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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3729
Sponsored by Representative MCINTIRE
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: This Act says that a person does not have to do cremations at more than 1600 degrees
Fahrenheit. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or
a regional air quality control authority from requiring a person to operate a human or animal
crematory incinerator at a temperature greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to crematory incinerators; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 468A.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Department of Environ-
mental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or a regional air quality control au-
thority formed under ORS 468A.105 may not adopt or enforce any rule or standard that
requires a person to operate a human or animal crematory incinerator at a temperature
greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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 4381