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HB2858 • 2025

Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

The plain English breakdown is still being put together. The official documents below are already here.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-04-15 House

    Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  3. 2025-04-15 House

    Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  4. 2025-04-08 House

    Work Session held.

  5. 2025-02-06 House

    Public Hearing held.

  6. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  7. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices relating to statewide coordination of emergency management.
[<i>Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facilities and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for investments to improve statewide emergency preparedness.</i>]
<b>Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to make grants for public safety projects.</b>
Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training.
[<i>Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Directs the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management operations.</i>]
Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans.
Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county's emergency preparedness.
<b>Delays the date on which responsibility for management of the emergency notification system is transferred to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.</b>
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to emergency management; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee