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Vice Chair Graber moved House Bill 2,693 (relating to levies) to the floor with a due pass recommendation and to refer the bill to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means by prior reference. Chair Tran called the roll and the clerk recorded the vote; the motion passed.

Vice Chair Lewis moved House Bill 2,726 (Columbia Corridor Flood Safety Project) to the floor with a due pass recommendation and referral to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means by prior reference. Chair Tran called the roll; the motion passed.

Vice Chair Graber moved House Concurrent Resolution 23 (recognizing and honoring Oregon civilians who served on Wake Island during World War II) to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The clerk called the roll and the motion passed.

All three motions passed during the work sessions; the committee closed the work sessions and proceeded to the public hearings on other bills.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Committee On Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans 03/13/2025 1:00 PM","oneSentenceSummary","During the March 13 work sessions the committee moved House Bill 2,693 (levies) and House Bill 2,726 (Columbia Corridor Flood Safety Project) to the floor with due pass recommendations and referred both to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means; it also moved House Concurrent Resolution 23 with a due pass recommendation.","taxTitle","Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans, House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Oregon","taxId",17514,"location","Oregon","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6277636,"Rep. Boyce urges state backing for hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans under HB 3460",175,3012000,3187000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09&start=3012&end=3187","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09/thumbnail_3012000.jpg","/articles/6277636/Oregon/Rep-Boyce-urges-state-backing-for-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-veterans-under-HB-3460","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6277636-1b8910aa2d48999eace587c687839e63/orig.mp4?Expires=1771190470&Signature=BAH~n6o72cf~-S~pVwdDnx9qEaZrI5TXXl7-SUnSGJz7kSLprZSPpUzRtB7r9YhHV5ddEqo8wQlun0hEZdqUlTDem15jJF~JnujAKGqseJ-VvuIFBJJYmcskvRNLL9htfrs5eXn17vSmWEMAZ9ZSsZeNdhPcjKXWqJOGcugUtoLwpsDlVtyd0oePT79S3s6AKZuFuxHH0PGn2LIPYITC7H3cpzvbwfIUmr9-8QWa1iuB82BkPhQcV3kPEk08GbGLV~vtxm2y7QvTLDMKpLHLvn3vMgij1zMOTH0K6GnJoFYLH9Y~p-S623J59OOtEif4nNE20Obms89DTUU6FnDl6g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Representative Boyce introduced House Bill 3460 and urged the committee to consider a statewide program to reimburse hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for Oregon veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who are ineligible for medical assistance and whose household income is at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.

Rep. Boyce described HBOT as a treatment that proponents say ","Representative Boyce and other supporters described House Bill 3460, which would create a state program to reimburse hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain veterans with traumatic brain injury or PTSD who are ineligible for medical assistance.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6277641,"Rep. Graber’s bill would have DOGAMI model seismically induced hazmat plumes for emergency managers",177,3393000,3570000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09&start=3393&end=3570","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09/thumbnail_3393000.jpg","/articles/6277641/Oregon/Rep-Grabers-bill-would-have-DOGAMI-model-seismically-induced-hazmat-plumes-for-emergency-managers","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6277641-d11124d27f673a504a6c59a61a4893c8/orig.mp4?Expires=1771190470&Signature=jvBMUfM1dPGHXYOXYSAuXwuColXh3LnCDqzlFj8EixYGq0ZUH0alTFsPRaUBMi~g3DMzdR~Q2SVG4~yPYb1uEQ0Ta7WB-wJqd7GWMgSW3vG3vzC0kGjbwbalk0~Y1DhqdzkNySGvfydHt2Wy-kNvf9yKgvdF7JNg-uawkjxv~hw0JO8in9QIixY~LSH703fy0cY-mjD92yDNrhsbO-jRoqRphV~pNLY1Bd5CwJdYXhH5Hbv-e6g~joZx4T8KQoE76lQE3xQ7gzQfNjX4IkVpOsDg08joduRSm7wtxRo9YvWoGe5UM7QhoDkaFzRpJFuz18CIZM6HdHenppTGCjwdIg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Representative Dacia Graber told the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans that House Bill 3492 with the dash 1 amendment directs the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) to study risks related to earthquake‑induced hazardous‑material releases and model toxic plume dispersion scenarios.

Rep. Graber said the goal is to compile impartial risk models — by season, weather pattern and regional geography — so local emergency managers can incorporate the results into preplanned response actions. She told the committee the study is intended to “strengthen our public safety by compiling these risk modeling scenarios into an impartial report and sharing it with relevant emergency management teams for incorporation into their local emergency response plans.”

John Apapa, Oregon State Resilience Officer, testified that the project would “bring together data that already exists in the state but in a lot of different locations” and would produce actionable modeling for local emergency managers who lack the capacity to combine geological hazard data, structural design data and air‑dispersion modeling. He said the work would allow emergency managers to avoid locating casualty collection points, shelters or evacuation routes in areas likely to experience a hazardous plume after an earthquake.

Christina Appleby, legislative coordinator for DOGAMI, said DOGAMI has experience producing geologic hazard maps and risk assessments and would likely contract additional expertise (for example, structural engineering and plume modeling) to produce a usable study for local emergency managers.

