Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall have a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Plain English Breakdown

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Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall have a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

Digest: Provides for a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: Provides for a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source.
• Requires voter approval.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8).
• Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall have a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: Provides for a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source. Requires voter approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8).
Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall have a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source.
Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
Relating to: Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to natural gas.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Joint Resolution 32
Sponsored by Senator BONHAM
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: Provides for a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source. Requires voter
approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8).
Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that every person in Oregon shall
have a right to access and use natural gas as an energy source.
Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular
general election.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
PARAGRAPH 1.
The Constitution of the State of Oregon is amended by creating a new section
12 to be added to and made a part of Article XV, such section to read:
SECTION 12. Every person in Oregon shall have a right to access and use natural gas
as an energy source.
PARAGRAPH 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be submitted to the
people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election held throughout
this state.
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 4157