HB3257 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.

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.

Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.

Digest: The Act makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other certifications held by members of military families.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other certifications held by members of military families.
The Act makes OMD submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-24 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans.
2025-01-21 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other certifications held by members of military families. The Act makes OMD submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans and emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to licensure portability for military families.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3257
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 makes OMD do a study on the use across state lines of licenses and other
certifications held by members of military families. The Act makes OMD submit a report on its
findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to veterans and emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to licensure portability for military families.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Military Department shall study the portability of licenses and
other professional certifications held by members of military families. The department shall
submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations
for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans and
emergency management 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 3641