HB2279 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study utilities.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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 utilities.

Digest: Makes the OBDD do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes the OBDD do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study utilities.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the OBDD do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study utilities. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to utilities.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2279
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 as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Makes the OBDD do a study on utilities and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch
Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study utilities. Directs the depart-
ment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic
development not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to utilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Business Development Department shall study utilities. 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 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 3222