---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency."
description: "Eliminates requirement that Emergency Board or Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means make certain recommendations to Legislative Assembly regarding rental costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 2975"
citation: "Oregon HB 2975 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-18T17:02:51+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-19T20:33:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58978ce3-028b-43de-a628-431afb3f5bf1"
source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/HB2975"
source_hash: "bc6232daa079c595ba633a2398dd620bd7beb12dfcafe3fd5dbf746463fa31cd"
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 HB 2975 (2019 Regular Session) — Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency.

Eliminates requirement that Emergency Board or Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means make certain recommendations to Legislative Assembly regarding rental costs.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2975/House Amendments to Introduced)
2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2975/Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2975/A-Engrossed)
4. **JWM Amendment -1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/13950)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2975/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Third reading. Carried by Rayfield. Passed. — **36–23** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Johnson. Passed. — **18–11** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-18T17:02:51+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18T20:06:51+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18T20:58:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Capital Construction. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22T20:03:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
- **2019-02-22T20:02:00+00:00** Public Hearing and Work Session held.
- **2019-03-01T17:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-03-07T23:06:11+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11T18:16:33+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-03-12T18:34:40+00:00** Rules suspended. Carried over to March 13, 2019 Calendar.
- **2019-03-13T18:21:32+00:00** Rules suspended. Carried over to March 14, 2019 Calendar.
- **2019-03-14T18:39:01+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Rayfield. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14T18:40:01+00:00** Vote explanation(s) filed by Bynum, Leif, Mitchell, Neron, Sollman, Williams.
- **2019-03-18T16:12:54+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21T16:14:44+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28T15:41:56+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28T17:55:21+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-04-01T18:59:07+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Johnson. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02T20:27:55+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-03T16:52:27+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-10T21:30:35+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-19T20:33:35+00:00** Chapter 20, (2019 Laws): Effective date April 10, 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58978ce3-028b-43de-a628-431afb3f5bf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).