l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2168

Instructs the Oregon State University Extension Service to establish a program for providing assistance to households that rely on wells for drinking water or on septic systems for wastewater treatment.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act tells an entity to create a program for helping households that rely on water wells or septic systems. The Act gives money for other purposes related to water wells and septic systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0). Instructs the Oregon State University Extension Service to establish a program for providing assistance to households that rely on wells for drinking water or on septic systems for wastewater treatment. Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission out of the General Fund for distribution to the extension service for implementing the program. Appropriates moneys to the Water Resources Department out of the General Fund for deposit into the Water Well Abandonment, Repair and Replacement Fund. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Environmental Quality out of the General Fund for the septic system low-interest loan programs. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Its course

January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action7 actions on 5 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and WaterJan 17 to Feb 317 days

Ways and MeansFeb 3 to Jun 27 · stopped144 days

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27

  1. Jan 13Introduced
  2. Jan 17Sent to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water
  3. Jan 22Heard in Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water
  4. Feb 3Heard in Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water
  5. Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water recommended it, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Jan 17Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Jan 22Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Feb 3Work Session held.House of Representatives
  5. Feb 3Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  6. Feb 3Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives