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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1119
Sponsored by Senator TAYLOR
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 stops employers from doing certain things at work with respect to immigration.
(Flesch Readability Score:65.7).
Prohibits employers from engaging in unfair immigration-related practices.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to immigration-related employment activities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 659A.
SECTION 2.(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Federal immigration authority” has the meaning given that term in ORS 180.805.
(b) “Unfair immigration-related practices” includes:
(A) Threatening to contact a federal immigration authority because the employee has
exercised a right otherwise provided by law.
(B) Retaliating against an employee because the employee has updated the employee’s
employment information due to a change in the employee’s immigration status.
(2) It is an unlawful practice for an employer to engage in unfair immigration-related
practices.
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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