SB335 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products.

Agriculture

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 State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products.
The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study uses for animal processing waste products. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products. Directs the department to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to animal processing waste products.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 335
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
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 uses for animal processing waste products. The Act
tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste
products. Directs the department to report to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related
to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to animal processing waste products.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
In consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, the State
Department of Agriculture shall study potential uses for animal processing waste products,
including, but not limited to, hides. The department shall submit a report on the study in the
manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the
interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related 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.
LC 1293