l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2746

Requires employers and employment agencies to include certain wage and benefit information in job postings for job, promotion and transfer opportunities.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives'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.

Digest: The Act makes new laws regarding pay transparency. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7). Requires employers and employment agencies to include certain wage and benefit information in job postings for job, promotion and transfer opportunities. Requires employers to maintain certain employment records for each employee. <b>Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct proactive outreach and ongoing training to educate employers and employment agencies about the requirements.</b> Makes a violation an unlawful practice and permits the commissioner [<i>of the Bureau of Labor and Industries</i>] to assess civil penalties for a violation. [<i>Establishes circumstances under which the commissioner may dismiss a complaint about a violation.</i>] <b>Permits the commissioner to issue a letter of explanation or education to an employer or employment agency instead of a civil penalty for a first violation. Requires the remainder of sums collected as penalties, after application toward reimbursement of costs, to be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. <b>Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer or an employment agency to retaliate or discriminate against an employee for invoking or exercising certain rights.</b> Makes employment agencies subject to the prohibition against inquiries regarding salary history and past criminal convictions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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

1 co-sponsor

Farrah Chaichi

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Khanh Pham

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 action8 actions on 7 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Labor and Workplace StandardsJan 17 to Apr 376 days

Ways and MeansApr 3 to Jun 27 · stopped85 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 3

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 – Jun 27

  1. Jan 13Introduced
  2. Jan 17Sent to Labor and Workplace Standards
  3. Mar 3Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  4. Mar 5Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  5. Mar 26Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  6. Apr 3Labor and Workplace Standards recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  7. Sent to Ways and Means
  8. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 8 actions, as published
  1. Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Jan 17Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Mar 3Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Mar 5Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  5. Mar 26Work Session held.House of Representatives
  6. Apr 3Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Apr 3Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  8. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives