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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3264
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 DPSST to look at fire service professional training standards and make a
report. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study fire service profes-
sional training standards.Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of
Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fire service professional training standards; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1)(a) The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training shall study
fire service professional training standards.
(b) In conducting the study, the department shall consider standards developed by the
National Fire Protection Association for the organization and deployment to the public of fire
suppression operations, emergency medical operations and special operations by career and
volunteer fire departments.
(2) The department shall submit its findings in a report in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to emergency management no later than September 15, 2026.
The report shall include, but need not be limited to:
(a) Recommendations for modifications to existing standards based on the standards de-
scribed in subsection (1)(b) of this section; and
(b) Guidance to fire departments for implementing the standards described in subsection
(1)(b) of this section.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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 3355