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HB2837 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.

Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Evans
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 Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
  • Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
  • Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.

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.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to emergency management.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2837
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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 ODEM to do a study on its operations. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations
regarding improvements to the operations of the department. Requires the department to submit a
report on its findings by January 1, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to emergency management.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall study and
make recommendations regarding improvements to the operations of the department.
(2) The department shall submit a report on its findings to an appropriate committee of
the Legislative Assembly no later than January 1, 2027.
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 2219