Bureau of Labor
andIndustries.
SECTION 3. (1) Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$9,669,335 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of administrative expenses by the Bureau of Labor and Industries from the Wage
Security Fund.
(2) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Bureau of Labor and
Industries for wage claim payments from the Wage Security Fund are not limited.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$2,323,667 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from federal funds collected or received by the Bureau of Labor and
Industries.
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $307,006
is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for payment of
expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Veterans’ Services Fund established under
ORS 406.140 to the Bureau of Labor and Industries for the purpose of implementing the
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
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.
LC 9015 HB5015
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provisions of ORS 660.220.
SECTION 6. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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