Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB2069: Relating to tribal consultation; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, August 7, 2025
Digest: The Act makes a task force about consulting with tribes. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.7). Establishes the Task Force on Tribal Consultation 2025 and specifies the task force membership. Requires the task force to identify and clarify requirements of state agencies to engage in tribal consultation. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations on tribal consultation to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to government by September 15, 2026. Sunsets December 31, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 20, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session House Bill 2069 Sponsored by Representative SANCHEZ; Representatives HARTMAN, NELSON (Presession filed.) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to tribal consultation; and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. (1) The Task Force on Tribal Consultation 2025 is established. (2) The task force consists of 17 members appointed as follows: (a) The President of the Senate shall appoint one member from among members of the Senate. (b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint one member from among members of the House of Representatives. (c) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall jointly appoint one member who is a member of the Commission on Indian Services. (d) The Governor shall (B) One member from each of the nine federally recognized Indian tribes in this state; and (C) Four members, each of whom is a representative of a state agency that is required to engage in tribal consultation. (3) In appointing members to the task force under subsection (2) of this section, the appointing authority shall, where feasible, appoint individuals who served as members of the Task Force on Tribal Consultation described in section 1, chapter 531, Oregon Laws 2023. (4) The task force shall identify and clarify the requirements of state agencies to engage in tribal consultation. In carrying out …