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HB2004 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development.

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Fahey
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development.

Digest: Tells a state agency to conduct a study.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells a state agency to conduct a study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
  • Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-06-23 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

  3. 2025-06-23 House

    Referred to Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells a state agency to conduct a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to economic development.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2004
Sponsored by Representative FAHEY
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: Tells a state agency to conduct a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study economic development. Directs
the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to economic development.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Business Development Department shall study economic devel-
opment. 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 related 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 5004