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HB3981 • 2025

Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets.

Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Lively
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.

Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets.

Digest: This Act delays responsible end market laws for one year.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act delays responsible end market laws for one year.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
  • Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets.
  • Prohibits, before July 1, 2026, the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring that a recycling processing facility take certain actions with respect to responsible end markets.

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. 2025-06-11 House

    Referred to Rules.

  3. 2025-06-04 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act delays responsible end market laws for one year. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer materials to responsible end markets.
Prohibits, before July 1, 2026, the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring that a recycling processing facility take certain actions with respect to responsible end markets.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to delayed implementation of responsible end market requirements; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3981
Sponsored by Representative LIVELY
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: This Act delays responsible end market laws for one year. (Flesch Readability Score:
69.7).
Delays, until July 1, 2026, the requirement that a producer responsibility organization transfer
materials to responsible end markets.
Prohibits, before July 1, 2026, the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring that a
recycling processing facility take certain actions with respect to responsible end markets.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to delayed implementation of responsible end market requirements; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 459A.860 to
459A.975.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 459A.860 to 459A.975:
(1) A producer responsibility organization’s obligation to ensure that covered products
collected for recycling are transferred to responsible end markets applies to covered pro-
ducts collected on or after July 1, 2026.
(2) The Department of Environmental Quality may not require before July 1, 2026, in a
permit issued to a commingled recycling processing facility pursuant to ORS 459.205 and
459A.955, that the owner or operator of the facility market materials to a responsible end
market or obtain a certification that an end market meet standards for environmental and
social sustainability.
SECTION 3.
It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly that section 2 of this 2025 Act
delay the requirements related to responsible end markets imposed on any person by ORS
459A.860 to 459A.975 until July 1, 2026. If this 2025 Act becomes effective after July 1, 2025,
any enforcement action initiated by the Department of Environmental Quality against any
person for a violation of ORS 459A.860 to 459A.975 related to responsible end markets oc-
curring on or after July 1, 2025, and before the effective date of this 2025 Act, must be stayed
or dismissed consistent with this section.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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 4960