Senate Bill 686

<b>Digest: Requires a covered platform to have an agreement in order to access the online content of a news provider. Creates a group for civic information to give grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).</b> [<i>Digest: Makes online platforms pay online news providers and a group for civic information. Creates a group for civic information to give grants. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).</i>] [<i>Requires online platforms to pay moneys to digital journalism providers and the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Allows an online platform to use an arbitration process to determine the percentage of an online platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to digital journalism providers.</i>] <b>Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement. Specifies requirements that an agreement must meet. <b>Creates a private cause of action that a digital journalism provider may bring against a covered platform if the covered platform accesses for an Oregon audience the online content of the digital journalism provider without an agreement or fails to comply with an agreement. Allows for the recovery of the greater of statutory or actual damages, and for punitive damages. <b>Bars a cause of action if the covered platform is participating in arbitration or in compliance with a final arbitration order, judgment or settlement agreement. Bars a cause of action for access that occurs between January 1, 2026, and December 31, 2027, if the covered platform elects to pay a certain sum amount. <b>Allows a covered platform or group of digital journalism providers to initiate an arbitration process to determine a percentage of the covered platform's advertising revenue to be remitted to the digital journalism providers.</b> Requires online platforms to report annually certain information about compensation paid to digital journalism providers. Establishes the Oregon Civic Information Consortium. Directs the consortium to award grants for applicants that seek to improve civic information.

In the Senate

• Khanh Pham

  Sponsor

• Sara Gelser Blouin, James Manning Jr., Lew Frederick, Lisa Reynolds, Chris Gorsek, Jeff Golden

  Chief co-sponsors

In the House of Representatives

• Jules Walters

  Sponsor

• Senate, third reading14–15

  Failed · Jun 24 · 1 present

• Senate, third reading18–11

  Jun 24 · 1 present

• Rules19–10

  Jun 24 · 1 present

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jun 6

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jun 20

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In the Senate Jan 13 – Jun 27

1. Jan 13Introduced
2. Jan 17Sent to Rules
3. Apr 9Heard in Rules
4. Apr 23Heard in Rules
5. May 5Heard in Rules
6. Jun 6Rules recommended it as amended
7. Jun 9Read a second time
8. Jun 10Sent to Rules
9. Jun 11Heard in Rules
10. Jun 20Rules recommended it as amended
11. Jun 23Read a second time
12. Jun 24Failed in the Senate, 14 to 15
13. Sent to Rules
14. Jun 27Died when the session ended