HB2893 • 2025

Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.

Labor

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

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Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.

Digest: The Act directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a strike.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a strike.
The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by a certain date.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a strike. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials. Directs the division to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly with findings.
Relating to: Relating to screening of replacement workers during a labor dispute in an industry involving hazardous materials.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2893
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 directs DCBS to study the benefits of screening replacement workers during a
strike. The Act tells DCBS to submit a report by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Busi-
ness Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor dis-
putes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous
materials. Directs the division to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly with findings.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to screening of replacement workers during a labor dispute in an industry involving haz-
ardous materials.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Con-
sumer and Business Services shall study the potential safety benefits of screening replace-
ment workers during a strike, lockout or other labor dispute with an employer that employs
more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) of this section, “hazardous materials” means:
(a) Hazardous waste as defined in ORS 466.005;
(b) Hazardous substances as defined in ORS 453.005;
(c) Radioactive waste as defined in ORS 469.300;
(d) Uranium mine overburden or uranium mill tailings, mill wastes or mill by-product
materials;
(e) Radioactive substances as defined in ORS 453.005;
(f) Any substance designated by the United States Department of Transportation as
hazardous pursuant to the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.,
P.L. 93-633, as amended; and
(g) Any substance that the United States Environmental Protection Agency designates
as hazardous pursuant to:
(A) The federal Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2601 to 2692, P.L. 94-469, as
amended; or
(B) The federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 to 6992, P.L.
94-580, as amended.
(3) The division shall submit a report regarding its findings under subsection (1) of this
section in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 no later than September 15, 2026.
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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