SB76 • 2025

Directs the Water Resources Department to study groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels.

Water

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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 Water Resources Department to study groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study certain aspects of some groundwater permits.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to study certain aspects of some groundwater permits.
The Act tells the agency to report on the study.
(Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels.

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 certain aspects of some groundwater permits. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 76
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire)
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 certain aspects of some groundwater permits. The Act
tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
Directs the Water Resources Department to study groundwater permit requirements for small
agricultural parcels. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to groundwater permit requirements for small agricultural parcels.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Water Resources Department shall study groundwater permit require-
ments for small agricultural parcels. 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.
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