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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3165
Sponsored by Representatives MARSH, GOMBERG, Senators ANDERSON, GIROD, GOLDEN (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: Allows more state moneys to be spent for school districts that were impacted by
wildfires. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
Transfers moneys from amounts retained in the Fund for Student Success to the School Stabili-
zation Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School Districts and increases the expenditure limitation for
payment of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services for the Department of Education for
the 2023-2025 biennium for the purpose of awarding grants to school districts impacted by wildfires.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state moneys for school districts impacted by wildfires; creating new provisions;
amending sections 7 and 8, chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 7, chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022, is amended to read:
Sec. 7. Sections 2 and 4 [of this 2022 Act], chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022, are repealed on
[July 1, 2025] September 30, 2025.
SECTION 2. Section 8, chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022, is amended to read:
Sec. 8. (1) On [July 1, 2025] September 30, 2025, the School Stabilization Subaccount for
Wildfire-impacted School Districts established under section 4 [of this 2022 Act], chapter 43, Oregon
Laws 2022, is abolished.
(2) Any moneys remaining in the School Stabilization Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School
Districts on [July 1, 2025] September 30, 2025, shall be transferred to the Statewide Education In-
itiatives Account.
SECTION 3.From the amounts retained in the Fund for Student Success as described in
ORS 327.001 (4)(b), the Department of Education shall transfer $6,100,000 to the School Sta-
bilization Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School Districts established under section 4,
chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022, for the purpose of awarding grants as provided by section 2,
chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the limitation on
expenditures established by section 7 (4), chapter 449, Oregon Laws 2023, for the biennium
ending June 30, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment of grants-in-aid, program costs and
purchased services from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts,
but excluding lottery funds, corporate activity tax funds and federal funds, collected or re-
ceived by the Department of Education for programs other than those specified in sections
6 and 15, chapter 449, Oregon Laws 2023, for all other grants, is increased by $6,100,000, for
expenditures from the School Stabilization Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School Districts
established in section 4, chapter 43, Oregon Laws 2022.
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 978 HB3165
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SECTION 5. Notwithstanding ORS 327.001, the amount transferred as provided by section
3 of this 2025 Act does not apply to the percentage-based transfers of moneys requirement
described in ORS 327.001 (4)(c).
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
on its passage.
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