Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials. Directs the division to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly with findings.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study telecommunications. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Allows the Oregon Board of Psychology to disclose specified information to the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission. Exempts individuals authorized under the Compact from the requirement to obtain a license from the board. Allows the board to use moneys to meet financial obligations imposed on the State of Oregon as a result of participation in the Compact. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study food and beverage production. Directs the department to report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to collect a series of data related to the underwriting practices and criteria involved in issuing motor vehicle liability insurance policies in this state. Specifies the required contents and focus of the data collection effort. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
HB 3270 expands the membership of Oregon's Emergency Board by increasing House of Representatives members from eight to fourteen, while keeping Senate membership at seven. The bill changes the board's composition to include more House members with prior experience on the Ways and Means Committees, but does not alter the board's emergency powers. The Emergency Board retains its existing authority to allocate funds, revise budgets, and authorize expenditures during emergencies without legislative approval. This structural change becomes effective after the 2027 legislative session concludes. The bill directly affects how the Emergency Board is constituted but not the policy decisions it makes.
Provides that the governing body of a county shall be a nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by the people of the county unless county voters choose not to do so. Requires a county to provide by ordinance or resolution for the structure of the board, the board districts, if any, the election procedures and compensation for the commissioners if the county voters have not chosen to exempt the county from the provisions. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.
Prohibits a local government, local contracting agency or local contract review board from enacting, adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule or other law that prohibits, restricts or limits the evaluation, comparison or use of pipe or piping materials for a water project if the pipe or piping materials meet current standards or performance specifications of specified organizations and if moneys appropriated from the State Treasury directly or indirectly provided funding for the water project. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires the Secretary of State to verify information provided to the secretary by the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority regarding voter registration. Prohibits the secretary from providing voter registration information the secretary receives from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to a county clerk until and unless the secretary verifies that the voter is a United States citizen.
Creates an income tax credit for the unreimbursed expenses of certain public school teachers and adjunct instructors. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets. Prohibits, before July 1, 2026, the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring that a recycling processing facility take certain actions with respect to responsible end markets. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Adds additional purposes for which moneys in the Seismic Risk Mitigation Fund may be expended. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
