HB 4020
Plain-language analysis
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HB 4020 mandates four state agencies to explicitly cite statutory or regulatory authority and provide contestation guidance when denying a permit application. It requires these agencies to develop a performance measure by July 1, 2029, tracking the timeliness of permit processing and renewals, including descriptions of processing bottlenecks and potential legislative fixes. The measure expires on January 2, 2040. Materially, it shifts administrative burdens onto agency staff to standardize denial notices and track processing metrics, while granting applicants clearer, standardized pathways to challenge decisions and benefit from future transparency-driven efficiency reforms.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The enrolled bill explicitly states that complex permitting processes and undefined timelines create uncertainty for applicants planning time-sensitive activities, and that the absence of consistent performance measures prevents agencies and policymakers from identifying bottlenecks, evaluating delays, or considering process improvements.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Enrolled
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The final enrolled version narrows coverage to environmental and resource agencies while excluding the Department of Transportation. This likely reflects committee-level feedback indicating that DOT permitting operates under distinct statutory frameworks or timelines, allowing the legislature to target agencies where permit backlogs and processing transparency are most acute.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary B
Receives standardized denial notices with explicit legal authority and step-by-step contestation guidance, reducing ambiguity in appeals. Will gain access to future public data on processing delays.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Must modify internal workflows to include statutory citations and contestation timelines in denial letters. Must design, implement, and annually report on a timeliness performance measure by July 1, 2029, including bottleneck analysis.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Gains structured, legislatively mandated data on permit processing speeds and systemic bottlenecks to inform future statutory or administrative reforms.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Agencies will incur minimal one-time costs to update denial templates and reporting systems, with ongoing annual administrative burdens for metric tracking and bottleneck documentation. Fiscal offices confirm no revenue impact and only minimal fiscal impact on expenditures. Applicants gain predictable appeal windows but face no guarantee of faster approvals, as the measure lacks binding processing deadlines or enforcement penalties. Agencies may need to reallocate staff time from substantive review to compliance reporting.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement B; IS_Impact HB 4020 1
Permit Applicants (Developers, Industry, Landowners)
An agency uses the required bottleneck description to identify a single redundant interagency consultation step causing 80% of delays, leading to targeted statutory reform that cuts processing times by half industry-wide and accelerates housing or infrastructure development.
Basis: Inferred
Policymakers and State Government
Agencies treat the performance measure as a compliance checkbox, narrowly defining timeliness to exclude complex cases or technical corrections. This masks systemic backlogs, leaves applicants without meaningful recourse despite the denial guide requirement, and wastes legislative resources on superficial reporting.
Basis: Inferred
The text legally permits metric narrowing and sunset discontinuation. Weak enforcement or misclassification of application statuses could transform a transparency tool into a compliance facade.
The measure trades mandatory administrative transparency and reporting burdens on four agencies for clearer applicant recourse and data-driven potential efficiency gains, without imposing binding processing deadlines or enforcement penalties.
Standardized appeal pathways, targeted bottleneck identification, and legislative visibility into permitting delays that could inform future reforms.
Basis: Inferred
Minimal enforcement leverage, potential for metric gaming, and administrative costs that may strain resource-constrained agencies without guaranteeing faster approvals.
Basis: Inferred
The enrolled version removes the Department of Transportation from the list of covered agencies in Sections 2(1) and 3(1), narrowing the mandate to DEQ, DSL, DOE, and DGI. The core requirements—citing statutory authority for denials, providing contestation guidance and timelines, and developing a timeliness performance measure by July 1, 2029—remain substantively unchanged. Minor editorial adjustments were made to the preamble and section numbering, while the effective date mechanism (91 days post-adjournment) and sunset provision (January 2, 2040) are retained.
Scope reduction: Department of Transportation removed from covered agencies.
Narrows administrative burden and reporting requirements to environmental and resource-focused agencies, likely reflecting committee feedback on differing statutory frameworks or timelines.
