republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2021-regular-session/hb-2343.md

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Bill	Relating to local government authority to suspend enterprise zone employment requirements; and prescribing an effective date.	Authorizes governing body of enterprise zone sponsor to adopt resolution suspending enterprise zone employment requirements otherwise imposed on authorized business firms for either or both of property tax years beginning on July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022. Requires resolution to establish direct relationship between factors showing financial distress of business firm and COVID-19 pandemic. Provides resolution may not be adopted after later of June 30 immediately preceding applicable property tax year or 45 days following effective date of Act.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2021 Regular Session	HB 2343	Oregon HB 2343 (2021 Regular Session)	bill		enacted	Daniel Bonham John Lively Lynn Findley	11	27	6	2021-01-11T15:57:04+00:00	2021-09-25T15:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fa907493-d377-4e0c-ae4d-b02e0577b740	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/Overview/HB2343	2989f982cbd7377e60e059208f0c92e490452acc02a52c371ae0edb10fabe5ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon HB 2343 (2021 Regular Session) — Relating to local government authority to suspend enterprise zone employment requirements; and prescribing an effective date.

Authorizes governing body of enterprise zone sponsor to adopt resolution suspending enterprise zone employment requirements otherwise imposed on authorized business firms for either or both of property tax years beginning on July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022. Requires resolution to establish direct relationship between factors showing financial distress of business firm and COVID-19 pandemic. Provides resolution may not be adopted after later of June 30 immediately preceding applicable property tax year or 45 days following effective date of Act.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
2. Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. C-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. HBL Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — source
7. HREV Amendment -A3 (committee substitute) — source
8. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. SFR Amendment -B4 (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Amendments to B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
11. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third reading. Carried by Findley. Passed. — 28–1 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Lively. Passed. — 59–0 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — 56–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel Bonham — primary (person)
• John Lively — primary (person)
• Lynn Findley — primary (person)
• Bobby Levy — cosponsor (person)
• Cedric Hayden — cosponsor (person)
• Christine Drazan — cosponsor (person)
• E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Kropf — cosponsor (person)
• Lily Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Ron Noble — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly Boshart Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11T15:57:04+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-20T04:40:25+00:00 Referred to Business and Labor. referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T23:16:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-04-05T22:16:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-04-07T22:17:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-04-13T18:38:58+00:00 Without recommendation as to passage, with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Revenue.
• 2021-04-13T18:38:59+00:00 Referred to Revenue by order of Speaker. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28T22:16:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-05-18T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-05-25T21:26:55+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-27T18:46:47+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2021-05-28T18:08:11+00:00 Carried over to June 1, 2021 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
• 2021-06-01T18:24:24+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Lively. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-01T18:50:32+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-06-02T23:59:05+00:00 Referred to Finance and Revenue. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09T20:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-06-14T20:01:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-06-16T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-06-21T20:45:49+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng. bill. (Printed C-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-22T16:32:33+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2021-06-23T16:54:17+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Findley. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-24T17:31:12+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
• 2021-06-25T19:30:13+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2021-06-26T17:19:39+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2021-06-23T16:55:17+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Heard.
• 2021-07-19T18:31:45+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2021-09-25T15:00:00+00:00 Chapter 522, (2021 Laws): Effective date September 25, 2021.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa907493-d377-4e0c-ae4d-b02e0577b740. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).