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Committee advances five House bills to the Senate floor; several others scheduled for further work
Summary
During the April 15 meeting, the Senate Committee on Labor and Business moved multiple House bills to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations and carriers named; other bills were held for further amendment or public hearing.
The Senate Committee on Labor and Business held a sequence of work sessions and votes on April 15. The committee moved several House-originated measures to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations; each motion passed without recorded roll-call vote tallies in the transcript. The committee also held public hearings on several bills and scheduled follow-up work.
Actions taken in work sessions (motions made by committee members in this meeting):
- House Bill 2130: Vice Chair Bonham moved the bill to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation. The motion passed and Chair Taylor said she would be the carrier. The bill would raise the Oregon Insurance Guaranty Association cap to $600,000 for insolvency obligations and add the association’s responsibility for cyber-insurance policies; the House had approved the bill 58–0 per committee materials.
- House Bill 228A: Moved to the floor with a due-pass recommendation (moved by Vice Chair Bonham). The committee recorded no objection and the motion passed; committee materials say the bill establishes an Employer Assistance Division within the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) to provide education and dispute-resolution resources to employers.
- House Bill 2802A: Vice Chair Bueno moved the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation; the motion passed and Chair Taylor indicated she would carry the measure. The bill requires insurers to make lump-sum payments of permanent-partial-disability awards in certain circumstances and clarifies exceptions when reconsideration proceedings are pending.
- House Bill 3022: Vice Chair Bonham moved HB 3022 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation; the motion passed and Senator Pham agreed to carry the bill. The measure authorizes certain state agencies to disclose information to the Oregon Employment Department for administering paid family leave, paid medical leave insurance and unemployment insurance programs; effective and retroactivity details are in committee materials.
Bills carried over or scheduled for further work:
- House Bill 3447A (nitrous-oxide canister sales age): Committee discussion focused on whether to raise the age threshold to 21. Vice Chair Bonham rescinded an earlier motion to move the bill to the floor, and the committee agreed to carry the bill over for further negotiation and a possible committee amendment.
Other items: the meeting also featured public hearings on HB 3020A (ban on wagering on greyhound/other dog races), HB 3115A (lottery-ticket assignment and winner anonymity), HB 2127A (auto-dealer franchise rules, including testimony from Scout Motors on direct sales), HB 3021A (housekeeping changes for the Oregon Employment Department and Paid Leave Oregon), and HB 2541 (extension of workplace milk-expression protections to certain agricultural workers). Several of those bills were discussed without committee votes and will appear on the committee’s future agenda.
The committee recorded each motion as passing by “no objection” where so noted in the transcript; explicit roll-call vote tallies were not read into the record for these work-session motions during this meeting.
