Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 17)
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2241
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make the Employment Department study unemployment insurance in this state and file a report of the study with the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Employment Department to study unemployment insurance in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2242
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2243
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OED to study issues related to paid family and medical leave. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medical leave insurance program. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2244
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells DCBS to study issues relating to workplace safety. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workplace safety. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2245
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tells a state agency to study how the state watches firms that do construction. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Construction Contractors Board to study construction contractors. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to construction contractors not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2246
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make the Employment Department study how UI law is carried out in this state and file a report of the study with the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires the Employment Department to study the implementation of unemployment insurance law in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2247
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2248
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Report Pass
4/22/25
Enrolled
4/29/25
Passed
5/7/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
The Act makes new laws with respect to BOLI. The Act takes effect 91 days after adjournment sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.4). [Digest: The Act tells BOLI to study matters related to the laws that BOLI enforces. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5).] [Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study matters relating to laws over which the bureau has enforcement authority. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Establishes the Employer Assistance Division within the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Provides that discussion communications made in the course of or in connection with a discussion between an employer and the Employer Assistance Division are confidential. Provides exceptions to the confidentiality requirement. Prohibits the bureau from imposing a penalty on an employer that proves the employer's reliance on discussion communications in taking any good faith action. Permits the bureau to issue advisory opinions in certain circumstances. Permits the bureau to enter into interagency agreements with state agencies to receive certain business information. Permits the bureau to enter into a settlement with respect to any violation of a provision of law over which the bureau has jurisdiction. Provides that the bureau may settle a matter through conference, mediation, conciliation, persuasion or other alternative dispute resolution processes. Establishes confidentiality requirements for communications made during the course of or in connection with settlement discussions held through the bureau's alternative dispute resolution processes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2249
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
The Act makes a task force about health care on-the-job training and career pathways. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). [Digest: The Act makes BOLI study and report on matters relating to on-the-job training programs in this state. Tells BOLI to submit a report by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0).] [Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct a study of matters relating to apprenticeship programs in this state. Directs the bureau to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026.] Establishes the Task Force on Health Care Apprenticeships and Career Pathways. Requires the task force to identify challenges in navigating the requirements for licensure, accreditation and apprenticeships for health care providers. Requires the task force to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2250
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would have the state use the last known address of adults in custody, if available, to create some voting districts. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center. Directs the center to adjust the population data reported in the federal decennial census to reflect the residence status of adults in custody before incarceration. Requires the Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, to reapportion the state into legislative districts based on the adjusted population data. Requires use of the adjusted population data to apportion county or municipal boundaries.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2251
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/10/25
Engrossed
4/16/25
Refer
4/21/25
Requires school districts to have a policy that does not allow students to use cell phones and similar devices. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2252
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer. Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2253
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This act makes it a condition of licensing that PBMs need to act in a patient's best interest and tells DCBS to make rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires pharmacy benefit managers to act as fiduciaries to enrollees when negotiating drug prices and tells the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules explaining the fiduciary duty requirements and to establish a complaint process for reporting breaches of fiduciary duty.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2254
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
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 unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier. Provides the statute of limitations for actions regarding recovery for unpaid and overtime wages. Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2255
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule. Directs courts to exercise doubt in favor of an interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty.