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HB2329 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study manufacturing in Oregon.

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study manufacturing in Oregon.

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 manufacturing in Oregon.

Digest: The Act would require a study of manufacturing in this state with a report to be turned in next year.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act would require a study of manufacturing in this state with a report to be turned in next year.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
  • Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study manufacturing in Oregon.
  • Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the Legislative Assembly 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. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would require a study of manufacturing in this state with a report to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study manufacturing in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to manufacturing.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2329
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: The Act would require a study of manufacturing in this state with a report to be turned
in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study manufacturing in Oregon. Di-
rects the department to submit a report of the study to the Legislative Assembly no later than
September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to manufacturing.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Business Development Department shall conduct a study of
manufacturing in Oregon. The department shall submit a report of the study to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development in the manner
provided under ORS 192.245 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 3408