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HB3401 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state finance.

Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state finance.

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 finance.

Digest: The Act tells DAS to do a study on state finance.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells DAS to do a study on state finance.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 95.6).
  • Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state finance.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to ways and means 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: The Act tells DAS to do a study on state finance. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.6).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state finance. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to ways and means not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to state finance.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3401
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 do a study on state finance. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.6).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state finance. Directs the
department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to ways
and means not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state finance.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall study state fi-
nance. 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 ways and means 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 3255