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HB2247 • 2025

Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards.

Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards.

Digest: The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards.
  • A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
  • Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards. A report will be submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to business and labor not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to employment standards.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2247
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Labor and Workplace Standards for Representative Dacia Grayber)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells OED to study issues related to employment standards. A report will be
submitted by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to employment standards. Directs
the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
business and labor not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to employment standards.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Employment Department shall study issues related to employment
standards. The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to business and labor no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1757