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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3117
Sponsored by Representative OWENS (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 tells an agency to study ways to fund responses to natural disasters. The Act
tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2).
Directs the State Forestry Department to study funding for preventing, responding to and re-
covering from natural disasters.Directs the department to report on the study to the committees
or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than Sep-
tember 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to funding for responses to natural disasters.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The State Forestry Department shall study mechanisms for funding re-
sponses to wildfire and other natural disasters.
(2) The study must:
(a) Examine sources of potential funding, including international, federal, state, local and
privateaid.
(b) Examine models for cost sharing between levels of government and private
stakeholders.
(c) Examine insurance-based solutions and public-private partnerships.
(d) Examine disaster relief funds and emergency management frameworks.
(e) Examine models of long-term, sustainable funding for natural disaster prevention,
response and recovery.
(f) Examine the impact of climate change on funding needs and adaptation strategies.
(g) Identify innovative and sustainable funding solutions that can be adapted for Oregon’s
wildfire and nature disaster preparedness and response systems.
(h) Evaluate the effectiveness of various funding models in meeting immediate response
needs, achieving long-term recovery and mitigating natural disasters.
(i) Analyze the equity and accessibility of different funding approaches for communities
most vulnerable to wildfire and natural disasters.
(3) The department shall submit a report on the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the committees or interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September
15,2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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