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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3101
Sponsored by Representative LIVELY (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: The Act addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act
allocates lottery money to a new Horse Racing Account. The Act tells an agency to create a master
plan for county fair building. The Act gives money related to the master plan. The Act creates the
new Horse Racing Account. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allo-
cated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually. Allocates eight-tenths of one
percent of net proceeds from the lottery to the County Fair Account and two-tenths of one percent
of net proceeds from the lottery to the Horse Racing Account.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and report a master plan for
county fairground capital construction. Specifies content and procedural requirements for the re-
port.
Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for consultant services related
to the report.
Establishes the Horse Racing Account separate and distinct from the General Fund.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to events that involve livestock; creating new provisions; amending ORS 565.447; and de-
claring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 565.447 is amended to read:
565.447. (1) Subject only to the availability of unobligated net lottery proceeds, there is allocated
from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to:
(a) The County Fair Account created under ORS 565.445 an amount equal to eight-tenths of
one percent of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery[, but not to exceed $1.53 million an-
nually, adjusted biennially pursuant to an inflation factor determined by dividing the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items), as published by the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics of the United States Department of Labor, for January 1 immediately preceding commencement
of the biennium, by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers of the Portland, Oregon,
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, as compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, for January 1, 2001.]; and
(b) The Horse Racing Account created under section 5 of this 2025 Act an amount equal
to two-tenths of one percent of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery.
(2) The allocation of moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund un-
der this section is subject to the requirements in section 4, Article XV of the Oregon Constitution,
for deposit of specified amounts of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery into the Educa-
tion Stability Fund and into the Parks and Natural Resources Fund and shall be made only after
satisfaction or payment of:
(a) Amounts allocated to Westside lottery bonds issued under ORS 391.140 or to the reserves
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.
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or any refunding related to the Westside lottery bonds in accordance with the priority for allocation
and disbursement established by ORS 391.130;
(b) All liens, pledges or other obligations relating to lottery bonds or refunding lottery bonds
due or payable during the year for which an allocation is to be made; and
(c) Amounts required by any other pledges of, or liens on, net proceeds from the Oregon State
Lottery.
SECTION 2. (1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall develop a master
plan for county fairground capital construction. The master plan shall consist of five-year
and 10-year capital construction plans for each county fairground in this state and any
findings or recommendations of the department regarding county fairground capital con-
struction.
(2) The department shall retain a consultant to work with each county fair board, the
board of directors for each fair association exercising powers under ORS 565.268 and the
board of each fair district operating under ORS 565.275 to identify the five-year and 10-year
capital construction needs for county fairground facilities. The department shall work with
the consultant in developing the master plan for county fairground capital construction, in
consultation with the Oregon Racing Commission.
(3) The department shall complete the master plan and shall report the plan in the
manner provided by ORS 192.245 to the Legislative Assembly during the 2027 regular session.
The department shall provide copies of the report to each county fair board and to the boards
for each fair association and fair district.
SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Business Development Department, for the biennium beginning July 1,
2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $250,000, which may be expended by the de-
partment for consultant services described in section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4.Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on July 1, 2027.
SECTION 5.(1) The Horse Racing Account is established separate and distinct from the
General Fund. The account shall consist of moneys deposited in the account under ORS
565.447 (1)(b). The moneys in the account are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Racing
Commission to be used as provided in subsection (2) of this section.
(2) The commission shall use the moneys in the account to:
(a) Support horse racing events held at events described in ORS 462.057 (2), and on
fairgrounds in Crook County, Josephine County, Tillamook County and Union County, by:
(A) Maintaining horse racing tracks at the fairgrounds.
(B) Advertising and promoting the horse racing events.
(C) Establishing incentives to increase participation in, and attendance at, the horse
racingevents.
(D) Purchasing horse racing equipment for use at the horse racing events.
(E) Operating the horse racing events, including paying for the costs of security, staffing,
administration and insurance.
(F) Building or maintaining horse racing infrasructure that enhances or protects the
safety or wellbeing of racehorses.
(b) Address illegal or unsanctioned horse racing within this state.
SECTION 6. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
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