l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2642

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to contract with businesses to provide motor vehicle pollution control equipment testing.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: This Act tells DEQ to contract with businesses to test vehicles. The Act stops the DEQ from testing vehicles at its own stations or letting employees do the tests for their employers. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to contract with businesses to provide motor vehicle pollution control equipment testing. Prohibits the department from owning or operating motor vehicle pollution control testing stations. Prohibits the department from issuing a license to an employee of a fleet owner to inspect pollution control systems of fleet vehicles.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

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 action4 actions on 4 days

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

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

TransportationJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 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 Transportation
  3. Feb 18Heard in Transportation
  4. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 4 actions, as published
  1. Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Jan 17Referred to Transportation.House of Representatives
  3. Feb 18Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives