l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 87

Permits the Electrical and Elevator Board to enter into agreements with municipalities to share responsibility for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law.

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: Lets a state agency agree with a local agency how to share duties for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law. Sets higher fines for not obeying the building code. Lets the state agency that governs contractors keep more of the money it collects as fines for breaking the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Permits the Electrical and Elevator Board to enter into agreements with municipalities to share responsibility for enforcing the Electrical Safety Law. Permits the Construction Contractors Board to retain a higher percentage of the proceeds of civil penalties the Construction Contractors Board imposes. Raises the amount of a civil penalty that the Department of Consumer and Business Services may impose for a violation of the state building code from $5,000 per violation to $7,500.

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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the SenateJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Labor and BusinessJan 17 to Feb 1024 days

Ways and MeansFeb 10 to Jun 27 · stopped137 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. Feb 4Heard in Labor and Business
  4. Feb 6Heard in Labor and Business
  5. Feb 10Labor and Business recommended it, 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. Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Jan 17Referred to Labor and Business.Senate
  3. Feb 4Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Feb 6Work Session held.Senate
  5. Feb 10Recommendation: Do Pass and be referred to Ways and Means.Senate
  6. Feb 10Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President.Senate
  7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate