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Senate Labor and Business committee advances a slate of bills to the Senate floor

3205354 · May 6, 2025
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On May 6, 2025 the Oregon Senate Committee on Labor and Business voted to advance a group of work‑session bills — ranging from economic development board membership changes to grant limits for ports and minor regulatory changes — to the full Senate with "due pass" recommendations.

The Oregon Senate Committee on Labor and Business on Tuesday advanced multiple work‑session bills to the full Senate with due‑pass recommendations, moving the measures out of committee and selecting Senate carriers for floor consideration.

The package included administrative changes to economic development statutes, adjustments to grant limits for ports, a provisional cosmetology certificate, modest increases in witness fees for workers' compensation claimants, and other technical fixes.

Committee members said the measures were largely technical or delegated to agency rulemaking, and they voted on the bills individually during the morning session. Several bills were carried over or assigned Senate carriers as part of the votes.

Among the items…

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