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The purpose for this communication is to inform you about important legislation that is being heard for you to provide testimony and share with your communities and the state of Oregon.
It's easy to provide testimony. You are encouraged to take 5 minutes out of your busy schedules to make a difference and let your voice be heard with written testimony. Verbal Testimonies are also encouraged and there are tabs in the navigation when reading a bill to sign up to verbally testify! Legislators need to hear your voices and encouragement to stand up for Oregon!
Please share with your friends, family, and communities. Oregon is worth fighting for and Oregon needs to hear you! Join us in the Fight for Oregon!
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Fight for Oregon
Listed below are Bills of Concern and Bills to Support that are coming up for Public Hearings this and next week and/or need your voice. We would like to give thanks to Senator David Brock Smith, Representative Virgle Osborne, Oregon Cattleman's Assoc, Oregon Citizens Lobby and more for providing the majority of the content of this Alert!
Your testimonies are greatly needed in the fight for Oregon! Our goal is to make it easy for you to testify and share! Anyone can subscribe or unsubscribe to these alerts! Encourage folks to subscribe!
Nervous about testifying? Don't be. It is actually your raw emotion and words that let our legislators truly know how a bill is affecting or may affect you that causes change. Here is a link to learn about testifying and the options you have to testify on <> (Oregon Legislative Information System)
IMPORTANT NOTE: You have up to 48 hours after a Public Hearing to submit written testimony!
This of course does not incapsulate all the bills for the coming week. Bills could also be added to committee agendas at any time and after the work to put this list together. Visit FightforOregon.com Weekly Alerts for a more updated version of this week's bills!
Because we are committed to not inundate your email box AND because Bills are a moving target and change daily, please visit the site for an updated list so you don't miss any bills: FightforOregon.com Weekly Alerts!
IMPORTANT: Bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing, check the schedule here:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
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Note: Registration ends 30 minutes prior to the start of the meeting. After that time, the registration system will close.
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Special Message from the Minority Leader:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
I want to remind you that your voice is a vital part of the process. The decisions made in Salem this year will impact families and communities across Oregon, and your engagement can help shape the direction we take. Whether it's testifying on a bill, contacting your elected officials, or following the latest updates, there are many ways to get involved and ensure your perspective is heard. Together, we can work toward a safer, more affordable, and prosperous Oregon.
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We WILL be re-starting our Teams Meeting on Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM featuring Representative Virgle Osborne as well as our other Representatives & Senators as they are available to discuss upcoming legislation for the week ahead and answer questions during session! Please join us next Sunday (May 4, 2025)!
Recurring Meeting Link: <Click Here>
Legislative Bills Work Day:
- Date: Tuesday, April 29
- Time: Starts at 12:30 PM
- Location: Republican HQ 827 SE Cass, Roseburg
We’re looking forward to seeing you there and appreciate your continued support. Bring a sack lunch and join us in submitting testimonies as you learn how to participate with us.
Rep. Virgle Osborne is launching a podcast! This new initiative will ultimately replace our Sunday Legislative Talks in the future. However, we’ll be sending more details about the podcast soon, so stay tuned for updates.
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Special Message from Oregon Citizens Lobby:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
The Act allows for in-state higher learning costs for students who are seeking asylum in the U.S.
Permits an asylum seeker who is a student at a public university in this state or Oregon Health and Science University to receive an exemption from nonresident tuition and fees. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. [Highlighted text was added in amendment]
People seeking asylum are supposed to be seeking it prior to entering the US. If they did not, they are here illegally.
To say this has no fiscal impact is false. Taxes supplement universities. Taxes imposed on Oregonians should go to benefit Oregonians. Noncitizens are receiving more benefits than citizens so Oregon doesn’t need to give them a break on tuition.
SUBMIT TESTIMONY BEFORE 4/30 at 8am
EMAIL COMMITTEE
Sen.LewFrederick@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.SuzanneWeber@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.SaraGelser@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.NoahRobinson@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.JaneenSollman@OregonLegislature.gov
--Oregon Citizen's Lobby
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House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 8:00 am
SB 74 A - Digest: This Act makes changes to how DSL can find the state's interest in waterways that are navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
[Digest: This Act tells the DSL to study how to determine that a waterway is navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).]
[Requires the Department of State Lands to study determinations of navigability on Oregon waterways. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.]
[Sunsets on January 2, 2027.]
