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HB3391 • 2025

Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.

Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.

Elections
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Rules
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 Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.

Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
  • Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting.
  • Directs the Secretary of State to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to elections not later than September 15, 2026.

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. 2025-01-30 House

    Referred to Rules.

  3. 2025-01-28 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. Directs the Secretary of State to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to elections not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to ranked choice voting.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3391
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON RULES (at the request of Representative Ben Bowman)
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 the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. (Flesch Readability Score:
69.7).
Requires the Secretary of State to study ranked choice voting. Directs the Secretary of State
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to elections not
later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to ranked choice voting.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Secretary of State shall study ranked choice voting. The secretary 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 elections
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 3225