Committee reviews bill to close enforcement gaps for landscape contractors, extend 3‑day cancellation to renters

Senate Bill 865, presented to the House Committee on Labor and Workplace Standards during a public hearing April 23, would amend Oregon’s landscape contractor law to close enforcement gaps and extend a three‑business‑day cancellation right for landscape contracts to renters.

Annie Bondamas, administrator for the Landscape Contractors Board, told the committee the bill would make four statutory changes. “The first change … fixes an important gap in our ability to enforce workers’ compensation coverage,” Bondamas said, describing situations in which specialized tasks performed under other agencies’ exceptions — irrigation backflow,…