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HB3283 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.

Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.

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 State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.

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

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal sanctuaries.
  • The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
  • Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.

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. 2025-01-24 House

    Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water.

  3. 2025-01-21 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study animal sanctuaries. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries. Directs the department to submit findings to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to wildlife no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to animal sanctuaries.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3283
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 tells an agency to study animal sanctuaries. The Act tells the agency to report
on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries. Directs the
department to submit findings to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to wildlife no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to animal sanctuaries.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall study animal sanctuaries.
The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may in-
clude recommendations for legislation, to the committees or interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to wildlife 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 3113