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| Bill | Relating to work performed by a landscape contracting business; and prescribing an effective date. | Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying. Exempts persons or businesses who are licensed with the Construction Contractors Board and who install ornamental water features from a requirement to obtain a landscape contractors license. Removes the requirement that a person who intends to rescind a contract with a landscape contracting business for work on real property own or lease the real property. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. | us/states/or | Oregon Legislative Assembly | 2025R1 | SB 865 | Oregon SB 865 (2025R1) |
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enacted | 2 | 22 | 4 | 2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00 | 2025-06-06T23:10:19+00:00 | openstates | ocd-bill/2ec9cfc0-d760-4bb9-9f3d-7fcb1e8a1093 | https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB865 | 0c1d38398daed278de137358001a338d3837723b849dcd35b33f5cd80efdaf1a | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Oregon SB 865 (2025R1) — Relating to work performed by a landscape contracting business; and prescribing an effective date.
Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying. Exempts persons or businesses who are licensed with the Construction Contractors Board and who install ornamental water features from a requirement to obtain a landscape contractors license. Removes the requirement that a person who intends to rescind a contract with a landscape contracting business for work on real property own or lease the real property. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed. — 29–1 (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out — 4–0 (pass) · upper
- Third reading. Carried by Fragala. Passed. — 50–3 (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
introduction, reading-1, referral-committee - 2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00 Referred to Labor and Business.
referral-committee - 2025-02-11T16:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
- 2025-02-13T16:01:00+00:00 Work Session cancelled.
- 2025-02-25T16:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
- 2025-03-04T17:32:24+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass.
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-04T19:17:37+00:00 Second reading.
reading-2 - 2025-03-06T20:08:08+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed.
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-10T18:47:36+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
introduction, reading-1, referral-committee - 2025-03-13T22:15:18+00:00 Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.
referral-committee - 2025-04-23T22:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
- 2025-05-05T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
- 2025-05-09T02:01:39+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass.
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-05-12T18:44:56+00:00 Second reading.
reading-2 - 2025-05-13T19:21:05+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to May 14, 2025 Calendar.
- 2025-05-14T19:43:54+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to May 15, 2025 Calendar.
- 2025-05-15T19:25:07+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Fragala. Passed.
passage, reading-3 - 2025-05-19T19:36:04+00:00 President signed.
passage - 2025-05-20T17:35:37+00:00 Speaker signed.
passage - 2025-05-28T00:03:09+00:00 Governor signed.
executive-signature - 2025-06-06T22:01:42+00:00 Chapter 181, 2025 Laws.
- 2025-06-06T23:10:19+00:00 Effective on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ec9cfc0-d760-4bb9-9f3d-7fcb1e8a1093. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).