Sources · Enrolled; House Amendments to A-Engrossed; Staff Measure Summary B
Tradeoff: The measure trades mandatory administrative transparency and reporting burdens on four agencies for clearer applicant recourse and data-driven potential efficiency gains, without imposing binding processing deadlines or enforcement penalties.
high confidence. Analysis is grounded in the enrolled bill text, official fiscal/revenue impact statements, and committee staff summaries. No speculative litigation or external events are assumed.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
If adopted, the amendment removes the Department of Transportation from HB 4020 and retains requirements for the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of State Lands, State Department of Energy, and State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to justify permit denials with statutory or regulatory authority, provide contest guidance and timelines, and develop a timeliness performance measure by July 1, 2029. Applicants will gain standardized denial explanations and appeal windows, while the listed agencies must allocate administrative resources to track processing times and report bottlenecks until the mandate expires on January 2, 2040.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -A2 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary B; Staff Measure Summary B
The measure’s preamble explicitly states that complex permitting processes and undefined timelines create uncertainty for applicants planning construction, hiring, or financing, and that consistent performance measures are necessary to help agencies and policymakers identify bottlenecks and evaluate delays.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
Committee review may have indicated that transportation permits fall outside the core environmental and natural resource permitting scope targeted by the bill, prompting a narrowing of agency coverage to focus on land, energy, and mineral sectors.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Staff Measure Summary B
Will receive mandatory written justification for denials, clear contest procedures, and defined appeal windows, reducing uncertainty in project planning and financing.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary B
Must draft denial guides, establish contest timelines, and develop a timeliness performance metric by July 1, 2029, including analysis of processing bottlenecks.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary B
Excluded from the measure’s requirements following the amendment, meaning its permit denial processes remain governed by existing statutes without new mandate for contest guides or timeliness metrics.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Amendment -A2 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary B
Agencies will need to allocate staff time to draft standardized denial guides, define contest windows, and build tracking systems for permit processing timeliness. Applicants gain predictable appeal timelines but must adhere to newly specified contest deadlines. The performance measure requirement expires automatically on January 2, 2040, limiting long-term administrative burden unless renewed. Fiscal impact is assessed as minimal or none by legislative staff. While the bill incorporates a statutory definition of permit from ORS 183.700, this remains an Oregon-law change governing state agency procedures rather than a federal regulatory shift.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement B; Staff Measure Summary B; House Amendments to Introduced
Permit applicants and project developers
Standardized contest windows and mandatory bottleneck reporting accelerate high-priority projects by forcing agencies to publicly identify and resolve processing delays, cutting approval times significantly and improving economic planning certainty.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Staff Measure Summary A
Affected state agencies and regulated entities
Agencies facing legitimate but lengthy environmental or safety reviews may face political or budgetary pressure to meet timeliness targets, potentially leading to rushed approvals or metric manipulation to avoid scrutiny before the 2040 expiration.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Staff Measure Summary B; House Amendments to Introduced
The text legally permits metric tracking and timeline setting; abuse arises from misclassification of review phases or procedural gatekeeping when oversight is lax.
Sources · Staff Measure Summary A; House Amendments to Introduced
Predictability and accountability for applicants versus administrative burden and potential metric-driven pressure on agencies to prioritize speed over thorough environmental or safety review.
Standardized denial explanations, clear contest windows, and mandatory bottleneck reporting reduce applicant uncertainty and enable data-driven process improvements.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Staff Measure Summary A
Mandatory timeliness tracking and fixed expiration dates may strain agency resources, create political pressure to accelerate reviews beyond technical capacity, and incentivize metric manipulation near the 2040 sunset.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Staff Measure Summary B
high confidence. Analysis relies exclusively on official committee amendments, staff summaries, and fiscal statements for the exact proposed version. No enacted text or external speculation is used.
