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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to deductions from employee wages."
+description: "Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
+legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
+session: "2025R1"
+identifier: "SB 968"
+citation: "Oregon SB 968 (2025R1)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Taylor"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-30T19:30:02+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-08-08T15:10:01+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6d8c48d-1398-4915-a65b-283ac2d396c3"
+source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB968"
+source_hash: "79e381b6032beaca34f414f9d79fb0466e1a8eeecfa51505e10f7f3b16b675f3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
+---
+
+# Oregon SB 968 (2025R1) — Relating to deductions from employee wages.
+
+Provides conditions and procedures under which a public employer may deduct amounts of erroneous overpayments from a public employee's wages.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/Introduced)
+2. **Senate Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
+3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/A-Engrossed)
+4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/B-Engrossed)
+5. **JWM Amendment -A7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/29568)
+6. **SLB Amendment -5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/28256)
+7. **Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20A-Engrossed)
+8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB968/Enrolled)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **42–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third reading. Carried by Grayber. Passed. — **34–14** (pass) · lower
+- Third reading. Carried by Taylor. Passed. — **21–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kathleen Taylor — primary (person)
+- Courtney Neron Misslin — cosponsor (person)
+- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kayse Jama — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Meek — cosponsor (person)
+- Sen Woods — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-30T19:30:02+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30T19:45:11+00:00** Referred to Labor and Business. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13T15:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
+- **2025-04-08T15:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-03-25T15:01:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-04-17T16:08:46+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-17T16:08:47+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-29T23:10:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Transportation and Economic Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-04T23:03:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
+- **2025-06-04T23:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-06-13T16:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-06-16T20:49:10+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-17T18:21:19+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-18T19:16:07+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Taylor. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18T20:33:51+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-18T20:57:24+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-19T00:50:53+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-18T19:17:07+00:00** Vote explanation(s) filed by Robinson.
+- **2025-06-19T19:03:03+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-20T21:29:17+00:00** Rules suspended. Carried over to June 23, 2025 Calendar.
+- **2025-06-23T23:30:38+00:00** Rules suspended. Carried over to June 24, 2025 Calendar.
+- **2025-06-24T21:02:17+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Grayber. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-25T23:07:13+00:00** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-06-26T16:37:09+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-07-24T21:34:59+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08T15:06:12+00:00** Chapter 602, 2025 Laws.
+- **2025-08-08T15:10:01+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2026.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6d8c48d-1398-4915-a65b-283ac2d396c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).
+