Authorizes the Department of State Lands to find in a navigability determination draft report that the state's interest in the waterway extends to the current submerged and submersible lands within the waterway. Authorizes the department to negotiate with property owners affected by the finding and convey mineral and geothermal resource rights in a negotiated exchange of deeds. Requires the department to determine the state's interest in portions of the waterway according to principles of accretion and avulsion if the department is unable to reach an agreement with affected property owners.
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Farm Bureau Opposes!
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Special Message from Oregon Citizen:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
This excerpt from this bill alone should make every landowner vote every legislator proposing such an extreme takeover of property OUT OF OFFICE! This is an extreme overreach of government.
"At any point after the beginning of the study and before the board adopts a draft report under subsection (2) of this section, the department may negotiate an exchange of deeds with any property owner that would be affected by a finding that the state’s interest in the waterway should extend to the current submerged and submersible lands within the waterway. In any negotiation with an affected prop erty owner, the department shall prioritize the goal of state ownership of the current waterway and need not seek an equal exchange of property values."
--Oregon Citizen
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SB 165 A - Digest: This Act amends and repeals laws about the State Land Board's power to claim title to historically filled lands. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Amends the requirements for the State Land Board to assert title to historically filled lands or assert a right to minerals or geothermal resources in historically filled lands. Repeals, on January 2, 2029, the provisions related to assertion of title to historically filled lands by the State Land Board that are required to be completed before December 31, 2025.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage
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Featured Testimony: This Our Land NOT the Governments!
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Special Message from Oregon Citizen:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
This bill undermines the principle of fair and equitable treatment of property owners. By explicitly stating that DSL need not seek fair market value in these negotiations, the bill introduces a dangerous precedent in which the state can devalue land based on policy preferences. Property owners affected by these declarations—many of whom may have held, maintained, or developed this land in good faith for generations—deserve to be treated with transparency and compensated fairly, especially when the state’s interests shift over time.
Second, SB 165 A encourages the state to prioritize a subjective policy goal (public access) over objective, measurable standards (fair market value). This undermines public trust in how the state handles land management and resource negotiations. It opens the door to inconsistent, non-transparent decisions where some landowners may be pressured into accepting unfavorable terms under the guise of "public benefit."
Third, the bill could have unintended fiscal consequences. By authorizing DSL to forgo fair market value, the state may effectively give away valuable public assets without proper compensation. This is contrary to principles of responsible stewardship and undermines the financial accountability we expect of public agencies.
If the state wishes to expand public access to waterways, it should do so through transparent acquisition, public planning processes, and with full respect for private property rights. Short-cutting those processes and setting aside fair valuation does not serve the long-term interests of the public or the property owners who are impacted.
--Oregon Citizen
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SB 845 - Digest: Allows the PUC to order the sale of a water utility that is not able to provide service. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes the Public Utility Commission to order the [acquisition] sale of an incumbent water utility [by] to another water utility or entity when the incumbent water utility is not able to provide [safe, adequate, efficient and reasonable] safe and adequate service. Requires the commission to provide the incumbent water utility reasonable opportunity to take alternative actions to the sale. Increases, from $5,000 to $100,000, the amount of fees that the commission may use to make emergency repairs to public utility plants that provide water service. Authorizes the commission to order a public utility that provides water service to make emergency repairs
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Featured Testimony: Clatsop County Commissioners Oppose
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House Committee On Rules 8:00 am
HB 3838 - Digest: The Act would make new laws about a workforce standards board for some workers in the home and community-based services sector. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board. Prescribes the duties of the board. Directs the board to establish minimum working standards for the home and community-based services workforce. Requires the board to submit a written report to the Legislative Assembly regarding any adopted standard that is anticipated to impact the state budget. Provides that any such standard must be ratified by the Legislative Assembly before taking effect. Provides remedies for allegations of violations of the minimum standards established by the board. Requires the board to conduct a biennial comprehensive review, including a labor market analysis to inform the board's decisions to adopt new minimum standards or revise existing standards. Permits the board to establish uniform training standards for the home and community-based services workforce and to establish a process by rule for certifying worker organizations to provide the training to workers. Requires the board to submit a biennial report to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly summarizing the results of the comprehensive review and any actions taken by the board in the prior biennium.
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Featured Testimony: Living Opportunities in Medford Oppose
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Special Message from Oregon Small Senior Care Homeowner:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
In Medicaid homes, the average reimbursement rate is about $116 per day for full 24/7 care, roughly $3,500 a month per resident. We are only allowed 5 residents. My caregivers already undergo CPR training, dementia education, background checks, HCBS classes, and LGBTQ+ training. They also need to complete a 40-hour class before being hired. I pay my caregivers $18 to $22 an hour.
