Oregon House Bill 4111, effective June 5, 2026, reflects Oregon’s continued shift toward protecting immigrant workers by limiting how a change in immigration status can be used in the workplace and how undocumented status can be used in litigation, while explicitly integrating these protections into the state’s existing employment discrimination framework under Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Chapter 659A. The law creates a clear prohibition on employers’ taking adverse action against employees who update—or attempt to update—their “personal information” following a lawful change in work authorization status, effectively recognizing such updates as a protected activity. This measure is designed to ensure that workers are not penalized for maintaining compliance with federal law or for improving their legal status, while still preserving employers’ ability to meet federal employment verification requirements.
While the phrase “personal information following a lawful change in work authorization status” is not defined, a similar law in California, which also uses the phrase “personal information,” provides insight into the meaning of this phrase. In 2015, the California legislature amended the law to define “personal information” as “name” and “Social Security number.” The California amendment is instructive for how Oregon might apply meaning to the phrase.
Legal Effects of New Legislation
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