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.
HB 3685 requires local governments to include specific, clear information in ballot titles for tax measures. It mandates bold warnings stating if a new tax could increase property taxes over 3% or if a measure renews current taxes. The bill also requires detailed disclosures about the tax rate, duration, and estimated dollar impacts on median and higher property values for the first year. These changes apply to all counties, cities, and other local areas holding elections on local option taxes or rate limitations, ensuring voters see concrete financial details before voting.
Establishes review criteria for telecommunications towers to be applied by counties. Requires existing telecommunications towers to comply with criteria by January 1, 2032.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020). Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Authorizes the Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land. Establishes the Industrial Site Loan Fund in the State Treasury.
HB 2934 amends Oregon's Justice Reinvestment Program by changing the membership structure of the Justice Reinvestment Grant Review Committee from seven to ten voting members. It adds two community-based organization representatives focused on underserved racial/ethnic communities and two members with lived experience in the criminal justice system. The bill also clarifies the committee's role in reviewing grant applications and requires counties to demonstrate historical reductions in prison use for specific felony offenses to qualify for full funding. This procedural update affects counties applying for grants to fund community-based alternatives to incarceration, without altering the program's core goal of reducing prison populations and improving equity.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Prohibits a person from using dogs to hunt or pursue lynx or bobcats. Provides that a violation is subject to a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, and suspension of the privilege to apply for a hunting license.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Requires that a building permit must show a contractor's Construction Contractors Board license number if the contractor is known. Requires an inspector performing building code inspection as part of a building inspection program, or for the purpose of enforcing a municipal ordinance, to require that persons engaged in regulated building activity present evidence of compliance with applicable licensing, registration or certification requirements. Requires that a municipality ensure that a person issued a permit for work requiring a Construction Contractors Board license holds a Construction Contractors Board license. Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to inform the Construction Contractors Board when the director has reason to believe that a person is engaging, has engaged or plans to engage in a violation of laws regarding licensing and endorsement of construction contractors.
Directs the Oregon Public Defense Commission to study law changes needed to implement Senate Bill 337 (2023). Requires the commission to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than May 1, 2026. Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Provides that a person may not bring a civil action against an individual who, without malice, makes a communication regarding an incident of sexual assault, sexual harassment or sex discrimination if, at the time of making the communication, the individual has a reasonable belief that sexual assault, sexual harassment or sex discrimination occurred. Allows the prevailing defendant to recover attorney fees and provides for imposition of remedial sanctions against the plaintiff.