Currently, small homes like mine already face more stringent requirements than assisted living or skilled nursing facilities, even though we provide similar care. Larger facilities receive higher reimbursement (between $20,000 and $30,000 per resident), but they don’t face the same burdens. This puts small businesses at a disadvantage.
In Oregon, small adult care homes serve about 6,416 residents, and many of us operate on tight budgets. The proposed workforce standards will make it harder to hire and retain staff and could force us to shut down. I find it concerning that unions or government agencies are dictating pay rates for private businesses like mine.
--Oregon Small Senior Care Homeowner
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Special Message from Oregon Citizen:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
The Oregon Legislature needs to review the statutes below and then repeal them. https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_456.620 https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_456.548
"In [HB 3035], The Oregon Stability Council gives banking authority and direction to The Housing and Community Services Department to give out "Housing loans" using taxpayer money.
Note the discriminatory per se language and inculcation of "Systemic Racism" glowingly entered into the TEXT of [HB 3035] below:
"...6) Establish maximum household income limits for residential housing for homeownership financed in whole or in part by the department..."
Note the language of the "Consumer housing cooperative" below:
“...Consumer housing cooperative means a cooperative corporation formed under ORS chapter 62 and whose articles of incorporation provide, in addition to the other requirements of ORS chapter 62, that:
(a) The consumer housing cooperative has been organized exclusively to provide housing facilities for persons and families of lower income and such social, recreational, commercial and communal facilities as may be incidental to such housing facilities..."
"...Housing Finance Fund established in ORS 456.720..." https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_456.720
The descent into embracing Communism continues below:
"...(13) “Person of lower income” or “family of lower income” means:
(a) A person or family residing in this state whose income is not more than 80 percent of area median income, adjusted for family size, as determined by the Housing and Community Services Department based on information from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(b) A person or family residing in this state whose income, adjusted for family size, is below the level the Housing and Community Services Department has determined to be necessary in order to obtain in the open market decent, safe and sanitary housing, including the cost of utilities and taxes, for not more than 25 percent of the gross income of the person or family; or
(c) Any person or family the department determines is appropriate to treat as a person of lower income or a family of lower income incidental to the accomplishment of department programs for persons and families of lower income described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection..."
"The further one reads [HB 3035], one might conclude the use of taxpayer money to fund the above reflects the actions of a criminal enterprise."
--Oregon Citizen
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HB 3187 – Digest: The Act changes laws with respect to discrimination based on age. The Act takes effect 91 days after adjournment. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates. Provides exceptions. Removes the provision allowing age limits for the purpose of selecting apprentices to bring such conduct within the scope of the unlawful discrimination statute.
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Business & Industry Oppose!
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Special Message from Oregon State Chamber of Commerce:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
The Oregon State Chamber of Commerce (OSCC) opposes HB 3187.
The OSCC represents 89 chambers of commerce statewide. These chambers represent local business communities from every corner of the state who are the backbone of their local communities and provide the goods, services, jobs, taxes and philanthropy that fuel our economy.
Oregon currently has one of the clearest and most comprehensive age discrimination laws in the nation. Existing age discrimination laws provide broad protections for workers over 18 for age-based discrimination, and the state's Equal Pay Act ensures fair compensation across all protected classes, including age.
HB 3187 takes a relatively simple and clear law and makes it complex and confusing. It will spur lawsuits and litigation.
HB 3187 would significantly expand the scope of age discrimination claims to include additional claims for older workers, creating new legal risks for small businesses. By allowing salary, experience, and retirement status to serve as “proxies” for age discrimination, the bill would open the door to more exploratory lawsuits, where routine salary-related complaints could be reframed as age discrimination. Rather than protecting employees, HB 3187 would primarily burden small businesses with unnecessary legal uncertainty and risk.
Oregon’s small businesses are already have it hard enough with inflation, economic uncertainty, and workforce shortages. HB 3187 is yet one more costly challenge that would only add more complexity and more avenues for lawsuits.
Please, let’s not make turn a simple and clear age discrimination law into a confusing one. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to litigate discrimination claims, even when successful or even when the claim is without merit. There is no demonstrable need for this bill.
--Oregon State Chamber of Commerce
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Senate Committee On Natural Resources and Wildfire 1:00 pm
HB 3342 A – Digest: The Act changes laws related to the regulation of water rights in this state. The Act goes into effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.2).
[Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0).]
[Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. 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.]
Modifies provisions of law related to the regulation and administration of water rights in this state.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Farm Bureau Opposes!
