Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts.

Digest: Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
• Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts.
• Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work on construction projects that they are supposed to do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. Directs the department to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to retainage in public improvement contracts.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3265
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: Tells a state agency to do a study about how to make sure that contractors do the work
on construction projects that they are supposed to do. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to
implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. Directs the department to submit
findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public procurement not later
than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to retainage in public improvement contracts.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall study alternative
methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts. The depart-
ment shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recom-
mendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
public procurement 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 3346