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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 482
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (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 says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make
the rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to administrative rules.
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 183.
SECTION 2. An agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority to adopt the
rules.
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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