Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to discontinue doing business under the name "Business Oregon."

Plain English Breakdown

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

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to discontinue doing business under the name "Business Oregon."

<b>Digest: The Act would stop the use by the state business agency of the dba name "Business Oregon." (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study its role in economic development.

What This Bill Does

• <b>Digest: The Act would stop the use by the state business agency of the dba name "Business Oregon." (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study its role in economic development.
• The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).</i>] [<i>Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study its role in economic development in Oregon.
• Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.</i>] [<i>Sunsets January 2, 2027.</i>] <b>Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to discontinue doing business under the name "Business Oregon."</b> Relating to: Relating to the Oregon Business Development Department.

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Official Summary Text

<b>Digest: The Act would stop the use by the state business agency of the dba name "Business Oregon." (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).</b>
[<i>Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study its role in economic development. The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).</i>]
[<i>Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study its role in economic development in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.</i>]
[<i>Sunsets January 2, 2027.</i>]
<b>Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to discontinue doing business under the name "Business Oregon."</b>
Relating to: Relating to the Oregon Business Development Department.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2274
Ordered by the House April 15
Including House Amendments dated April 15
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade for Representative Daniel Nguyen)
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act would stop the use by the state business agency of the dba name “Busi-
ness Oregon.” (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
[Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study its role in economic development. The Act
would require a report of the study to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). ]
[Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study its role in economic development
in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026. ]
[Sunsets January 2, 2027. ]
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to discontinue doing business
under the name “Business Oregon.”
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Oregon Business Development Department.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
There is appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department, for
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $100,000 for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 2. The Oregon Business Development Department shall:
(1) Discontinue registering with the Secretary of State to do business as “Business
Oregon”; and
(2) Hold itself out and otherwise refer to itself as the “Oregon Business Development
Department” or “OBDD” and not as “Business Oregon” in all internal and external commu-
nications, publications and other documentation of any kind.
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 3193