ACTION ALERT: Oppose HB 3392 - Don't Delay Campaign Finance Reform

Date: June 25, 2025

To: All LWVOR Members

From: Lisa Bentson, LWVOR President

Norman Turrill, Governance Coordinator

TAKE ACTION: Please contact all your House and Senate members, particularly members of the Senate Committee on Rules, to urge them to oppose HB 3392 on campaign finance reform, as amended. A last-minute backroom deal has apparently been made to exchange Republican votes for the Transportation Bill for Democratic votes to delay the implementation of HB 4024 (2024) for four years (and probably kill it in a future legislative session). Recall that HB 4024 was the CFR bill passed last year in exchange for dropping Initiative Petition 9.

Request:

We are asking all Oregon League members to ask their legislators to oppose HB 3392 as amended, and particularly ask members of the Senate Rules Committee. It would be better to pass no bill on this subject rather than break the historic 2024 deal that was made among the Honest Elections Coalition (of which the LWVOR is a member), union leaders, business leaders and legislative leaders. Honest Elections Oregon agreed during the 2024 session to drop Initiative Petition 9 in exchange for the passage of HB 4024. In the longer term, we fear this may be the first step to gutting or repealing HB 4024. House Rules held a public hearing at 8 am on June 25.

Testimony is important to show that the public is watching, even if you file it within 48 hours after the hearing. The bill will still need to go through the Senate Rules Committee in the next few days, and written testimony will also be important there.

“We appear to be confronted with a secret, literally last-minute backroom deal to avoid all campaign contribution limits – and requirements for disclosure of the sources of campaign funds—until 2031, if not forever,” said Jason Kafoury, of the group Honest Elections Oregon. “This is against what the vast majority of Oregonians have voted for at every opportunity.”

House Bill 3392 was scheduled to get its first public hearing in House Rules Wednesday at 8 a.m., less than 24 hours after any actual bill language was posted to the Oregon Legislature’s website for the public to review. The committee had also scheduled a work session for the same day, which means that they are not serious about listening to any input from the public.

See OPB and Capital Chronicle articles on this bill. Find your legislators here.

League Position:

See the LWVUS Position on Money in Politics, page 48, Impact on Issues.

Deadline: ASAP

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