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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3136
Ordered by the House March 28
Including House Amendments dated March 28
Sponsored by Representative BREESE-IVERSON, Senators MEEK, ANDERSON; Representative OSBORNE (Pre-
sessionfiled.)
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: This Act lets more land professionals serve on planning commissions. (Flesch Readability
Score:61.3).
Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city
or county planning commission for commissions with more than five members .
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to composition of planning commissions; amending ORS 215.030 and 227.030.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 215.030 is amended to read:
215.030. (1) The county planning commission shall consist of five, seven or nine members ap-
pointed by the governing body for four-year terms, or until their respective successors are appointed
and qualified[; provided that in the first instance], except that the terms of the initial members
[shall] must be staggered for one, two, three and four years.
(2) A commission member may be removed by the governing body, after hearing, for misconduct
or nonperformance of duty.
(3) Any vacancy on the commission [shall] must be filled by the governing body for the unex-
piredterm.
(4) Members of the commission shall serve without compensation other than reimbursement for
duly authorized expenses.
(5) Members of a commission [shall] must be residents of the various geographic areas of the
county. If the commission has five or fewer members, no more than two voting members
[shall] may be engaged principally in the buying, selling or developing of real estate for profit, as
individuals, or be members of any partnership or officers or employees of any corporation that is
engaged principally in the buying, selling or developing of real estate for profit. No more than two
voting members [shall] may be engaged in the same kind of occupation, business, trade or profes-
sion.
(6) The governing body may designate one or more officers of the county to be nonvoting mem-
bers of the commission.
(7) Except for subsection (5) of this section, the governing body may provide by ordinance for
alternative rules to those specified in this section.
SECTION 2. ORS 227.030 is amended to read:
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 3499 A-Eng. HB 3136
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227.030. (1) Not more than two members of a city planning commission may be city officers, who
shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members.
(2) A member of such a commission may be removed by the appointing authority, after hearing,
for misconduct or nonperformance of duty.
(3) Any vacancy in [such a commission shall] the commission must be filled by the appointing
authority for the unexpired term of the predecessor in the office.
(4) If the commission has five or fewer members, no more than two voting members of the
commission may engage principally in the buying, selling or developing of real estate for profit as
individuals, or be members of any partnership, or officers or employees of any corporation, that en-
gages principally in the buying, selling or developing of real estate for profit. No more than two
members [shall] may be engaged in the same kind of occupation, business, trade or profession.
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