HB2477 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study rules related to animals.

Agriculture

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.

Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study rules related to animals.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules related to animals.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules related to animals.
The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.2).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study rules related to animals.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules related to animals. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study rules related to animals. Directs the department to report to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to animals.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2477
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Judiciary for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 an agency to study rules related to animals. The Act tells the agency to
report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study rules related to animals. Directs the de-
partment to report to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to animals.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Agriculture shall study rules related to animals.
The department shall submit a report on the study in the manner provided by ORS 192.245,
and may include recommendations for legislation, to the committees or interim committees
of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources 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 2832