HB2768 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Evans
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.

Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons.

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to contract with one or more persons to help acquire and use resources for emergencies.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to contract with one or more persons to help acquire and use resources for emergencies.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons.
Specifies the minimum duties of philanthropic liaisons.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to contract with one or more persons to help acquire and use resources for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons. Specifies the minimum duties of philanthropic liaisons.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to philanthropic liaisons for emergency preparedness; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2768
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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: The Act tells ODEM to contract with one or more persons to help acquire and use re-
sources for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more
philanthropic liaisons. Specifies the minimum duties of philanthropic liaisons.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to philanthropic liaisons for emergency preparedness; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall contract with
one or more persons to serve as philanthropic liaisons for the department.
(2) The department shall specify the duties of a philanthropic liaison by contract. Such
duties must include:
(a) Improving coordination between private and public resources available for emergency
preparedness; and
(b) Acting as liaison between the following entities to coordinate procurement and dis-
tribution of resources:
(A) The department;
(B) State and national philanthropic entities;
(C) Community organizations active in disaster;
(D) Long-term recovery groups;
(E) Other community organizations; and
(F) Survivors of an emergency.
(3) A philanthropic liaison is an independent contractor and is not a state agency for any
purpose.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) “Community organization active in disaster” means an organization or network of
organizations that is prepared to address emergency prevention, preparedness, response and
recovery at a local level.
(b) “Long-term recovery group” means a cooperative organization comprising represen-
tatives of nonprofit, governmental, business and faith-based entities that works within a lo-
cal community to prepare for, build resilience against and recover from emergencies.
SECTION 2.
This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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 2435
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