l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3091

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish clear administrative rules and internal directives with respect to permits or authorizations issued by the department.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Climate, Energy, and Environment 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 the DEQ to make clear rules about its permits and to expedite permits if it misses a deadline. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish clear administrative rules and internal directives with respect to permits or authorizations issued by the department. Prohibits the department from requiring applicants for a permit or authorization to comply with requirements not in effect at the time of application, subject to exceptions. Requires the department to expedite an application for a permit or authorization if the established deadline for final action has been missed.

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 action3 actions on 3 days

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

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Climate, Energy, and EnvironmentJan 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. Introduced
  2. Sent to Climate, Energy, and Environment
  3. Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published