At the Oregon Legislature
The 2025 long session of the Oregon Legislature failed to address any of the technical errors in HB 4024 (2024), which was enacted with great urgency in the last days of the short 2024 session. Honest Elections Oregon (HEO) memoranda describing technical fixes are in this folder:
Correcting Technical Errors in HB 4024
We will go back to the Oregon Legislature in its February 2026 short session and seek to correct the ambiguities in HB 4024. We expect the opponents of campaign finance reform (big money interests) to again try to delay the effective dates of HB 4024 by many additional years, as they tried in the 2025 session.
More Details about the Oregon Legislature in 2025
At the Oregon Secretary of State
Many of the ambiguities in HB 4024 could be clarified by the adoption of clear rules by the Secretary of State. Secretary Tobias Read issued draft rules to implement HB 4024 on May 1, 2025 and again on September 15, 2025. Honest Elections Oregon filed extensive comments over the summer, almost none of which were reflected in the revised September 15 draft rules. We filed an additional 100 pages or so of comments on the September draft rules in October and November 2025. Those draft rules definitely do not correctly implement HB 4024 and introduce many additional problems.
More Details about the Defective Rules Proposed by the Secretary of State
The 2025 long session of the Oregon Legislature failed to address any of the technical errors in HB 4024 (2024), which was enacted with great urgency in the last days of the short 2024 session. Honest Elections Oregon (HEO) memoranda describing technical fixes are in this folder:
Correcting Technical Errors in HB 4024
We will go back to the Oregon Legislature in its February 2026 short session and seek to correct the ambiguities in HB 4024. We expect the opponents of campaign finance reform (big money interests) to again try to delay the effective dates of HB 4024 by many additional years, as they tried in the 2025 session.
More Details about the Oregon Legislature in 2025
At the Oregon Secretary of State
Many of the ambiguities in HB 4024 could be clarified by the adoption of clear rules by the Secretary of State. Secretary Tobias Read issued draft rules to implement HB 4024 on May 1, 2025 and again on September 15, 2025. Honest Elections Oregon filed extensive comments over the summer, almost none of which were reflected in the revised September 15 draft rules. We filed an additional 100 pages or so of comments on the September draft rules in October and November 2025. Those draft rules definitely do not correctly implement HB 4024 and introduce many additional problems.
More Details about the Defective Rules Proposed by the Secretary of State
