l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2425

Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Ways and Means Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: Sets up a task force to look at who is supplying the goods and services that public bodies in this state buy and to make sure that the products don't involve forced labor or child labor. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8).</b> [<i>Digest: Tells a public body that buys electric cars or solar panels that it needs proof from the vendor that no forced labor was used in producing the car or panel. Specifies penalties for lying about the proof. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8).</i>] [<i>Requires public bodies that procure electric vehicles and solar photovoltaic energy systems to receive before entering a contract for the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system a certification from the manufacturer, distributor, vendor or supplier that the production, assembly, transportation or sale of the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system did not use or involve forced labor or oppressive child labor. Requires probative evidence to accompany the certification.</i>] [<i>Provides that a person that supplies a certification that is false, materially misleading, illegitimate, untruthful, forged or substantially inaccurate is liable for a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 or half of the price the public body paid for the electric vehicle or solar photovoltaic energy system. Subjects the public body to similar penalties for knowingly or intentionally accepting a certification that the public body knows is false, materially misleading, illegitimate, untruthful, forged or substantially inaccurate.</i>] [<i>Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.</i>] <b>Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor. Requires the task force to devise methods for verifying the identities of manufacturers, distributors, vendors or suppliers of products that public bodies procure in this state and ensuring that the public bodies do not procure products for which production, assembly, transportation or sale used or involved forced labor or oppressive child labor. Specifies methods by which the task force may carry out the task force's purpose. <b>Sunsets on December 31, 2026. <b>Declares an emergency, effective on passage.</b>

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

4 co-sponsors

Lucetta Elmer, Shelly Boshart Davis, Cyrus Javadi, Boomer Wright

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Daniel Bonham

Its course

January 13 to June 27, 2025, 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 action16 actions on 14 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Apr 2299 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Labor and Workplace StandardsJan 17 to Apr 1588 days

In the SenateApr 22 to Jun 27 · stopped66 days

Waiting for a committeeApr 22 to Apr 231 day

Labor and BusinessApr 23 to Jun 240 days

Ways and MeansJun 2 to Jun 27 · stopped25 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • House of Representatives, third reading43–13

    Passed · Apr 22 · 4 present

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 15

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 Jan 13 – Apr 22

  1. Jan 13Introduced
  2. Jan 17Sent to Labor and Workplace Standards
  3. Feb 24Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  4. Apr 9Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  5. Apr 15Labor and Workplace Standards recommended it as amended
  6. Apr 16Read a second time
  7. Apr 22Passed the House of Representatives, 43 to 13

In the Senate Apr 23 – Jun 27

  1. Apr 23Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to Labor and Business
  3. May 13Heard in Labor and Business
  4. May 22Heard in Labor and Business
  5. Jun 2Labor and Business recommended it
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 16 actions, as published
  1. Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Jan 17Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.House of Representatives
  3. Feb 24Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Apr 9Work Session held.House of Representatives
  5. Apr 15Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed.House of Representatives
  6. Apr 16Second reading.House of Representatives
  7. Apr 17Rules suspended. Carried over to April 21, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
  8. Apr 21Rules suspended. Carried over to April 22, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
  9. Apr 22Third reading. Carried by Diehl. Passed.House of Representatives
  10. Apr 23First reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  11. Apr 23Referred to Labor and Business.Senate
  12. May 13Public Hearing held.Senate
  13. May 22Work Session held.Senate
  14. Jun 2Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill, refer to Ways and Means.Senate
  15. Jun 2Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President.Senate
  16. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate