HB2102 • 2025

Requires the Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to prevent accidents in the future.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Osborne
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 Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to prevent accidents in the future.

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study car crash rates at big games or concerts compared to car crash rates when the events are not happening.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study car crash rates at big games or concerts compared to car crash rates when the events are not happening.
The Act tells ODOT to report the results of the study to the JCT and give the JCT ideas about how to stop car crashes at the events in the future.
(Flesch Readability Score: 69.6).
Requires the Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to prevent accidents in the future.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Transportation with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study car crash rates at big games or concerts compared to car crash rates when the events are not happening. The Act tells ODOT to report the results of the study to the JCT and give the JCT ideas about how to stop car crashes at the events in the future. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.6).
Requires the Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to prevent accidents in the future.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to vehicular accidents near entertainment events; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2102
Sponsored by Representative OSBORNE (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 ODOT to study car crash rates at big games or concerts compared to car
crash rates when the events are not happening. The Act tells ODOT to report the results of the
study to the JCT and give the JCT ideas about how to stop car crashes at the events in the future.
(Flesch Readability Score: 69.6).
Requires the Department of Transportation to study the occurrence of vehicular accidents near
entertainment events and provide a report to the Joint Committee on Transportation on how to
prevent accidents in the future.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to vehicular accidents near entertainment events; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “entertainment event” means an event attended
by at least 10,000 people that is a performance, spectacle, show or similar event intended for
amusement, diversion or recreation, such as a theatrical or musical performance, concert,
film, game or sporting event.
(2) The Department of Transportation shall conduct a study of vehicular accident rates
near entertainment events compared to vehicular accident rates in the same locations when
the entertainment events are not occurring.
(3) The department shall submit a report on the results of the study and shall provide
recommendations for preventing future vehicular accidents at entertainment events. The
report must be made in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations for legislation, to the Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September
15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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.
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