HB3821 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.

Small Business

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Ruiz
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 Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.

Digest: The Act would require a study of the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act would require a study of the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.
A report will be due by September 15 of next year.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-04 House
Referred to Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade.
2025-02-27 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would require a study of the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon. A report will be due by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to small business security.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3821
Sponsored by Representative RUIZ
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 would require a study of the security upgrade needs of small businesses in
Oregon. A report will be due by September 15 of next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the security upgrade needs of
small businesses in Oregon. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September
15,2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to small business security.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Business Development Department shall conduct a study of the
security upgrade needs of small businesses in Oregon. The department shall submit a report
of its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic
development in the manner provided under ORS 192.245 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 4494