l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3634

Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce.

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 with respect to workforce development activities with respect to the water workforce. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the Water Workforce Program in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support workforce development initiatives within the water workforce. Directs the commission to award grants to local workforce development boards to administer the program. [<i>Requires the commission to disburse funds appropriated for the purpose of administering the program to local workforce development boards within a certain timeline.</i>] <b>Requires the commission and local workforce development boards to consult with certain entities to establish a process and criteria for distributing moneys to certain subgrantees and entities that participate in certain workforce development activities. Requires the commission and the boards to establish the process and criteria within a certain timeline.</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.

In the House of Representatives

3 co-sponsors

Sarah McDonald, Boomer Wright, E. Werner Reschke

In the Senate

    2 co-sponsors

    Dick Anderson, Suzanne Weber

    Its course

    February 20 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 RepresentativesFeb 20 to Jun 27 · stopped127 days

    Waiting for a committeeFeb 20 to Feb 211 day

    Higher Education and Workforce DevelopmentFeb 21 to Apr 1452 days

    Ways and MeansApr 14 to Jun 27 · stopped74 days

    Amendments

    Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

    • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

      Adopted Apr 14

    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 20 – Jun 27

    1. Feb 20Introduced
    2. Feb 21Sent to Higher Education and Workforce Development
    3. Mar 4Heard in Higher Education and Workforce Development
    4. Apr 8Heard in Higher Education and Workforce Development
    5. Apr 14Higher Education and Workforce Development recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
    6. Sent to Ways and Means
    7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
    All 7 actions, as published
    1. Feb 20First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
    2. Feb 21Referred to Higher Education and Workforce Development with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
    3. Mar 4Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
    4. Apr 8Work Session held.House of Representatives
    5. Apr 14Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
    6. Apr 14Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
    7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives