SB1146 • 2025

Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate 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 rules related to water.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules about water.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules about water.
The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 74.0).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-03 Senate
Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.
2025-02-27 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to water.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1146
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB
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 rules about water. The Act tells the agency to report
on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study rules related to water. Directs the department
to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural re-
sources not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to water.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Water Resources Department shall study rules related to water. The
department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated 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.
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