SB227 • 2025

Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft.

Labor

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Manning Jr
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft.

Digest: The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft.
Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to labor and business not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Labor and Business.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs BOLI to conduct a wage theft study. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft. Directs the bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to labor and business not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to wage theft.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 227
Sponsored by Senator MANNING JR (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 BOLI to conduct a wage theft study. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to wage theft. Directs the
bureau to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to labor and
business not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to wage theft.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Bureau of Labor and Industries shall study issues related to wage theft.
The bureau shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to labor and business no later than 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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