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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2279
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade for Representative Daniel Nguyen)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Makes the OBDD do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch
Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study utilities. Directs the depart-
ment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic
development not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to utilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Oregon Business Development Department shall study utilities. The
department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3222