SB564 • 2025

Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct a study and make a report on increasing the capacity of motor vehicle travel on a portion of U.S. Highway 20.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Anderson
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct a study and make a report on increasing the capacity of motor vehicle travel on a portion of U.S. Highway 20.

<b>Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study widening a bit of U.S.

What This Bill Does

<b>Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study widening a bit of U.S.
Highway 20.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act tells ODOT to widen the part of U.S.
Highway 20 between Highway 99 and the City of Philomath.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-04-10 Senate
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.)
2025-04-10 Senate
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-04-07 Senate
Work Session held.
2025-02-11 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Transportation, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

<b>Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study widening a bit of U.S. Highway 20. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).</b>
[<i>Digest: The Act tells ODOT to widen the part of U.S. Highway 20 between Highway 99 and the City of Philomath. Gives money to ODOT to do the task. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).</i>]
[<i>Directs the Department of Transportation to widen and add capacity to a portion of U.S. Highway 20.</i>]
<b>Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct a study and make a report on increasing the capacity of motor vehicle travel on a portion of U.S. Highway 20.</b>
Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to U.S. Highway 20; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 564
Ordered by the Senate April 10
Including Senate Amendments dated April 10
Sponsored by Senator ANDERSON (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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act tells ODOT to study widening a bit of U.S. Highway 20. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 63.4).
[Digest: The Act tells ODOT to widen the part of U.S. Highway 20 between Highway 99 and the
City of Philomath. Gives money to ODOT to do the task. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). ]
[Directs the Department of Transportation to widen and add capacity to a portion of U.S. Highway
20.]
Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct a study and make a report on in-
creasing the capacity of motor vehicle travel on a portion of U.S. Highway 20.
Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to U.S. Highway 20; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall conduct a study and make a
report on the following:
(a) Recommendations for increasing the capacity of motor vehicle travel on the portion
of U.S. Highway 20 beginning where the highway intersects with Southwest 15th Street, and
ending where the highway intersects with the city limits of the City of Philomath, and for
improving the condition of U.S. Highway 20, beginning at milepost 49 and ending at milepost
94, to a state of good repair;
(b) A cost estimate for the recommended improvements; and
(c) Any other information that the department deems pertinent and useful to share with
the Joint Committee on Transportation.
(2) The department shall submit the report required by this section, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the Joint Committee on Transportation in the manner
provided under ORS 192.245 no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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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