| OR | SB985 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to a state agency for programs related to wolves. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Department of Agriculture for deposit in the Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Tru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB777 | Intro
25% | The Act provides that payments for injury to livestock or working dogs must be based on fair market value and other factors. The Act caps payments. The Act removes payment for lost livestock. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9). Provides that compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB830 | Intro
25% | This Act changes laws for the on-site septic system loan program to allow for grants and to expand who qualifies for help. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Modifies provisions of the on-site septic system loan program to allow for grants. Expands el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB494 | Intro
25% | The Act tells DAS to look at forestry and fire jobs and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.0). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study classification and compensation for forestry and wildland fire positions in st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB504 | Intro
25% | This Act makes LCDC and OPRD adopt bioengineering rules to protect the coast. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to allow soil bioengineering systems for shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB427 | Intro
25% | The Act prohibits certain changes related to water that will reduce the flow of streams. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Prohibits certain proposed changes related to the appropriation or use of water that will result in the diminishment of streamf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB793 | Intro
25% | This Act directs the Director of the Department of State Lands to establish fees and rates for easements on state land. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the Director of the Department of State Lands to establish application fees and compensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB795 | Intro
25% | The Act changes laws about the cleanup of marine vessels that have been left alone or that are in bad shape. (Flesch Readability Score: 100.0). Modifies the meaning of terms used for purposes of the abandoned and derelict vessel laws. Clarifies that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB812 | Intro
25% | The Act makes a certain hunting program permanent. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Repeals a sunset to make the landowner preference program permanent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | HB2163 | Engross
50% | The Act amends a part of the wildlife laws. The Act is about allowing persons with certain disabilities to fish and harvest shellfish. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Classifies a person with a documented intellectual or developmental disability as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB1064 | Intro
25% | The Act concerns permits to use water. The Act tells an agency that issues the permits to consider water basins. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Directs the Water Resources Department to consider water basins in which permitted activity will occur ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB432 | Intro
25% | The Act concerns fires that start on federal lands. The Act tells the forester and certain entities to take actions to address this type of fire. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Instructs the forester, or a forest protective association or agency t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB986 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to an agency for the brand inspection program. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture out of the General Fund for purposes related to the brand inspection program. Declares an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB354 | Intro
25% | The Act changes a program for voluntarily moving beavers. The Act makes the voluntary program include moving beavers from one part of this state to a different part of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the State Department of Fish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB976 | Intro
25% | The Act says a person might be allowed to do certain jobs with animals, like taking care of horses' teeth or checking if cows are pregnant, even if they are not veterinarians. Allows the ODA to adopt rules to explain when this is okay. (Flesch Readab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB208 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to study seaweed production. The Act gives money for the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Directs the State Department of Agriculture, in partnership with Oregon State University, to study the potential for developing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB1019 | Intro
25% | The Act increases the maximum for fees related to brands on livestock. The Act says that certain brand program requirements do not apply to dairy cows. The Act repeals the brand program later. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Increases the maximum f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB817 | Intro
25% | This bill raises fees for some LUBA filings. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Increases fees for filing a notice of intent to appeal and a motion to intervene with the Land Use Board of Appeals. Eliminates the awarding of fees for filing a notice of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB845 | Intro
25% | Allows the PUC to order a water utility that is not able to provide service to be bought. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes the Public Utility Commission to order the acquisition of an incumbent water utility by another water utility or en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB1025 | Intro
25% | This Act requires DLCD to study lodging near water. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study lodging near waterways and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB809 | Intro
25% | The Act clarifies that poultry are part of a state program of meat inspection. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Clarifies that the State Department of Agriculture may inspect poultry products under the state meat inspection program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB836 | Intro
25% | This Act increases fees charged by DOGAMI. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Increases fees charged by the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB1028 | Intro
25% | This Act requires ODA to study and make a report on manure digesters. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the State Department of Agriculture to study manure digesters. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB769 | Intro
25% | The Act makes it lawful to use dogs to hunt cougars in a county if county voters approve. The Act tells the county to notify an agency. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0). Provides that a county is exempt from the applicability of a statute banning the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB1017 | Intro
