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HB3398 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.

Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.

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 Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.

Digest: The Act tells DAS to look at state administration and make a report.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells DAS to look at state administration and make a report.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
  • Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.
  • Sunsets on January 2, 2027.

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: The Act tells DAS to look at state administration and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to state administration.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3398
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: The Act tells DAS to look at state administration and make a report. (Flesch Readability
Score: 76.5).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and
submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government
not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state administration.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall study state ad-
ministration. 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 Legisla-
tive Assembly related to general government 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 3248