l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 4044

Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to study risks and issues relating to earthquake-induced toxic inhalation.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on March 7, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act tells the DEQ to study risks related to toxic inhalation caused by earthquakes. The DEQ must submit a report on its study to the Legislative Assembly by December 1, 2024. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to study risks and issues relating to earthquake-induced toxic inhalation. Requires the department to submit a report on the study to a committee of the Legislative Assembly by December 1, 2024. Authorizes the department to submit recommendations for legislation to the committee by March 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Its course

February 5 to March 7, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action7 actions on 5 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Mar 7 · stopped31 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

Emergency Management, General Government, and VeteransFeb 5 to Feb 127 days

Ways and MeansFeb 12 to Mar 7 · stopped24 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 12

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 5 – Mar 7

  1. Feb 5Introduced
  2. Sent to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
  3. Feb 6Heard in Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
  4. Feb 8Heard in Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
  5. Feb 12Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Mar 7Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Feb 5First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Feb 5Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Feb 6Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Feb 8Work Session held.House of Representatives
  5. Feb 12Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  6. Feb 12Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Mar 7In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives