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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2356
Sponsored by Representative MCLAIN (at the request of Metro Regional Government) (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Adds lands that are inside Metro’s UGB to Metro district upon adding to a Metro city.
(Flesch Readability Score:63.6).
Adds lands to a metropolitan service district when those lands are within Metro’s urban growth
boundary and annexed by a city in Metro.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a metropolitan service district boundaries; creating new provisions; and amending ORS
268.354.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 268.
SECTION 2.Notwithstanding the requirements for boundary changes under ORS 268.354
and ORS chapter 198, when a city within the urban growth boundary of a metropolitan ser-
vice district annexes a territory under ORS chapter 222 and that territory is within the ur-
ban growth boundary of the district under ORS chapter 222, the territory is annexed to the
district without further proceedings.
SECTION 3.Section 2 of this 2025 Act applies to territories annexed by a city on or after
the effective date of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. ORS 268.354 is amended to read:
268.354. (1) In addition to the requirements established by ORS chapters 198, 221 and 222 for a
boundary change, a metropolitan service district, in consultation with the Metro Policy Advisory
Committee, may establish requirements for a boundary change that is subject to the jurisdiction of
the district pursuant to ORS 268.347.
(2) For a boundary change that is subject to the jurisdiction of the district pursuant to ORS
268.347, the district shall:
(a) Establish a uniform hearing and notification process.
(b) Establish an expedited process for uncontested boundary changes.
(c) Establish clear and objective criteria for a boundary change.
(d) Ensure that a boundary change is in compliance with the Metro regional framework plan,
as defined in ORS 197.015, and cooperative agreements and urban service agreements adopted pur-
suant to ORS chapter 195.
(3) The role of a metropolitan service district in the boundary determination process shall be
ministerialonly.
(4) Except as provided in this section and ORS 268.347 and 268.351, for a boundary change
subject to the jurisdiction of the metropolitan service district:
(a) Proceedings for annexation of territory to a city and for all other changes in city boundaries
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1270 HB2356
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shall be conducted as provided in ORS chapter 222.
(b) Proceedings for annexation of territory to a district, and for all other changes to the
boundaries of a district, shall be conducted as provided in ORS chapter 198. Notwithstanding ORS
268.020, as used in this paragraph, “district” has the meaning given that term in ORS 268.351.
(c) Proceedings for annexation of territory to the metropolitan service district, including
annexation of territory not within the urban growth boundary of the district, and for all other
changes to the boundaries of the district shall be conducted as provided in ORS chapter 198.
(d) Notwithstanding contrary provisions regarding the party responsible for conducting hearings
under ORS chapter 198, the metropolitan service district is the governing body responsible for con-
ducting proceedings for a minor boundary change to the district. Except for a change to the district
boundary by adoption of an urban growth boundary under ORS 268.390 or annexation under sec-
tion 2 of this 2025 Act, proceedings for a minor boundary change to the boundaries of a district
shall be conducted as provided in ORS chapter 198.
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