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HB3394 • 2025

Requires the Department of Justice to study public meetings.

Requires the Department of Justice to study public meetings.

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 Department of Justice to study public meetings.

Digest: Tells DOJ to study public meetings and report back.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells DOJ to study public meetings and report back.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
  • Requires the Department of Justice to study public meetings.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules 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 DOJ to study public meetings and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
Requires the Department of Justice to study public meetings. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to public meetings.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3394
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 DOJ to study public meetings and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
Requires the Department of Justice to study public meetings. Directs the department to submit
findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules not later than Sep-
tember 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to public meetings.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Justice shall study public meetings. 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 rules 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 3234