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Senate Committee On Natural Resources and Wildfire 1:00 pm
HB 3372 A – Digest: The Act allows exempt wells to use a set amount of water per day for irrigating lawns and gardens. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
[Digest: The Act tells an agency to study exempt uses of water. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9).]
[Directs the Water Resources Department to study exempt uses of water. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water not later than September 15, 2026.]
Permits certain exempt ground water users to withdraw up to 3,000 gallons of water per day for watering any lawn or noncommercial or commercial garden that does not exceed one-half acre.
Specifies that the total combined use for industrial or commercial purposes, when combined with a commercial garden, may not exceed 5,000 gallons per day
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Featured Testimony: Allows small farmers to utilize well water for their crops!
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Senate Committee On Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 3823 – Digest: The Act would give a property tax break to a business that generated or stored energy for its own use. The Act would exclude utilities from the tax break. The Act would give a property tax break for property installed at a residence to generate or store energy for use there. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Exempts from property taxes personal property used by a business to generate or store energy for consumption by the business on its premises. Provides that the exemption does not apply to the personal property of utility businesses. Exempts from property taxes property installed at a residence to generate or store energy for consumption at the residence.
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Featured Testimony: No supporting testmony submitted at this writing
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House Committee On Labor and Workplace Standards 3:00 pm
SB 916 - Digest: The Act would repeal the law that denies UI benefits to a person who is unemployed due to an active labor dispute. The Act would make it so that striking workers have an extra unpaid week before they qualify for benefits. The Act would require benefits to be paid back if they are overpaid due to the worker’s later receipt of back pay. The Act would make a school district deduct from future wages benefits received by an employee during a labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). [Digest: The Act would repeal the law that denies benefits to a person who is unemployed due to an active labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).] Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual’s unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual’s place of employment. Provides that individuals unemployed due to a strike are disqualified for benefits for one week before eligibility begins, with the usual unpaid waiting week. Provides for the collection of benefits overpaid during a strike due to the later receipt of back pay. Requires a school district to deduct from an employee’s future wages benefits received during a labor dispute.
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Featured Testimony: Grants Pass Chamber of Commerrce Opposes
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Senate Committee On Energy and Environment 3:00 pm
HB 3546 - Digest: Tells the PUC to provide for a class of service for facilities that use large amounts of energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities. Requires any tariff schedule adopted for the class to allocate the costs of serving large energy use facilities to the facilities and mitigate the risks to other classes of retail electricity consumers. Defines "large energy use facility." Directs the commission to require an electric company to use a contract when providing electricity service to a large energy use facility. Requires the contract to meet certain requirements and conditions. Directs the commission to report each even-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy on trends in load requirements and other implications from large energy use facilities. Sunsets January 2, 2035. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Featured Testimony: No Opposing Testimonies at this writing.
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House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 8:00 am
SB 777 A - Digest: The Act tells the State DOA to change the methods used to determine wolf attack loss grants. The Act requires counties to report to the DOA and the DOA to report to the legislature on payments made. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
[Digest: The Act provides that payments for injury to livestock or working dogs must be based on fair market value and other factors. The Act caps payments. The Act removes payment for lost livestock. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9).]
[Provides that compensation for injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on fair market value and other factors. Caps compensation at $25,000 per animal. Removes the provision authorizing compensation for missing livestock.]
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation. Establishes reporting requirements for counties and for the department to report to the Legislative Assembly on financial assistance provided under the program.
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Featured Testimony: White Sage Land and Cattle Supports!
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Special Message from O'Leary Livestock Family Ranch:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
We are a Ranching Family living in Silver Lake Oregon. Last Summer we had 2 calves come into our private ground next to our Forest permit that had been chewed on by a wolf.
Jon Muir (ODFW) came and examined the first one and made the determination that it was a wolf attack. The Second one showed up at same place few days later. Our daughter-in-law took pictures and sent them on to Jon, same outcome. We doctored both calves and managed to save them, but we also had 3 cows that were turned out in that area come back in without calves. We then found out that 2 miles south of our private land is a wolf den with 1 male, 1 female and 4 pups! Our Ranch lies in the Silver Lake Mule deer winter Range. These wolves have helped wipe out our mule deer population, the elk herd around here is split up and declining with no end in sight.
We are sending this letter in support of measure SB 0777 for compensation payouts of 7-1. We should not have to put up with these wolves, but if we do we should be properly compensated for our losses. We would truly rather have our livestock back than the compensation tho.
