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D Oregon House · District 39

Rep. April Dobson

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Total votes
1,179
all sessions
Attendance
92%
84 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
97%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
88
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
2
assignments
88 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
88
Primary
21
Co-sponsor
67
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Co-sponsor HB 3079
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to youth homelessness.

Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs. Requires the Department of Human Services and the Housing and Community Services Department to study options for allocating 30 percent of their respective budgets in the 2027-2029 biennium toward reducing the number of youth aging into adult homelessness. Directs the Department of Human Services to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing and human services not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Expands eligibility for emergency housing.

In committee Jun 28, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3954
Passed · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to the Oregon National Guard.

Prohibits the Adjutant General from assisting or allowing the United States Department of Defense or any branch thereof to communicate with any individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard for purposes of calling the individual or unit into active service unless the active service is for a certain listed reason. Prohibits the Adjutant General from allowing an individual or unit of the Oregon National Guard to be called into active service if the call into active service results in the Oregon National Guard being incapable of responding to a statewide emergency. [ Directs that an Adjutant General be immediately dismissed for violations of the Act. ].

Passed Jun 28, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3807
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to interscholastic activities; declaring an emergency.

Prescribes requirements that an organization that administers interscholastic activities, or that facilitates the scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities, must implement to address discriminatory harassment or bullying behavior. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

In committee Jun 28, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3076
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to gun dealer licenses; prescribing an effective date.

] Establishes a state gun dealer licensing program. Requires a license for specified dealers selling firearms, frames, receivers and unfinished frames and receivers beginning [ January ] July 1, 2027, [ or October 15, 2027, for certain federal firearms licensees ] and for all other dealers, beginning July 1, 2028 . Authorizes the Department of Justice to establish licensing fees. Specifies eligibility criteria for obtaining the license. Directs the department to conduct licensee inspections. Specifies circumstances that result in license suspension or revocation or the imposition of a civil penalty. Directs the department to adopt rules concerning licensee employee training, the storage of firearms and ammunition by licensees and other security requirements. Requires licensee employee background checks and specifies requirements for recordkeeping. Punishes the selling of a firearm by a dealer without a license by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Directs the department to submit an annual report on the licensing program to the Legislative Assembly. Establishes the Firearm Dealer License Fund. Requires a transferor at a gun show to hold a state license. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice for the licensing program. [ Declares an emergency, effective on passage. ] Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Jun 28, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 3839
In committee · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to sex offender information.

Directs the Department of State Police to ensure that level one and level two sex offender information is available to school districts and entities providing school visitor management services.

In committee Jun 28, 2025 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 3789
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to union misrepresentation.

Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative. Provides that a labor organization shall have, as a matter of internal governance, the sole authority to identify and designate the union representatives associated with the labor organization. Provides a cause of action for a union representative alleging a violation of the prohibition against falsely impersonating a union representative.

Signed into law Jun 24, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 470
Signed into law · Oregon Senate · Co-sponsor
Relating to recordings of occupants of transient lodging; and prescribing an effective date.

] [ Prohibits a transient lodging provider and a transient lodging intermediary from making, storing, transmitting or transferring an audio or video recording of an occupant of transient lodging in any space within the transient lodging in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishes violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. ] Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Jun 20, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2008
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to consumer protection.

Prohibits controllers from processing personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or selling personal data that pertains to a consumer, if the controller has actual knowledge, or disregards knowledge of whether, a consumer is under 16 years of age or if the personal data accurately identifies within a radius of 1,750 feet a consumer's present or past location or the present or past location of a device that links or is linkable to the consumer. Exempts from the sales prohibition the content of communications or personal data that is generated by or connected to certain systems or equipment that utilities use.

Signed into law Jun 20, 2025 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 550
Signed into law · Oregon Senate · Co-sponsor
Relating to a right to repair consumer equipment.

Adds electric wheelchairs and complex rehabilitation technology to the type of consumer equipment for which an original equipment manufacturer must make available to an owner or independent repair provider a tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating consumer equipment.

Signed into law Jun 20, 2025 1 co-sponsor
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