If adopted, Amendment A2 would require the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Department of State Lands, State Department of Energy, and State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to cite statutory or regulatory authority when denying a permit, provide applicants with a guide on how to contest the denial and applicable time limits, and develop a performance measure by July 1, 2029 tracking the timeliness of permit processing and renewals. The measure includes a sunset provision repealing the performance tracking requirement on January 2, 2040. Materially, it shifts administrative burden to state agencies to standardize denial notices and track processing times, while giving applicants clearer procedural pathways to challenge denials.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -A2 — proposed amendment; House Amendments to Introduced
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment likely aims to streamline environmental and land-use permitting by mandating standardized denial notices and performance tracking, which could reduce applicant uncertainty and provide legislators with data to justify future process reforms.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Must modify denial notice formats, draft contestation guides, establish tracking metrics by 2029, and report bottleneck analyses. Administrative workload increases temporarily during implementation.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Gain standardized written justification for denials, clear instructions on how to appeal, and defined time limits for contests. May experience faster or more predictable processing if agencies meet performance targets.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Receive mandated data on permit timeliness and bottlenecks by 2029, enabling evidence-based legislative adjustments to permitting statutes.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Agencies must allocate staff time to draft contestation guides, update denial templates, and build tracking systems for permit processing timelines. Initial implementation costs are minimal per LRO/LFO assessments, but ongoing compliance requires sustained data collection.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement B; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Applicants gain a formalized mechanism to challenge denials within specified windows, potentially reducing informal delays or arbitrary rejections.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
The 2029 deadline and 2040 sunset create a fixed legislative window for performance tracking, after which agencies may discontinue the requirement without further statutory mandate.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
State Permitting Agencies and Applicants
Agencies successfully identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks using the mandated data, reducing average permit processing times by months and accelerating critical infrastructure or housing projects statewide.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
State Permitting Agencies and Applicants
Agencies face resource constraints that force them to prioritize compliance reporting over substantive review, leading to rushed approvals with inadequate environmental or safety safeguards, or conversely, prolonged denials due to bureaucratic delays in generating required guides and metrics.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
The statute mandates providing time limits but does not prescribe minimum fairness standards for those limits, leaving room for administrative manipulation if oversight is absent.
Sources · House Amendments to Introduced
The measure trades increased administrative compliance costs and reporting obligations for state agencies in exchange for greater procedural transparency and predictable timelines for permit applicants. Upsides include reduced application uncertainty, data-driven process improvements, and standardized appeal pathways. Downsides include temporary staffing burdens, potential bureaucratic rigidity in denial notices, and the risk that performance metrics may incentivize speed over thoroughness if not carefully calibrated.
Reduced application uncertainty and faster project planning for developers, contractors, and landowners.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Legislative access to bottleneck data enables targeted statutory reforms without broad regulatory overhauls.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Temporary staffing and IT costs to draft guides, update templates, and build tracking systems.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement B
Risk that performance metrics prioritize processing speed over substantive environmental or safety review if not paired with quality safeguards.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
high confidence. The amendment text, current bill structure, and official fiscal/revenue assessments provide clear statutory requirements and explicit legislative framing. No enacted language or external litigation history is required to assess the proposed changes.
If adopted, this amendment would require five specific state agencies to explicitly cite the legal authority for denying permits, provide applicants with a guide and time limits for contesting denials, and develop a timeliness performance measure for permit processing by July 1, 2029. The measure includes a sunset clause repealing the timeliness requirement in January 2040. Material consequences include standardized denial explanations, clearer appeal pathways for applicants, and mandated administrative tracking of permit processing speeds, with no direct revenue impact but minimal compliance costs for state agencies.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A; Fiscal Impact Statement B
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment aims to reduce applicant uncertainty and administrative bottlenecks by forcing agencies to track processing speeds and clarify denial grounds, potentially streamlining development or infrastructure projects.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must draft denial guides, track timeliness metrics, and report bottlenecks by 2029, incurring minimal administrative costs.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Gain standardized explanations for denials, clear contestation guides with deadlines, and indirect benefits from potential process streamlining.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Receive data on permit processing efficiency to inform future regulatory adjustments, though oversight is temporary due to the sunset provision.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Agencies will incur minimal administrative costs to develop denial guides and establish timeliness tracking systems aligned with existing performance measurement statutes. Applicants will face lower uncertainty when contesting denials due to mandated time limitations and contestation guides. The requirement to describe processing bottlenecks may prompt internal workflow audits. The sunset provision limits long-term data continuity, potentially reducing sustained improvement incentives after the deadline.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement B
State agencies and developers
Agencies use the mandated bottleneck analysis to eliminate redundant review steps, cutting permit processing times by half and accelerating critical housing or infrastructure projects statewide.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Public health, ecological standards, and regulatory integrity
Agencies manipulate timeliness metrics by approving permits with incomplete environmental reviews or waiving standards to meet deadlines, while using the statutory change suggestion clause to push for deregulation that weakens public health or ecological protections.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The distinction rests on whether agencies use the mandated data to improve process integrity versus gaming metrics for speed, and whether tracking remains confined to the enumerated departments.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Increases transparency and applicant predictability in permitting timelines at the cost of administrative burden on state agencies and a temporary oversight framework that may reduce long-term accountability incentives.
