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HB2402 • 2025

Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.

Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Levy B, Representative Scharf,, Senator Nash,, Weber,
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.

Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.

Digest: The Act tells agencies to look at their rules and simplify them.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells agencies to look at their rules and simplify them.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8).
  • Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
  • Relating to: Relating to administrative rules.

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 Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells agencies to look at their rules and simplify them. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8).
Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
Relating to: Relating to administrative rules.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2402
Sponsored by Representative LEVY B; Representative SCHARF, Senators NASH, WEBER (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 agencies to look at their rules and simplify them. (Flesch Readability
Score: 81.8).
Directs every agency to review the agency’s administrative rules and amend the rules to sim-
plify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to administrative rules.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 183.
SECTION 2. No later than January 1, 2027, every agency shall review the agency’s rules
and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy within the agency’s rules
and with the rules of other agencies.
SECTION 3. Sections 1 and 2 of this 2025 Act are 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.
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