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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2981
Sponsored by Representatives HELM, OWENS (Presession filed.)
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: The Act tells an agency to study aquatic invasive species. The Act tells the agency to
report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study aquatic invasive species. Directs the
department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to na-
tural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to aquatic invasive species.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall study aquatic invasive spe-
cies. The department shall submit a report on the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to natural resources 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 Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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 2011