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.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2858
Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act creates new systems and structures to plan and improve emergency response in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Creates statewide preparedness offices in the Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Imposes duties on the offices relating to statewide coordination of emergency management. [<i>Creates the Commission on Statewide Intergovernmental Emergency Response Training Facilities and Programming. Directs the commission to develop and carry out a strategic plan for investments to improve statewide emergency preparedness.</i>] <b>Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to make grants for public safety projects.</b> Creates the Statewide Regional Training Office within the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Directs the office to manage and operate facilities for emergency response training. [<i>Creates the Task Force on Twenty-first Century Emergency Management Local Governance. Directs the task force to evaluate models for conducting local and regional emergency management operations.</i>] Requires all state agencies to designate employees to act as liaisons for emergency management operations or for preparing continuity of governance plans. Requires each county to submit biennial reports on the state of the county's emergency preparedness. <b>Delays the date on which responsibility for management of the emergency notification system is transferred to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.</b> Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
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 action7 actions on 6 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
Emergency Management, General Government, and VeteransJan 17 to Apr 1588 days
Ways and MeansApr 15 to Jun 27 · stopped73 days
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 – Jun 27
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
- Feb 6Heard in Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
- Apr 8Heard in Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
- Apr 15Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
- Sent to Ways and Means
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
- Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Jan 17Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
- Feb 6Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- Apr 8Work Session held.House of Representatives
- Apr 15Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
- Apr 15Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives