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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Enrolled
House Bill 5007
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Oregon
Department of Administrative Services)
CHAPTER .................................................
AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Employment Department; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts and
moneys appropriated to the Employment Department by sections 2 and 3 of this 2025 Act,
but excluding lottery funds and federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this
2025 Act, collected or received by the Employment Department:
(1) Unemployment insurance,
shared services, workforce
operations, contributions
and recovery, and workforce
and economic research............. $314,651,681
(2) Office of Administrative
Hearings.................................... $ 42,784,250
(3) Family and medical leave
insurance program.................... $109,427,132
(4) Modernization Initiative............ $ 35,220,754
SECTION 2.
(1) There is appropriated to the Employment Department, for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2025, out of the modernization funds made available to the state on June
4, 2009, and July 16, 2009, under section 903(f) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1103(f)),
as amended, the amount of $41,743,207 to be used for the purposes of administering unem-
ployment compensation law and public employment offices and for debt service and capital
improvements.
(2) Expenditures of funds appropriated to the Employment Department under this section
are limited by section 1 (1), (3) and (4) of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. (1) There is appropriated to the Employment Department, for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2025, out of the Employment Department Special Administrative Fund es-
tablished in ORS 657.822, the amount of $65,000,000 to be used for the purposes of adminis-
tering unemployment compensation law and public employment offices and for debt service
and capital improvements.
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(2) Expenditures of funds appropriated to the Employment Department under this section
are limited by section 1 (1), (3) and (4) of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$192,329,282 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from federal funds, other than those described in section 2 of this 2025
Act, collected or received by the Employment Department.
SECTION 5. (1) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Employment
Department for unemployment insurance claims from the Unemployment Compensation
Trust Fund are not limited.
(2) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Employment Department
for benefits paid from the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund are not limited.
(3) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Employment Department
for benefits paid under the federal Trade Act and for unemployment insurance claims from
federal funds are not limited.
SECTION 6. 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
July 1, 2025.
Passed by House June 13, 2025
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Timothy G. Sekerak, Chief Clerk of House
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Julie Fahey, Speaker of House
Passed by Senate June 19, 2025
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Rob Wagner, President of Senate
Received by Governor:
........................M.,........................................................., 2025
Approved:
........................M.,........................................................., 2025
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Tina Kotek, Governor
Filed in Office of Secretary of State:
........................M.,........................................................., 2025
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Tobias Read, Secretary of State
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