The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Oregon
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Bill as introduced (LC 1862); never enacted
- Issued
- 2021-01-11 Jan. 11, 2021
- Effective
- never; referred to House Judiciary Jan. 19, 2021; assigned to the Subcommittee on Civil Law Jan. 29, 2021; public hearing Feb. 24, 2021; motion to withdraw from committee failed May 26, 2021 (read as 2021-01-19)
- End
- died in committee upon adjournment, June 26, 2021 (read as 2021-06-26)
- In force
- Jan. 19, 2021 to June 26, 2021
- Limitation types
- Operating conditionOther
- Addressees
- would have applied to any 'person' engaged in 'professional or business activities'
- Character
- not enacted
- Collection
- Standing duties: Oregon DUT-OR
Operative words
(2)(a) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a person is not liable for damages arising out of acts or omissions taken during the COVID-19 emergency period in reasonable compliance with guidance that is applicable to the person's professional or business activities.... (d) "Guidance" means executive orders, federal guidelines, state rules, local rules and state informational
Penalty
What it required
Nothing: the bill was never enacted. It records that the only general COVID-19 liability shield proposed for Oregon businesses would have protected only conduct 'in reasonable compliance with guidance,' defining 'guidance' to include executive orders, State rules, local rules and 'state informational materials... regardless of whether the materials are the product of standard rulemaking processes' (sec. 1(d), (g)), and that the Legislature declined even that; Oregon employers therefore stood under the ordinary negligence standard for the whole period, the standard for which a governmentally prescribed safeguard is the measure of due care (Shahtout, DUT-OR-019). Character as recorded: not_enacted (legislative history; no legal effect).
Retrieval noteIntroduced text from the Oregon Legislative Information System (2 pages). Measure history from the Legislature's OData service (api.oregonlegislature.gov), read Sept. 29, 2026: first reading Jan. 11, 2021; referred to Judiciary Jan. 19; assigned to Subcommittee on Civil Law Jan. 29; public hearing Feb. 24; motion to withdraw from Judiciary failed May 26; 'In committee upon adjournment' June 26, 2021. Recorded, as the California file records AB 1035, to establish the absence of a general shield; it is not pleaded as law.