Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study more cost effective ways for state agencies to procure translation services.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study more cost effective ways for state agencies to procure translation services.

Digest: The Act tells DAS to look at more cost effective ways for agencies to get translation services and make a report.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells DAS to look at more cost effective ways for agencies to get translation services and make a report.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
• Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study more cost effective ways for state agencies to procure translation services.
• Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells DAS to look at more cost effective ways for agencies to get translation services and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study more cost effective ways for state agencies to procure translation services. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to translation services.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3736
Sponsored by Representatives NELSON, MUNOZ
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 look at more cost effective ways for agencies to get translation
services and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study more cost effective ways
for state agencies to procure translation services. Directs the department to submit findings to the
interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government no later than Sep-
tember 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to translation services.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall study more cost
effective ways for state agencies to procure accessible and accurate translation services. The
study must examine ways to use technology as a resource. The department shall submit a
report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legis-
lation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to general government
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.
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