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House Bill 2019: designates Aug. 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day. Vice Chair Draesen moved the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Roll call recorded the following votes: Representative Elmer (yes), Representative Pruss (yes), Representative Alderman (yes), Vice Chair Drazen (aye), Vice Chair Pham (yes), Chair Bowman (aye). Motion passed; Representative Elmer listed as carrier.

House Bill 3643: designates Oct. 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day. Vice Chair Drazen moved the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Roll call recorded the following votes: Representative Bossard Davis (yes), Representative Elmer (yes), Representative Prepp (yes), Representative Valderrama (yes), Vice Chair Dreesen (aye), Vice Chair Pham (yes), Chair Bowman (aye). Motion passed; Representative Elmer named carrier.

House Bill 3768: designates March 21 of each year as Nowru's Day, with an emergency clause effective on passage. Vice Chair Dreesen moved the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Roll call recorded: Representative Valderrama (yes), Vice Chair Regan (aye), Vice Chair Pham (yes), Chair Bowman (aye). Motion passed; Representative Chi Chi listed as carrier.

Ending: All three designation bills were advanced to the House floor with due‑pass recommendations and assigned carriers; the committee adjourned following the votes.

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\"I'm here to introduce House Bill 38 0 3, a good governance policy package,\" Graber told the committee, outlining five core concepts: enterprise strategic workforce planning led by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS), standardized reporting for direct appropriations to private nonprofit and nongovernmental entities, a legislative key performance measure (KPM) council, a small‑agency audit team within the Secretary of State's audits division, and standardized definitions for common agency functions.

Graber and DAS officials said the bill builds on prior Secretary of State audit recommendations and existing DAS work. Barry Leslie, director of the Department of Administrative Services, said the workforce pieces align with work DAS had begun and that codifying enterprise workforce planning would help sustain the effort across administrations. \"When they work well, are really, really important,\" Leslie said, adding the department is \"really pleased to support that.\"

The bill would require DAS to produce an enterprise strategic workforce plan every four years, and agencies would be asked to develop agency plans aligned to that enterprise strategy. Committee testimony framed the aims as improving recruitment, retention, succession planning, and more effective deployment of permanent staff rather than reducing pay or imposing layoffs.

On reporting, the bill would require recipients of direct legislative appropriations to submit a lightweight report every two years describing broadly how those funds were spent, with DAS making aggregated, privacy‑filtered data available on the state transparency website for legislative budget makers and auditors. Graber said DAS would create rules to avoid duplicative reporting.

The bill also would convene a legislative KPM council every four years to align legislative performance measures with agency KPMs and to recommend how legislative offices engage with KPMs earlier in the policy process.

Section 15 (as discussed in testimony) would create a small‑agency audit team to focus on entities with fewer than 75 employees or entities not audited in more than 10 years. Ricardo Lujan Valerio of the Secretary of State's office said the audits division supports that concept and would integrate the work into its risk‑based audit planning, with fee assessments used to cover costs as is current practice.

Labor and state employee groups endorsed the bill's workforce planning provisions. Lamar Wise, political director for Oregon AFSCME, said the bill would include worker voices and help retain experienced staff and recruit future public servants.

Graber noted a dash‑1 amendment that exempts constitutionally independent offices from the DAS workforce planning requirement, aligns workforce plan timing to the second year of the governor's term, ensures labor input, and changes proposed task forces to directives or councils. Committee members asked about separation‑of‑powers concerns; Graber said the bill was reviewed with the governor's staff and other nonpartisan offices, and the dash‑1 amendment was intended to address constitutional concerns.

No final committee vote on House Bill 3803 occurred at this meeting; the committee held the public hearing and moved on to work sessions.

Ending: Representative Graber said she welcomes feedback and collaboration; the committee closed the public hearing and will consider amendments and next steps in subsequent committee work.

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The proposal was presented by Sal Peralta, secretary of the Independent Party of Oregon, and Dan Meek, a party member who does legal work for the party. \"This is probably the shortest bill you'll ever encounter as a legislator,\" Peralta told the committee, summarizing that the bill \"raises the threshold for major party status from 5% to 10% of registered voters.\" Meek described operational problems the Independent Party faces under current law and said the party is on the verge of being treated as a major party under the existing 5 percent rule.

The Independent Party leaders told the committee that, as of March 2025, the party had about 153,000 registered members (roughly 5.04 percent of Oregon registrants under the figures they gave), and that the statutory measurement for party status occurs on the 270th day before the primary (the next measurement cited was Aug. 17, 2025). They said major‑party designation triggers rules that have hindered the party's ability to run or nominate candidates, notably a 250‑day membership requirement for candidates seeking to run in a major‑party primary and a write‑in winner rule that has allowed nonparty candidates to prevail in primaries in prior cycles.

Rochelle Long, speaking for the Association of County Clerks (testimony identified as neutral), told the committee that adding a major party historically increases complexity, time and cost for county election offices. \"When there is an added party, which was in 2018, . . . that added time and cost to go back and count write ins even though there were candidates on the ballot,\" Long said, describing confusion among voters and the extra counting workload counties experienced in prior cycles.

Ricardo Lujan Valerio, deputy chief of staff for government relations at the Secretary of State's office, told the committee the office plans to convene an interim work group on these issues. \"We have indicated that we will be conducting an interim work group to address a lot of the topics that were discussed today,\" he said, and he warned that adding any party to the funded process would have administrative and fiscal implications for state and county election operations.

Committee members asked whether lowering the threshold might be preferable, how often the Independent Party actually fields its own candidates versus cross‑nominating major‑party nominees, and whether the change would be fair to other minor parties. Peralta and Meek said their intent is not to permanently prevent the party from ever becoming a major party, but to provide a longer runway to review and reform statutes that apply differently to smaller or emerging parties. Meek recounted that the Independent Party has alternated between major and minor status in recent cycles and said that status changes have produced operational difficulties in prior elections.

No formal legislative action or vote on House Bill 3908 occurred during the committee meeting; the committee held the public hearing and closed it later in the session.

Ending: The committee closed the public hearing and moved on to other agenda items. The Secretary of State's office said it will invite stakeholders, including committee members, to participate in the planned interim work group and will provide further information on potential cost implications.

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House Rules Committee advances three ceremonial designation bills to the floor

Representative Graber unveils governance package to standardize workforce planning, reporting and small‑agency audits

Bill would raise Oregon major‑party threshold from 5% to 10% as Independent Party grows