SB752 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to review statewide economic development plans and strategies implemented in the other states and submit a report to the Legislative Assembly that includes recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic development plan for Oregon.

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to review statewide economic development plans and strategies implemented in the other states and submit a report to the Legislative Assembly that includes recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic development plan for Oregon.

Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon look at economic plans in the other states.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon look at economic plans in the other states.
The Act would have the agency submit a report that recommends how to create a plan for Oregon.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to review statewide economic development plans and strategies implemented in the other states and submit a report to the Legislative Assembly that includes recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic development plan for Oregon.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Labor and Business, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon look at economic plans in the other states. The Act would have the agency submit a report that recommends how to create a plan for Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to review statewide economic development plans and strategies implemented in the other states and submit a report to the Legislative Assembly that includes recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic development plan for Oregon. Specifies stakeholders with which the department shall consult in the conduct of the study.
Relating to: Relating to statewide economic development plans.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 752
Sponsored by Senator GORSEK (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 would have Business Oregon look at economic plans in the other states. The
Act would have the agency submit a report that recommends how to create a plan for Oregon.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to review statewide economic develop-
ment plans and strategies implemented in the other states and submit a report to the Legislative
Assembly that includes recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic development plan
for Oregon. Specifies stakeholders with which the department shall consult in the conduct of the
study.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to statewide economic development plans.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall review statewide
economic development plans and strategies implemented in the other states. The department
shall submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to eco-
nomic development in the manner provided under ORS 192.245 no later than September 15,
2026. The report shall include recommendations for the creation of a statewide economic
development plan for Oregon.
(2) In conducting the study, the department shall consult with stakeholders, including,
but not limited to, representatives of:
(a) The business community in Oregon;
(b) Economic development districts;
(c) Local economic development organizations;
(d) Labor organizations;
(e) Philanthropic organizations; and
(f) Any other stakeholders in this state that the department considers appropriate and
useful to achieve the goals of the study.
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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