HB3728 • 2025

Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Osborne,, Senator Smith DB, Representative Boice,, Diehl,, Reschke
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 topics related to the Winchester Dam.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study topics related to a certain dam.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study topics related to a certain dam.
The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-27 House
Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water.
2025-02-25 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study topics related to a certain dam. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam. Directs the department to submit a report on the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to dams.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3728
Sponsored by Representative OSBORNE, Senator SMITH DB; Representatives DIEHL, RESCHKE
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 topics related to a certain dam. The Act tells the
agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study topics related to the Winchester Dam. Directs
the department to submit a report on the study to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to dams.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Water Resources Department shall study the feasibility, costs and
environmental impacts of:
(a) Turning the Winchester Dam into an operating dam that would provide
hydroelectricity for the region.
(b) Installing a state-of-the-art fish screen or by-pass device in or around the Winchester
Dam.
(2) 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 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 4655