Requires that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to amendment adoption by the 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 that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to amendment adoption by the committee.

Digest: The measure creates a rule for the House and the Senate that requires an okay from the chief sponsor of a measure before a change to the measure can be thought about by a committee.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The measure creates a rule for the House and the Senate that requires an okay from the chief sponsor of a measure before a change to the measure can be thought about by a committee.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
• Requires that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to amendment adoption by the committee.
• Relating to: Requiring that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to its adoption by the 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 House and the Senate that requires an okay from the chief sponsor of a measure before a change to the measure can be thought about by a committee. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to amendment adoption by the committee.
Relating to: Requiring that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to its adoption by the committee.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Concurrent Resolution 4
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 House and the Senate that requires an okay from the
chief sponsor of a measure before a change to the measure can be thought about by a committee.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires that a committee of the Legislative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative
measure only if the chief sponsor of the measure approves the amendment prior to amendment
adoption by the 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 the House of Represen-
tatives of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly.
(2) A committee of either house of the Legislative Assembly or a joint committee of the Legis-
lative Assembly may adopt an amendment to a legislative measure only if a chief sponsor of the
legislative measure approves the amendment in advance of the amendment’s adoption by the com-
mittee.
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.
LC 2377