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SB364 • 2025

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data.

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data.

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.

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data.

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
  • Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.

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 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire, then Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to marine ecosystem data.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 364
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: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on marine ecosystem data.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study marine ecosystem data. Directs the
department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the
environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to marine ecosystem data.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Environmental Quality shall study marine ecosystem
data. 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 As-
sembly related to the environment 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 1867