HB3857 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.

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.

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.

Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study how to make the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon study how to make the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.
The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year.
(Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest.

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

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 have Business Oregon study how to make the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest. The Act would require a report of the study to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest. Requires a report to be submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to sports economic development in Oregon; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3857
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 have Business Oregon study how to make the City of Portland and
Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest. The Act would require a report of the study to be
turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study sports economic development in
Oregon with a focus on making the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific
Northwest. Requires a report to be submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to economic development no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to sports economic development in Oregon; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Business Development Department shall study the creation of
a task force to explore sports economic development in Oregon. The focus of the study shall
be to make the City of Portland and Oregon the sports hub of the Pacific Northwest. The
department shall submit a report of the findings of the study, in the manner provided in ORS
192.245, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic develop-
ment no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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