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HB2478 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study animal cruelty.

Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study animal cruelty.

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 animal cruelty.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal cruelty.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal cruelty.
  • The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
  • Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study animal cruelty.

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 Judiciary.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal cruelty. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study animal cruelty. 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 animal cruelty.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2478
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 animal cruelty. The Act tells the agency to report on
the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study animal cruelty. Directs the department to
report to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural re-
sources no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to animal cruelty.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Agriculture shall study animal cruelty. The de-
partment 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 2833