Clearer denial explanations and contestation pathways for applicants
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Data-driven identification of processing bottlenecks
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Reduced planning uncertainty for developers and infrastructure projects
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Minimal but non-zero compliance costs for state agencies
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement B
Potential metric gaming focused on speed over quality or compliance
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Fixed sunset provision limits sustained regulatory evaluation after 2040
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded in the proposed amendment text and official fiscal/staff summaries. No enacted language or external litigation risk is assumed.
The amendment would statutorily require five state agencies (DEQ, DOT, State Lands, Energy, and Geology & Mineral Industries) to explicitly cite the legal authority for denying a permit application and provide applicants with written instructions and deadlines for contesting that denial. It also mandates these agencies to create a specific performance metric by July 1, 2029, tracking how long it takes to process and issue permits (including renewals), identify processing bottlenecks, and suggest timeline improvements, with the requirement subject to legislative review in 2039 and automatic expiration in 2040. Materially, this shifts permit denial communications from discretionary practice to statutory mandate, creates a new administrative tracking obligation for agencies, and establishes a temporary legislative benchmark for permitting speed that will sunset automatically without imposing strict approval deadlines or penalties.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The measure appears designed to reduce administrative opacity for developers and contractors by forcing agencies to document denial reasons clearly and track processing speeds, thereby enabling better project scheduling and resource allocation.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Receive standardized denial explanations with explicit contest procedures and deadlines, reducing ambiguity in rejection notices and clarifying appeal pathways.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must revise denial correspondence templates, allocate staff time to track permit processing durations, identify bottlenecks, and report on a new performance metric by 2029.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Gain access to agency-reported timeliness data and bottleneck analyses to inform future permitting reform or budget decisions.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
May see increased formal contest filings if applicants utilize the newly mandated guide and deadlines.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Obligations: Agencies must update denial letters to include specific statutory/regulatory citations, contest guides, and time limits. Staff must implement tracking systems for permit processing times (application to issuance/renewal).
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Costs: Minimal direct fiscal impact per official analysis, but indirect administrative costs will arise from system updates, staff training, and data collection/reporting through 2029.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Fiscal Impact Statement B
Behavior/Access: Applicants gain clearer pathways to challenge denials, potentially increasing formal appeals. Agencies may face pressure to accelerate processing to meet the new performance benchmark, though no strict deadline for approval is imposed.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Enforcement: Compliance relies on agency self-reporting and legislative review of the performance measure; no private right of action or penalty for noncompliance is specified.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Commercial developer/infrastructure contractor
A large commercial developer facing repeated informal delays secures a standardized denial notice with explicit contest deadlines, successfully appeals a bottleneck caused by inter-agency coordination failures, and completes a time-sensitive infrastructure project months ahead of schedule due to agency-driven process reforms triggered by the performance data.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
State agency review staff
An agency overwhelmed by complex environmental reviews struggles to accurately track processing times across thousands of varied permit types, resulting in misleading performance metrics that trigger unwarranted legislative scrutiny, diverting staff from substantive review work to administrative reporting until the 2040 sunset.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The distinction rests on the absence of audit requirements, penalty clauses, or independent verification in the text, which leaves tracking and appeal validation entirely to agency discretion and applicant good faith.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The measure trades increased administrative transparency and temporary performance tracking for additional agency reporting burdens and potential procedural delays from expanded contest opportunities, without guaranteeing faster permit approvals.
Reduced applicant uncertainty in project planning and financing.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Data-driven process improvements through mandated bottleneck analysis.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Diverted staff resources to administrative tracking and reporting.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
No enforcement mechanism to compel actual timeline reductions or prevent metric manipulation.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the provided amendment text and official fiscal/staff summaries. No legislative intent or external events are assumed.
