Rep. Willy Chotzen

Maddy summarySB 450 designates November 14 of each year as "Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day" in Oregon, honoring Ruby Bridges' 1960 integration of a previously all-white school. The bill has no policy requirements or direct impact on specific groups - it simply establishes an annual observance for schools and communities to reflect on racial justice. It declares an emergency for immediate effect upon passage (effective June 20, 2025), though this is procedural for commemorative legislation. The designation aligns with nationwide efforts like Salem-Keizer's Safe Routes to School program, which uses the day for anti-racism education. No substantive changes to law or funding are involved.

Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within [ 90 ] 120 days of submission. [ Defines "urban housing application." Requires urban housing applications to be reviewed as limited land use decisions. Authorizes award of attorney fees to applicant if engineering plans or land use applications for residential development are not processed timely. ] Establishes a limited review process for certain applications for residential development within an urban growth boundary. Becomes operative on July 1, 2026. Prohibits local governments from applying certain design review requirements for certain [ urban housing applications ] residential developments within an urban growth boundary . Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.

] [ Requires a public utility to obtain authorization from the Public Utility Commission to develop or carry out a project that involves the production or use of hydrogen in this state. Provides criteria that the commission shall use to evaluate a proposed project. ] Requires a natural gas utility to provide notice to each customer of the utility and the Public Utility Commission if the utility plans to increase the amount of hydrogen that the utility blends with natural gas and the ratio of the volume of hydrogen to the volume of natural gas will, for the first time, be greater than 2.5 percent. Requires a natural gas utility that has a program for blending hydrogen with natural gas to maintain on the utility's website information regarding the utility's program and how a customer may communicate with the utility about the utility's program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum. Prescribes requirements for the removal of library materials, textbooks and instructional materials. Directs the Department of Education to provide technical assistance for school library programs. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

] [ Prohibits a transient lodging provider and a transient lodging intermediary from making, storing, transmitting or transferring an audio or video recording of an occupant of transient lodging in any space within the transient lodging in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishes violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. ] Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer. Exempts from the sales prohibition the content of communications or personal data that is generated by or connected to certain systems or equipment that utilities use.

Adds electric wheelchairs and complex rehabilitation technology to the type of consumer equipment for which an original equipment manufacturer must make available to an owner or independent repair provider a tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating consumer equipment.

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 wages. Specifies that the joint and several liability provisions for unpaid wages do not apply to construction work relating to real property that is used as the owner's principal residence or real property with five or fewer residential or commercial units on a single tract. Clarifies that the Attorney General may accept the assignment of claims and bring civil actions in the name of the State of Oregon on such claims. Permits the Attorney General to adopt rules regarding the assignment of claims. Requires notice to be sent by certified mail that informs the owner and the direct contractor of the alleged violation and specifies the time period within which the owner and the direct contractor may correct the alleged violation. Creates a rebuttable presumption that, in any action for unpaid wages, the person performing labor on a construction project is an employee. Provides that the party claiming otherwise may rebut the presumption by establishing that the person qualifies as an independent contractor. Provides that an owner may bring an action against a direct contractor to recover damages for amounts paid by the owner. Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Provides that subcontractors shall provide certain payroll records to an authorized third party representative in certain circumstances. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances. Clarifies that the owner or direct contractor may withhold payment in an amount and to the extent that the owner or direct contractor paid, on behalf of the subcontractor, wages owed to the subcontractor's employees.

Prohibits a person that offers or sells goods or services online [ to a resident of this state ] from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the goods or services that does not include all fees or charges that a purchaser must pay to complete a transaction for the goods or services, other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction , [ or ] reasonable charges that the person actually incurs to ship the goods or provide the services or a service fee that is calculated according to distance or a purchaser's selections . Specifies exemptions. Punishes a violation of the Act as a unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. [ Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. ].