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HB3288 • 2025

Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.

Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.

Labor Taxes
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.

Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.

Digest: The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7).
  • Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.
  • Requires the director to report the findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment on or before September 15, 2026.

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. 2025-01-24 House

    Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-21 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay a type of tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7).
Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period. Requires the director to report the findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment on or before September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to unemployment insurance taxes.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3288
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 would tell an agency director to study ways to give employers more time to pay
a type of tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7).
Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers
to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period. Requires the director to
report the findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment on
or before September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to unemployment insurance taxes.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Director of the Employment Department shall conduct a study of
methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an ex-
tended period. The director shall report the findings of the study in the manner provided by
ORS 192.245 to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to employment
on or before 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.
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