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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 865

Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying.

Became law as Chapter 181, Oregon Laws 2025, signed May 27, 2025, 134 days after it was filed.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: Adds some new kinds of work to the work that a person can do only if the person has a license from the State Landscape Contractors Board. Lets a person install water features without needing a license from the State Landscape Contractors Board if the person has a license from the Construction Contractors Board. Lets a person get out of a contract for landscape work on real property within three days even if the person does not own or lease the real property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying. Exempts persons or businesses who are licensed with the Construction Contractors Board and who install ornamental water features from a requirement to obtain a landscape contractors license. Removes the requirement that a person who intends to rescind a contract with a landscape contracting business for work on real property own or lease the real property. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Its course

January 13 to June 6, 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 action22 actions on 20 days

In the SenateJan 13 to Mar 652 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Labor and BusinessJan 17 to Mar 446 days

In the House of RepresentativesMar 6 to May 1570 days

Waiting for a committeeMar 6 to Mar 137 days

Labor and Workplace StandardsMar 13 to May 856 days

With the GovernorMay 15 to May 2712 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • Senate, third reading29–1

    Passed · Mar 6

  • House of Representatives, third reading50–3

    Passed · May 15 · 6 present

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

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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 – Mar 6

  1. Jan 13Introduced
  2. Jan 17Sent to Labor and Business
  3. Feb 11Heard in Labor and Business
  4. Feb 25Heard in Labor and Business
  5. Mar 4Labor and Business recommended it
  6. Read a second time
  7. Mar 6Passed the Senate, 29 to 1

In the House of Representatives Mar 10 – May 15

  1. Mar 10Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Mar 13Sent to Labor and Workplace Standards
  3. Apr 23Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  4. May 5Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
  5. May 8Labor and Workplace Standards recommended it
  6. May 12Read a second time
  7. May 15Passed the House of Representatives, 50 to 3

To the Governor May 19 – Jun 6

  1. May 19Signed in the Senate
  2. May 20Signed in the House of Representatives
  3. May 27Signed by the Governor
  4. Jun 6Became chapter 181 of Oregon Laws 2025
All 22 actions, as published
  1. Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Jan 17Referred to Labor and Business.Senate
  3. Feb 11Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Feb 13Work Session cancelled.Senate
  5. Feb 25Work Session held.Senate
  6. Mar 4Recommendation: Do pass.Senate
  7. Mar 4Second reading.Senate
  8. Mar 6Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed.Senate
  9. Mar 10First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  10. Mar 13Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.House of Representatives
  11. Apr 23Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  12. May 5Work Session held.House of Representatives
  13. May 8Recommendation: Do pass.House of Representatives
  14. May 12Second reading.House of Representatives
  15. May 13Rules suspended. Carried over to May 14, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
  16. May 14Rules suspended. Carried over to May 15, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
  17. May 15Third reading. Carried by Fragala. Passed.House of Representatives
  18. May 19President signed.Senate
  19. May 20Speaker signed.House of Representatives
  20. May 27Governor signed.Senate
  21. Jun 6Chapter 181, 2025 Laws.Senate
  22. Jun 6Effective on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.Senate