Oregon Senate Bill 1153

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Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Introduced on February 27 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-03-03 - Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

The Act tells an agency to consider if changes to water rights will affect the public interest. The Act tells the agency to allow tribes to review certain requests to change water rights. The Act allows the agency to condition water right changes in certain ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Water Resources Department to consider whether certain water right transfers will result in a loss of in-stream habitat for sensitive, threatened or endangered aquatic species in stream reaches not protected by an existing water right or contribute to water quality impairment in water quality limited streams. Directs the department to provide an opportunity for tribes to review certain water right transfer applications. Authorizes the department to condition water right transfers with water use measurement and reporting, water level measurement and reporting or the installation of fish screening or by-pass devices.

Relating to water.

Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-03	Senate	Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.
2025-02-27	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB1153
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1153/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/86928