l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 569

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish a program to provide grants to nonprofit and community-based organizations that assist businesses owned by minority individuals to become certified by the Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity as minority-owned businesses so that the certified businesses can compete effectively for public contracts.

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.

Digest: Tells a state agency to grant money to groups that help a business to get certified as a minority owned business so it can have a better chance to get public contracts. Tells the agency to figure out how to award the grants and watch how well the groups that get the money do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to establish a program to provide grants to nonprofit and community-based organizations that assist businesses owned by minority individuals to become certified by the Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity as minority-owned businesses so that the certified businesses can compete effectively for public contracts. Requires the department to develop criteria for awarding grants and for monitoring the performance of grant recipients.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

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 SenateJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Labor and BusinessJan 17 to Apr 780 days

Ways and MeansApr 7 to Jun 27 · stopped81 days

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 Senate Jan 13 – Jun 27

  1. Jan 13Introduced
  2. Jan 17Sent to Labor and Business
  3. Jan 28Heard in Labor and Business
  4. Mar 18Heard in Labor and Business
  5. Apr 1Heard in Labor and Business
  6. Apr 7Labor and Business recommended it, 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 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Jan 17Referred to Labor and Business, then Ways and Means.Senate
  3. Jan 28Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Mar 18Public Hearing held.Senate
  5. Apr 1Work Session held.Senate
  6. Apr 7Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.Senate
  7. Apr 7Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.Senate
  8. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate