SB205 • 2025

Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to driving while under the influence of intoxicants and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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 Department of Transportation to study issues related to driving while under the influence of intoxicants and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to do a study about DUII and report back.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to do a study about DUII and report back.
(Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to driving while under the influence of intoxicants and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.

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 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to do a study about DUII and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to driving while under the influence of intoxicants and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to driving while under the influence of intoxicants.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 205
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary)
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 ODOT to do a study about DUII and report back. (Flesch Readability
Score: 76.5).
Directs the Department of Transportation to study issues related to driving while under the in-
fluence of intoxicants and to report to an appropriate committee or interim committee of the Leg-
islative Assembly on or before September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to driving while under the influence of intoxicants.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Transportation shall study issues related to driving while
under the influence of intoxicants and present the results of the study in a report to an ap-
propriate committee or interim committee of the Legislative Assembly in the manner pro-
vided under ORS 192.245 on or before 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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