Rep. Paul Evans

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.

Maddy summaryHB 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 nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including a receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post a copy of the corporation's proposed annual budget to the corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with an audit. Subjects members of a corporation's board of directors and officers and employees of a corporation to government ethics standards. Applies the provisions of the Act to corporations over a 15-year period, with required compliance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the corporation that comes from public funds. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Creates a credit against personal income tax for the cost of a criminal history record check required by state law for a transfer of a firearm. Creates a subtraction from taxable income for mileage for travel associated with a criminal history record check. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2032. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the Office of Student Access and Completion to administer the program. Requires the State Workforce and Talent Development Board to monitor the program every two years and make recommendations to the Legislative Assembly on whether modifications are necessary to enhance the state's workforce. Establishes that the program becomes operative on January 1, 2045. Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program Implementation Fund. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, on the effective date of the Act, to begin the process of developing the policy and rules necessary to implement the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the commission to submit a report regarding the progress on the development of policy and rules to committees related to public finance and higher education during the 2026 and 2027 regular sessions of the Legislative Assembly. Establishes the Task Force on Implementing the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the task force to determine the amount of moneys the program will need to raise through bonding, determine which current grant and scholarship programs should be repealed on the operative date of the Guaranteed Opportunity Program and analyze the methods for preventing bad faith participation of participants in the program. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Amends the Oregon Constitution to require an initiative petition to be accompanied by a signed form providing for the means by which an increase in state or county expenditures of greater than $50,000 must be paid. Provides that an initiative petition may not be placed on the ballot unless the Secretary of State makes a finding of sufficiency of the means. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Establishes Central Oregon University as a separate public university, distinct from Oregon State University. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt amendments to the state building code that mandate certain design features for new school facilities in a designated seismic hazard region. Specifies the design features. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.