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HB2572 • 2025

Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.

Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Hudson
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.

Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.

Digest: Keeps one party to a franchise agreement from telling the other party when the other party must do business.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Keeps one party to a franchise agreement from telling the other party when the other party must do business.
  • Takes effect 91 days after the session ends.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
  • Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.

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 Commerce and Consumer Protection.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Keeps one party to a franchise agreement from telling the other party when the other party must do business. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to agreements between franchisors and franchisees; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2572
Sponsored by Representative HUDSON (Presession filed.)
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: Keeps one party to a franchise agreement from telling the other party when the other
party must do business. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Prohibits agreements between franchisors and franchisees from requiring franchisees to conduct
business during hours or days the franchisee deems unprofitable or unsafe or on religious holidays.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to agreements between franchisors and franchisees; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 650.005 to
650.100.
SECTION 2. An agreement between a franchisor and a franchisee may not require hours
or days of operation for the franchisee’s business that the franchisee deems unprofitable or
unsafe or that require the franchisee to conduct operations on a religious holiday.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act applies to agreements that franchisors and
franchisees enter into or renew on or after the effective date of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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.
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