KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to Oregon

HB2778 • 2025

Directs the Water Resources Department to study innovative water technologies.

Directs the Water Resources Department to study innovative water technologies.

Agriculture
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water,
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 Water Resources Department to study innovative water technologies.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study innovative water technologies.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells an agency to study innovative water technologies.
  • The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
  • The Act gives money for the study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9).

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 Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 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 an agency to study innovative water technologies. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. The Act gives money for the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study innovative water technologies. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the department for the purpose of undertaking the study.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to innovative water technology; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2778
Sponsored by Representative SMITH G (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 an agency to study innovative water technologies. The Act tells the agency
to report on the study. The Act gives money for the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.9).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study innovative water technologies. Directs the
department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to na-
tural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the department for the purpose of undertaking
the study.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to innovative water technology; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Water Resources Department shall study innovative water technologies.
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 interim committees of the Legisla-
tive 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.
SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Water Resources Department, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $______, for the purpose of undertaking the study described in
section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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 1967