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SB1596 - Relating to a right to repair consumer electronic equipment.
Janeen A. Sollman, Michael E. Dembrow, Courtney Neron
Last updated 8 months ago
55 Co-Sponsors
Requires someone that makes electronic items for consumers to give on fair terms to those who look at, maintain or fix the items what they need to maintain or fix the items. Fair terms means, in part, giving independent people what they need on the same terms as people the maker authorizes to make fixes. Lets the state fine people who violate the Act. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Requires a person that makes electronic items for consumers to give on fair terms to people who look at, maintain or repair the items what they need to do effective maintenance or make effective repairs. Fair terms means, in part, giving independent people what they need on the same terms as people the maker authorizes to make repairs. Lets the state fine people who violate the Act. Takes effect 91 days after session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.1).] Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available to an owner of consumer electronic equipment or an independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, 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 or repairing consumer electronic equipment. Permits the Attorney General in response to a consumer complaint to make an investigative demand of a manufacturer that appears to have violated the Act. Specifies the contents of the investigative demand and the method of service. Subjects a manufacturer that violates the Act to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day of the violation. [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.]
STATUS
Passed
HB4111 - Relating to farm machinery and equipment; prescribing an effective date.
Eric Werner Reschke, Lynn Findley, Court Boice
Last updated 7 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes all farm machinery tax exempt. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from ad valorem property taxation. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
HB4131 - Relating to individual development accounts; declaring an emergency.
Ricardo Ruiz, Deb Patterson, James I. Manning
Last updated 8 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
The Act funds matching deposits for IDA accounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4135 - Relating to threatening a mass injury event; prescribing an effective date.
Courtney Neron, Mark W. Meek, Kevin L. Mannix
Last updated 8 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
The Act creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event and directs the CJC to report certain data to the legislature about the new crime. The Act prohibits the possession of a gun by a person convicted of the new crime. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, upon the first offense, and five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, upon second and subsequent offenses. Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Provides that threatening a mass injury event constituting a misdemeanor is treated as a felony for purposes of supervision duties and funding. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to report to the legislative assembly concerning specified data related to threatening a mass injury event charges. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
HB4147 - Relating to school buses.
Courtney Neron, Zachary T. Hudson, Ricardo Ruiz
Last updated 8 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the use of stop arm cameras on school buses to record people who do not stop for bus safety lights. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights. Permits a law enforcement agency to issue a citation for failure to stop for bus safety lights based on photographs or video if certain other conditions are met.
STATUS
Passed
HB4056 - Relating to property tax foreclosure surplus; prescribing an effective date.
Charlie Conrad, Edwin L. Diehl, Christine Goodwin
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
The Act would require counties to set up a way to handle surplus proceeds from tax lien foreclosure sales. The Act would pause the transfer to counties of deeds to foreclosed property. The Act would make the Department of Revenue work with county tax officers to set up a uniform way to handle the surpluses. The Act would require a report from the department with suggestions for bills for the 2025 session. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). [Digest: The Act lets people claim a tax foreclosure surplus. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).] [Allows former owner, or their heirs or successors, to claim from the county any surplus from a property tax foreclosure. Establishes conditions and time limitations for making a claim. Requires county tax foreclosure notices to include information about claims.] Requires counties to establish a process for handling the surplus proceeds from property tax lien foreclosure sales. Suspends the operation of the statute under which deeds to such properties are conveyed to the counties through December 31, 2025. Directs the Department of Revenue to coordinate with county tax officers to determine a detailed uniform process for handling surplus proceeds that complies with the United States Supreme Court in Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, 598 U.S. 631 (2023). Requires the department to submit a report containing the determinations and recommendations for legislation to the Legislative Assembly not later than September 15, 2024. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
SB1553 - Relating to the addiction crisis in this state.
Katherine B. Lieber, James I. Manning, Tim Knopp
Last updated 8 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to include the use of an unlawfully possessed controlled substance while in or on a public transit vehicle [or public transit station]. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Provides that the new manner of committing interfering with public transportation is a designated drug-related misdemeanor for purposes of supervision duty and funding.
STATUS
Passed
SB1503 - Relating to public health; prescribing an effective date.
Rob Wagner, Dan Rayfield, Bill Hansell
Last updated 7 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes a task force on community safety and suicide prevention. The Act provides money for research on those topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Establishes the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention and requires the task force to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care. Appropriates money for research on gun violence and suicide prevention ordered by the task force. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
HB4134 - Relating to housing; declaring an emergency.
Lucetta Elmer, David Gomberg, Jeff Helfrich
Last updated 7 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
This Act makes OBDD give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: This Act makes DAS give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Requires the [Oregon Department of Administrative Services] Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households. Requires cities receiving grants to provide reports to the Oregon Business Development Department. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4102 - Relating to natural climate solutions; and prescribing an effective date.
Gregory V. Smith, Michael E. Dembrow, Barbara L. Levy
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
This Act specifies the sources of moneys in the Natural and Working Lands Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Specifies the sources of moneys in the Natural and Working Lands Fund. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
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