Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.

Digest: The Act says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make the rules.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make the rules.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
• Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
• Relating to: Relating to administrative rules.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make the rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
Relating to: Relating to administrative rules.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 482
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 says that an agency may not make rules without statutory authority to make
the rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Provides that a state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to administrative rules.
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 chapter 183.
SECTION 2. An agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority to adopt the
rules.
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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