HB3593 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Energy to study the lower Deschutes River.

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Gamba
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 Energy to study the lower Deschutes River.

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on the lower Deschutes River and submit a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on the lower Deschutes River and submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study the lower Deschutes River.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-20 House
Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.
2025-02-18 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on the lower Deschutes River and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study the lower Deschutes River. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to the lower Deschutes River.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3593
Sponsored by Representative GAMBA
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: Makes ODOE do a study on the lower Deschutes River and submit a report on its
findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study the lower Deschutes River. Directs the de-
partment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy
no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the lower Deschutes River.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Energy shall study the lower Deschutes River. 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 re-
lated to energy 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 4290