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Secretary of State warns HB 4024 implementation risks without fixes or more time
Summary
Secretary of State Tobias Reed told the House Rules Committee that the statute enacted as House Bill 4024 has ambiguities and an aggressive timeline that risk confusing donors and campaigns, creating enforcement and IT challenges unless the legislature acts to clarify deadlines, definitions, and funding.
Secretary of State Tobias Reed told the House Committee on Rules on June 25 that implementation of House Bill 4024 (chapter 9, Oregon Laws 2024) requires legislative fixes or additional time and funding to avoid unintended penalties for ordinary donors and an under-tested, brittle information system.
"We need more guidance to get this right, and time is short," Reed said, explaining that certain networks of connected political entities will share contribution limits and that, under current text, donors could unknowingly exceed combined limits and face penalties with no administrative path to cure the mistake. Reed gave a hypothetical: if an individual gives $3,300 to a candidate and later gives $500 to a separate…
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