SB 1520
Plain-language analysis
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The enrolled measure authorizes the Oregon Employment Department director to implement an accounting system that tracks and segregates Paid Leave Oregon fund contributions by source (employer versus employee) to satisfy federal tax reporting requirements. The law does not alter contribution rates, benefit eligibility, or payout amounts, and takes effect ninety-one days after legislative adjournment.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary
The measure addresses IRS Revenue Ruling 2025-4, which requires states to meet employment tax and reporting obligations for leave benefits paid from employer contributions. The accounting system is designed to ensure compliance with those federal tax treatment rules.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary
The text supports no bounded hypothesis.
Must design, fund, and maintain a compliant accounting system to segregate contributions by type and generate accurate federal tax documentation. Administrative workload increases minimally.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Enrolled; Fiscal Impact Statement INTRO
Contribution percentages remain unchanged. Their payments will be tracked separately for federal tax purposes, which may alter how contributions and benefits appear on tax forms but does not change the financial obligation.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary
No change to eligibility or benefit amounts. Indirect effect through potentially updated tax reporting that clarifies the federal income and employment tax status of benefits.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary
Administrative compliance shifts to OED, which will incur minimal costs to develop the accounting rules and reporting infrastructure.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement INTRO; Revenue Impact Statement INTRO
The statute explicitly preserves existing contribution rate authority, preventing unilateral changes to employer or employee payment percentages.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Tax documentation for participants will align with federal guidance, reducing ambiguity around the treatment of employer-funded leave benefits.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary
State and Program Participants
Perfect federal tax compliance eliminates risk of IRS penalties, retroactive reassessments, or program funding disruptions, ensuring long-term stability for Paid Leave Oregon.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary
Benefit Recipients and Employers
Overly complex or delayed accounting implementation causes erroneous tax forms, processing backlogs, or misclassified payments, triggering federal filing errors and potential audit exposure for participants.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The law grants accounting and allocation authority for tax compliance only. It does not authorize rate changes or benefit restructuring. Risk arises only if future rules exceed the statutory scope or are applied inconsistently.
Sources · Enrolled
The measure secures federal tax compliance and program integrity at the cost of administrative complexity for OED, without altering the underlying economic burden on employers or employees.
Eliminates federal tax reporting gaps for employer-funded leave benefits.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary
Preserves existing contribution rates and benefit structures, maintaining program predictability.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Requires OED to develop and maintain new accounting infrastructure, creating minimal but non-zero administrative costs.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement INTRO; Revenue Impact Statement INTRO
Relies on future rulemaking to operationalize the accounting system, introducing implementation uncertainty.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The enrolled text is substantively identical to the introduced text. Both contain the same statutory amendments to ORS 657B.430, authorizing the accounting system and preserving contribution rate authority. Differences are purely procedural: removal of editorial notes, formatting adjustments, addition of legislative signatures, and final enrollment certification.
No substantive legal changes between versions.
neutral
Sources · Introduced; Enrolled
Procedural finalization and signature blocks added in the enrolled version.
neutral
Sources · Enrolled
Tradeoff: The measure secures federal tax compliance and program integrity at the cost of administrative complexity for OED, without altering the underlying economic burden on employers or employees.
high confidence. The enrolled bill text is explicit regarding accounting authority, rate preservation, and effective date. Official staff summaries directly link the measure to IRS Revenue Ruling 2025-4 compliance. Fiscal offices confirm minimal impact.
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Introduced bill text posted
Posted Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM PST
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Selected document summary
Oregon records no individual sponsors.
Presession filing record
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President.
LC 220 draft
Date printed on LC draft: January 9, 2026
LC 220 became SB 1520
Mapping document posted: January 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM PST
LC0220_DRAFT_2026_Regular_Session
Senate Interim Committee on Labor and Business introduction work session
Committee meeting: January 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM PST
HR B
Committee introduction motion
Committee meeting: January 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM PST
A motion was made to adopt the listed legislative concepts as committee bills.
Official vote: 5-0-0
Committee introduction allows consideration; it does not imply every member supported the introduced or final text.
Senate carrier
Senator Cedric Hayden
Third Reading Of Senate Measures
House carrier
Representative Dacia Grayber
Third Reading Of Senate Bills
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68% confidence · deterministic fallback
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Effective on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Chapter 3, 2026 Laws.
Governor signed.
Speaker signed.
President signed.
Third reading. Carried by Grayber. Passed.
Ayes, 40; Excused, 18--Boice, Boshart Davis, Breese-Iverson, Diehl, Hartman, Helfrich, Levy B, Lewis, Lively, Nelson, Osborne, Skarlatos, Tran, Valderrama, Wallan, Watanabe, Wright, Yunker; Excused for Business of the House, 2--Bowman, Speaker Fahey.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 2 · Room HR 60 · Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 1 · Room HR 60 · Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.
Referred to Labor and Workforce Development.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed.
Ayes, 29; Excused, 1--Drazan.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass.
Public Hearing and Work Session held.
Public Hearing and Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 4 · Room HR E · Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.
IS_Impact SB 1520 INTRO
Revenue Impact Statement
Informational Meeting held.
Informational Meeting
Heard · Agenda item 7 · Room HR E · Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.
Referred to Labor and Business.
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
introduced in the U.S. Congress EFFECT OF AMENDMENT: No amendment. BACKGROUND: Senate Bill 1520 (2024) established a personal state income tax subtraction for amounts received
ure funding for wildfire victims EFFECT OF AMENDMENT: No amendment. BACKGROUND: Senate Bill 1520 (2024) established a personal income tax subtraction in Oregon for any amount r
build in the years since; and Whereas in 2024, the Legislative Assembly passed Senate Bill 1520 to create vital tax relief for wildfire victims in Oregon and to protect those
federal taxation on liability settlements arising from wildfires; and Whereas Senate Bill 1520 ensured that those liability settlements would be used to aid in crucial wildfi
ild in the years since; and 18 Whereas in 2024, the Legislative Assembly passed Senate Bill 1520 to create vital tax relief for 19 wildfire victims in Oregon and to protect tho
lief payments that provided the much-needed companion relief to that granted by Senate Bill 1520, but the tax cuts in H.R. 5863 expired at the end of 2025; now, therefore, Be
ral taxation on liability 20 settlements arising from wildfires; and 21 Whereas Senate Bill 1520 ensured that those liability settlements would be used to aid in crucial 22 wil
ates to sign, legislation to permanently extend the federal companion relief to Senate Bill 1520 (2024) that was created by H.R. 5863 (2024); and be it further Resolved, That
f payments that provided the much-needed companion relief 26 to that granted by Senate Bill 1520, but the tax cuts in H.R. 5863 expired at the end of 2025; now, 27 therefore, 2
es to sign, legislation 3 to permanently extend the federal companion relief to Senate Bill 1520 (2024) that was created by 4 H.R. 5863 (2024); and be it further 5 Resolved, Th
“Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.”
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