-- O'Leary Livestock Family Ranch
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Senate Committee on Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 2944 A – Digest: The Act makes changes to the PECBA. The Act creates penalties for violating certain provisions of the PECBA. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Directs the Employment Relations Board to impose civil penalties against a public employer that has a history of failing to comply with certain requirements under the public employee collective bargaining act. Permits the board to consider extenuating circumstances when determining the amount of the civil penalty to impose.
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Featured Testimony: Association of Oregon Counties Oppose!
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House Committee On Revenue 3:00 pm
HB 3940 A - Digest: The Act raises and moves money to pay for wildfire costs. The Act makes certain changes to laws related to forests and fire protection. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Places a surcharge on sales of beverage containers for purposes of wildfire prevention and response. Directs insurance retaliatory tax revenue to wildfire prevention and response. Transfers one-half percent of General Fund appropriations per biennium to funds for wildfire prevention and response. Transfers 50 percent of the amount held in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund to funds for wildfire prevention and response. Makes certain changes related to the forest products harvest tax, forest protection districts, minimum assessments and surcharges, the Emergency Fire Cost Committee, forestland acreage assessments, zones for fire protection in certain areas and rural fire protection districts. Authorizes certain transfers from the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund. Requires the Legislative Assembly to make moneys available to the State Forestry Department and the Department of the State Fire Marshal to repay loans from the State Treasurer for wildfire suppression costs. Creates an offset against fire protection costs for certain forestland.
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Wine & Disbributor Assoc Opposes!
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Senate Committee on Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 2380 - Digest: The Act tells the BOC to make rules to let a person who has a provisional certificate do supervised work. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances. Establishes requirements for a practitioner to act as a supervisor. Directs the board to adopt rules for the Health Licensing Office to issue a provisional certificate. Provides that, upon application for certification, a provisional certificate holder may submit evidence of supervised practice in order to meet the educational requirements.
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Featured Testimony: Bill Makes Total Sense!
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The proposed Oregon Transportation ReInvestment Package – “TRIP 2025”, is like more like a “psychedelic tax TRIP” for Oregonians. Here is what it really says.
BUYING AND LICENSING A CAR – NOT DRIVING IT YET….
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DMV FEES – Increase Title fees by $90 or around 100%. Current fees range from $90 to $190.
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Increase Vehicle registration FEES - Increase fees by $66. Current vehicle registration fees for gas powered passenger vehicles range from $126-$156. EV’s pay $316 unless they are registered in the OreGo program.
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New Car TAX (also known as the privilege tax passed in 2017 in HB2017 – ironically the last transportation package). Increases the tax applied to new vehicles from 0.5% to 0.8% or a 60%.
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The “New” Car TAX – Which will apply to all new and used cars and be in addition to the privilege tax. It will be a “one time fee of 1% of the vehicle price.
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Tire TAX – Brand new tax that will be 3% for all tires purchased.
ACTUALLY DRIVING
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Weight Mile TAX - Increase it by + 16.9%. These are the fees that trucks pay instead of the fuel tax. Former Senator Boquist and I called for a Special session on this issue in December of 2023 because the weight mile tax was already constitutionally out of balance with the fuel tax.
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Fuel TAX - Raise the current fuel tax of $0.40 per gallon to $0.60 per gallon. The Oregon gas tax was raised last year by 5%. Oregon has the nation’s 10th highest gas tax.
- ***FUTURE FUEL TAX INCREASES WOULD BE INDEXED AND TIED TO INFLATION – NO LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL, NO VOTE, NO INPUT, JUST AUTOMATIC INCREASES***
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Road Usage CHARGE for cars and pickups – pay per mile. Currently this is an optional program for EV vehicles in lieu of higher registration rates. The new program would eventually apply it to ALL vehicles.
- July 2026: Existing EVs
- July 2027: Newly purchased EVs
- July 2028: Plug-In Hybrids
- July 2029: New vehicles rated at 30 MPG or greater (starting with model year 2030).
DON’T DRIVE? – THERE IS A TAX FOR THAT TOO
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Delivery FEE – Businesses with 10 medium duty vehicles (10,000-26,000 pounds – Amazon vans, UPS, Fed Ex, Service providers like Cintas and Aramark, Batteries Northwest, Snap-on Tools, etc.) would be assessed a per mile fee somewhere in between the weight mile rate (which they do not pay today; they pay the gas tax most likely) and the road usage charge.
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Bike TAX increase — Currently the bike tax is $15 this would raise it to $24.9 for all bikes over $200. That is a 63% increase.
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Payroll wage TAX increase - Payroll tax is currently at 0.1%. The increase would take it to 0.18% an 80% increase.
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