l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 931

Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Rules 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 says that courts may not defer to a state agency's thinking about a law or rule. The Act says that courts have to use an interpretation that limits agency power and favors people's liberty. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). Provides that courts may not defer to an agency's interpretation of a statute or rule. Directs courts to exercise doubt in favor of an interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

Its course

January 21 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 2 days

In the SenateJan 21 to Jun 27 · stopped157 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 21 to Jan 210 days

RulesJan 21 to Jun 27 · stopped157 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 Senate Jan 21 – Jun 27

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Rules
  3. Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published