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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3784
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENT (at the request of Representative
JohnLively)
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 requires the DEQ to study and make a report on the environment. (Flesch
Readability Score: 71.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the environment. Directs the de-
partment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the
environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the environment.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall study the environment. 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 the environment 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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.
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