If adopted, the amendment would require five Oregon state agencies to explicitly cite legal authority and provide contestation guidance when denying permits, and mandate that they develop a performance metric tracking permit processing timeliness by July 2029, with the requirement expiring in 2040.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
The amendment's preamble expressly states the purpose is to address complex permitting processes, eliminate uncertainty from undefined timelines, and provide policymakers with data to identify bottlenecks and evaluate delays.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The measure may aim to standardize permit denial communications and create baseline efficiency data across environmental and land-use agencies to inform future regulatory reforms, inferred from the focus on timeliness metrics and bottleneck identification in the preamble.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Will receive standardized denial justifications and contestation guides, reducing uncertainty in planning financing and construction.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must modify denial procedures to include legal citations and contestation steps, and allocate staff time to develop a timeliness performance metric by 2029.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Will gain structured data on processing delays to evaluate potential statutory or procedural reforms.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Agencies must update denial letters and internal workflows to include contestation timelines and guides. Staff time will be required to design, track, and report on the timeliness metric by 2029. Applicants gain clearer pathways to challenge denials but face no new substantive eligibility changes. Costs are classified as minimal, though cumulative agency impacts may vary. The measure remains an Oregon state-law change that utilizes existing ORS definitions for permits but does not adopt federal permitting frameworks.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A; Fiscal Impact Statement B
Agencies and project developers
Agencies successfully identify a major bottleneck (e.g., environmental review delays), leading to targeted statutory reforms that cut permit processing times by 30%+ and accelerate project delivery.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Regulatory applicants and environmental reviewers
Agencies treat the metric as a rigid quota, inadvertently pressuring staff to approve permits prematurely or deny fewer applications to meet timeliness targets, compromising regulatory standards.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The statute mandates reporting but does not prescribe audit mechanisms or standardized definitions for delay categories, creating room for procedural gaming.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The measure trades minimal upfront administrative costs for structured transparency and potential efficiency gains, but risks metric-driven behavior that could prioritize speed over regulatory thoroughness if not carefully scoped. Upsides include reduced applicant uncertainty and data-driven policy improvements; downsides include potential gaming of timeliness metrics and incremental staff burdens across multiple agencies.
Reduced applicant uncertainty in financing and construction planning due to standardized denial communications.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Data-driven policy improvements from structured timeliness reporting.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential gaming of timeliness metrics if agencies lack standardized definitions for delay categories.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Incremental staff burdens across multiple agencies to design, track, and report on the performance metric.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. The amendment text, fiscal statements, and staff summaries provide clear operational requirements and explicit purpose statements. Remaining uncertainties relate to implementation methodology and baseline data, which are standard for proposed measures at this stage.
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Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed.
LC 193 draft
Date printed on LC draft: December 22, 2025
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Mapping document posted: January 13, 2026 at 7:08 AM PST
LC0193_DRAFT_2026_Regular_Session
House Interim Committee on Rules introduction work session
Committee meeting: January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM PST
HR 50
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Committee meeting: January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM PST
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Official vote: 7-0-0
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Chapter 104, (2026 Laws): Effective date June 5, 2026.
Governor signed.
President signed.
Speaker signed.
Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed.
Ayes, 28; Excused, 2--Drazan, Hayden.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill.
Staff Measure Summary · Version B
Referred to Ways and Means.
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Bowman. Passed.
Ayes, 58; Excused, 2--Hartman, Valderrama.
Second reading.
House Amendments to A-Engrossed bill text posted
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed.
Staff Measure Summary · Version B
Fiscal Impact Statement · Version B
Revenue Impact Statement · Version B
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 4 · Room HR 40 · Relating to permits; prescribing an effective date (Representative Bowman, carrier)
Amendment -A2 adopted
Returned to Full Committee.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 1 · Room HR H · Relating to permits
Amendment -A2 proposed
Assigned to Subcommittee On Natural Resources.
House Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker.
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 6 · Room HR 50 · Requires certain agencies to specify the authority justifying the denial of a permit application and provide the applicant a guide on how to contest the denial.
Amendment -1 adopted
IS_Impact HB 4020 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Work Session
Not Heard · Agenda item 5 · Room HR 50 · Requires certain agencies to specify the authority justifying the denial of a permit application and provide the applicant a guide on how to contest the denial.
IS_Impact HB 4020 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -1 proposed
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 3 · Room HR 50 · Requires certain agencies to specify the authority justifying the denial of a permit application and provide the applicant a guide on how to contest the denial.
Amendment -1 proposed
Referred to Rules.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
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