Requires written authorization from the chief sponsor of a bill before a legislative concept containing an emergency clause may be accepted for filing. Requires written authorization from the sponsor of the amendment before an amendment that adds an emergency clause to a bill may be adopted by a committee.

Plain English Breakdown

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

Requires written authorization from the chief sponsor of a bill before a legislative concept containing an emergency clause may be accepted for filing. Requires written authorization from the sponsor of the amendment before an amendment that adds an emergency clause to a bill may be adopted by a committee.

Digest: The measure creates a rule for the Senate and the House that requires a written okay from the sponsor before an Act can start when the Act is signed.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The measure creates a rule for the Senate and the House that requires a written okay from the sponsor before an Act can start when the Act is signed.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
• Requires written authorization from the chief sponsor of a bill before a legislative concept containing an emergency clause may be accepted for filing.
• Requires written authorization from the sponsor of the amendment before an amendment that adds an emergency clause to a bill may be adopted by a committee.

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.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The measure creates a rule for the Senate and the House that requires a written okay from the sponsor before an Act can start when the Act is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires written authorization from the chief sponsor of a bill before a legislative concept containing an emergency clause may be accepted for filing.
Requires written authorization from the sponsor of the amendment before an amendment that adds an emergency clause to a bill may be adopted by a committee.
Relating to: Requiring written authorization for the use of emergency clauses.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Concurrent Resolution 3
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 measure creates a rule for the Senate and the House that requires a written okay
from the sponsor before an Act can start when the Act is signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires written authorization from the chief sponsor of a bill before a legislative concept con-
taining an emergency clause may be accepted for filing.
Requires written authorization from the sponsor of the amendment before an amendment that
adds an emergency clause to a bill may be adopted by a committee.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
(1) This resolution constitutes a rule of proceeding of the Senate and of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly.
(2) A legislative concept that contains an emergency clause may not be accepted for filing by
the Secretary of the Senate or the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives unless the concept
is accompanied by written authorization for the emergency clause that is signed by the chief sponsor
of the bill.
(3) An amendment that amends a bill so as to include an emergency clause in the bill may not
be adopted by a committee unless the committee receives written authorization for the emergency
clause that is signed by the amendment sponsor.
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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