republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2023r1/hb-2805.md

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Bill	Relating to public meetings; and prescribing an effective date.	Provides that use of serial electronic written communication or use of intermediaries to communicate may constitute meeting of governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied. Provides that public meetings law does not apply to communications that are purely factual or educational, that are unrelated to any matter that governing body could foreseeably deliberate on or decide or that are nonsubstantive in nature.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2023R1	HB 2805	Oregon HB 2805 (2023R1)	bill		enacted	Courtney Neron Lily Morgan Nathan Sosa	8	27	6	2023-01-09T16:13:56+00:00	2023-08-04T19:09:04+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bef8cd63-5f89-4d18-9f67-fe6f9c25a7f6	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Measures/Overview/HB2805	5214d079bc6d7623aea9fed3256107cadf0b05753c006b50f7c478002af0948d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon HB 2805 (2023R1) — Relating to public meetings; and prescribing an effective date.

Provides that use of serial electronic written communication or use of intermediaries to communicate may constitute meeting of governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied. Provides that public meetings law does not apply to communications that are purely factual or educational, that are unrelated to any matter that governing body could foreseeably deliberate on or decide or that are nonsubstantive in nature.

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. JWM Amendment -1 (committee substitute) — source
6. JWM Amendment -A2 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 21–1 (pass) · legislature
• Third reading. Carried by Sosa. Passed. — 45–7 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 18–2 (pass) · legislature
• House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — 47–3 (pass) · lower
• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Campos. Passed. — 19–6 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Courtney Neron — primary (person)
• Lily Morgan — primary (person)
• Nathan Sosa — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-09T16:13:56+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-12T19:19:20+00:00 Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans. referral-committee
• 2023-02-14T21:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2023-03-14T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2023-03-23T13:21:30+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23T13:21:31+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker. referral-committee
• 2023-05-25T22:01:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2023-05-22T16:39:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On General Government. referral-committee
• 2023-05-30T22:03:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
• 2023-05-30T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2023-06-02T16:32:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2023-06-05T22:42:32+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-07T18:26:35+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2023-06-07T19:38:06+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to June 8, 2023 Calendar.
• 2023-06-08T18:53:06+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Sosa. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-06-15T18:26:05+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-06-15T23:40:43+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2023-06-23T16:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2023-06-23T23:40:46+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill to resolve conflicts. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-24T21:13:50+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2023-06-24T23:22:20+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Campos. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-06-25T18:42:47+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
• 2023-06-29T18:11:08+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2023-06-29T20:11:41+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2023-07-27T22:17:02+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2023-08-04T19:09:04+00:00 Chapter 417, (2023 Laws): Effective date September 24, 2023.
• 2023-06-24T23:23:20+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Smith DB.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bef8cd63-5f89-4d18-9f67-fe6f9c25a7f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).