25% | The Act would exclude certain public lands from the OFPA. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Excludes certain public lands from the provisions of the Oregon Forest Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB511 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the DSL to make a pilot program for owners of land to restore salmon habitat. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB747 | Intro
25% | The Act tells certain persons to report the use of fertilizer on farmland. The Act allows agencies to take certain actions about the reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB860 | Intro
25% | Allows the State Fire Marshal and an agency to take actions for fire protection. Makes changes related to a fire policy council. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Grants certain authorities to the State Fire Marshal and the Department of the State Fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB861 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes related to funding for fighting fires. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Makes certain changes related to the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund. Instructs the Department of the State Fire Marshal to report on certain amounts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB863 | Intro
25% | The Act allows the State Fire Marshal to recover costs from persons who start fires. The Act allows certain actions related to cost recovery. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to seek cost recovery for the actual cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB862 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes about fire districts. The Act tells an agency to adopt a base fire prevention code. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.9). Makes certain changes related to rural fire protection districts. Instructs the Department of the State Fire M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB885 | Intro
25% | Tells a state agency to make fire insurance and property insurance available to people in this state to protect against wild fires. Sets up a fund for this purpose. Says that the agency must focus on insurance in areas where insurers do not do enough...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB876 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the state to offer certain lands for sale to Coos County. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Directs the State Board of Forestry, on behalf of the State of Oregon, to offer to convey certain real property to Coos County under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB887 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency head to hire an organic policy specialist. The Act describes the tasks of the new specialist. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2). Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the directo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB372 | Intro
25% | The Act removes limits on canola in a certain valley. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Repeals restrictions on brassica production in the Willamette Valley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB664 | Intro
25% | This Act says that mines that use air, water or froth to remove metal from ore are gravity separation mines. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Provides that mines solely using gravity separation shall be deemed gravity separation mines. Modifies the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB363 | Intro
25% | The Act extends a grant program for places that process and sell meat products. The Act ends the grant program on January 2, 2028. The Act gives money for the grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.0). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB479 | Intro
25% | This Act says that DEQ may not find that a sewer is available to a property unless it is less than 200 feet from the property. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from determining, for purposes of issui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB678 | Intro
25% | The Act undoes changes in law by Senate Bill 762 (2021). The changes concern how to class wildfire risk. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Undoes wildfire protection provisions adopted in Senate Bill 762 (2021). Declares an emergency, effective July ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB515 | Intro
25% | This Act gives money to the DAS to give to the Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby for projects on the Rogue River. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB79 | Intro
25% | This Act bans homes not for farm or forest uses in sensitive or unsuitable areas of lands zoned for farm or forest use. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Prohibits certain dwellings in sensitive or unsuitable areas within resource lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB350 | Intro
25% | The Act finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls. The Act tells an agency to take actions to reduce the numbers of barred owls. The Act gives money for one of the actions. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.8). Finds that barred owls are known to prey ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB788 | Intro
25% | This Act allows some events on eastern Oregon farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB638 | Intro
25% | The Act says some persons may cut trees without following certain laws. The Act says that the laws apply again after the trees are cut. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.4). Provides that a small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB351 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money for a program for taking certain fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB371 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the Department of State Lands to ask the U.S. government to transfer some U.S. public lands to the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8). Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB336 | Intro
25% | The Act gives moneys to an agency for a certain grant program. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture, out of the General Fund, for the purpose of developing a grant program to fund the constructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB78 | Intro
25% | This Act limits the size of replacement homes on forest or farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Establishes maximum size of replacement dwellings on lands zoned for forest or farm use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB673 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to allow the use of water from the Columbia River in eastern Oregon. The Act tells agencies to grant easements to help the use occur. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Instructs the Water Resources Commission to allow the appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
| OR | SB337 | Intro
25% | This Act permits counties to allow smaller farm or forest parcels. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Allows counties to authorize the subdivision of land zoned for exclusive farm use or forest use into parcels no smaller than the average size of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee |
