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HB3705 • 2025

Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues.

Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Owens,, Helm
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.

Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study water management issues.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells an agency to study water management issues.
  • The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
  • Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues.

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. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water.

  3. 2025-02-25 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study water management issues. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues. Directs the department to report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to water management.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3705
Sponsored by Representatives OWENS, HELM
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 an agency to study water management issues. The Act tells the agency to
report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study water management issues. Directs the de-
partment to report to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to na-
tural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to water management.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Water Resources Department shall study water management issues.
The department shall submit a report on the study in the manner provided by ORS 192.245,
and may include recommendations for legislation, to the committees or interim committees
of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources 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 2776