The dash 1 amendment clarifies the study’s scope, permits facilities that have already coordinated with local emergency managers to be exempted from a site‑specific report, and sets a confidentiality and redaction process: DOGAMI’s site‑specific report will be shared confidentially with the State Resilience Officer (SRO), who — with the Department of Emergency Management and the SRO — will identify material that must remain confidential for homeland‑security reasons, then give affected facilities a reasonable opportunity to request redactions before the remainder is released to local emergency managers.

Committee members praised the negotiated confidentiality procedures and asked DOGAMI and the SRO to highlight replicable industry practices that reduce risk.","House Bill 3492 (dash 1) would direct the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) and the State Resilience Officer to model earthquake‑induced hazardous‑material dispersion scenarios and share redacted results with local emergency managers.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6277646,"Treasurer, unions and business groups spar over HB 2200 dash 1 on climate risk and PERS investing",2734,288000,3022000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09&start=288&end=3022","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2647578-4c2936b1f16cf9a25c9aa07ead54dc09/thumbnail_288000.jpg","/articles/6277646/Oregon/Treasurer-unions-and-business-groups-spar-over-HB-2200-dash-1-on-climate-risk-and-PERS-investing","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6277646-3dff35f2a795e2f8130c220bf49405c7/orig.mp4?Expires=1771190470&Signature=ckT5gFI3rPdf4bVeqGc1oVMw4VhD7ikHMLLB4NZI9F4Vf2iC5PWCetbNKeYFJlRfOhMWezpmc~pBJ3k7kBlCKvlP2-~trkmZmRrmeMxogqTF1amH53nijYg-NivRP4~LDknaKgUCETAJHCVWiBYIF1jWo~IY9Bi5AO7hirLlJoAjXLT25CWRko9tDPPF7flcm3GkndeXXzyRimSHIz07GebDNty7I1uMgzqRomvGvygINL4uE3uFB3LzbmDCwoVHqlaml1KtSecgKiOU2r38NrgMWXLIXu2bIyOAvB0JBbRYyywo63k8Ad89aOJcbrJJek8uyr5y2NTmeZuhGLZb0w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Chair Tran opened public testimony on House Bill 2,200, a bill that would require the state treasurer and the Oregon Investment Council to analyze and manage climate-related risk in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund (OPRF) and pursue reductions in the fund’s carbon intensity through an investment preference. Elizabeth Steiner, Oregon state treasurer, and more than a dozen witnesses provided pro and con testimony during the committee’s March 13 hearing.

The dash 1 amendment, as Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner described it, “requires biannual reports from Treasury to the legislature, reaffirms our fiduciary commitment to beneficiaries and OPRF, and asks us to actively manage, analyze, and manage the risks of climate change to the public employee retirement fund.” She said the bill is intended to protect beneficiaries and public agencies by “buffer[ing] us against the extremes at either end of the political spectrum.”

Supporters including labor unions, Divest Oregon, and national and state retiree groups told the committee that climate risk is a material long-term financial risk and that the amendment strikes a balanced approach by preserving fiduciary language while adding transparency and reporting. Susan Allen, representing Oregon AFSCME, said the amendment’s language that “nothing in this section requires the Oregon Investment Council or the state treasurer to take any action … unless the council or state treasurer determines in good faith that the action is consistent with fiduciary responsibilities as described in ORS 238.66,” gave her members confidence the bill respects fiduciary duty.

Dissenting witnesses, including Rep. Ed Deal (testifying as an individual) and witnesses from Oregon Business and Industry and the State Financial Officers Foundation, warned the committee that the amendment could politicize investment decisions, prioritize one category of risk over others, or create legal exposure. Rep. Deal argued the dash 1 “creates a priority conflict” and urged a no vote. Dr. Oje Olaika, representing a coalition of state financial officers, said focusing on ESG-style goals could be “devastating” for public funds if those goals supersede a sole focus on financial returns.

Other detailed points raised in testimony included: (1) the amendment’s indemnity language that would hold the OIC and the treasurer harmless for investment decisions; (2) requests from several witnesses to include Scope 3 emissions reporting when disclosure allows; (3) the treasurer’s pledge of biennial reporting and legislative transparency; and (4) differing interpretations of the term “just transition” and whether the amendment creates an actionable investment preference or only a planning and reporting framework.

No committee vote on HB 2200 occurred at this hearing; the committee closed the public hearing after taking testimony from both supporters and opponents. The bill record shows broad stakeholder engagement, including unions, retiree groups, business interests, advocacy organizations, and the state treasurer’s office.","A lengthy public hearing on House Bill 2,200 (dash 1 amendment) drew sharply divided testimony about whether the state treasury should prioritize climate-related risk analysis and emissions reduction goals for the Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee advances two bills to Ways & Means and endorses a concurrent resolution

Rep. Boyce urges state backing for hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans under HB 3460

Rep. Graber’s bill would have DOGAMI model seismically induced hazmat plumes for emergency managers

Treasurer, unions and business groups spar over HB 2200 dash 1 on climate risk and PERS investing