Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents' estates more efficient.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents' estates more efficient.

Digest: The Act tells the OJD to submit a report to the legislature about ways to make probates more efficient.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells the OJD to submit a report to the legislature about ways to make probates more efficient.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
• Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents' estates more efficient.
• Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the OJD to submit a report to the legislature about ways to make probates more efficient. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents' estates more efficient. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to decedents' estates.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3608
Sponsored by Representative DIEHL
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 the OJD to submit a report to the legislature about ways to make probates
more efficient. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for making the administration of decedents’
estates more efficient. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to decedents’ estates.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Judicial Department shall study options for making the administration
of decedents’ estates more efficient. 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 the judiciary 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 4366