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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3270
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 adds more members to the Emergency Board. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
Expands the membership of the Emergency Board.
Becomes operative upon adjournment sine die of the 2027 regular session of the Legislative
Assembly.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Emergency Board; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 291.326 and 291.330.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 291.330 is amended to read:
291.330. The Emergency Board shall be composed of:
(1) The President of the Senate[,];
(2) The Speaker of the House of Representatives[, the chairpersons of the Senate and House Ways
and Means Committees, eight];
(3) Seven other members of the Senate, at least four of whom shall have had some previous
experience on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means [Committee], to be appointed by the Pres-
ident [of the Senate] and confirmed by a majority of all the members elected to the Senate[,]; and
(4) [eight] Fourteen other members of the House, at least four of whom shall have had some
previous experience on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means [Committee], to be appointed by
the Speaker and confirmed by a majority of all the members elected to the House.
SECTION 2. ORS 291.326 is amended to read:
291.326. (1) The Emergency Board, during the interim between sessions of the Legislative As-
sembly, may exercise the following powers:
(a) Where an emergency exists, to allocate to any state agency, out of any emergency fund that
may be appropriated to the Emergency Board for that purpose, additional funds beyond the amount
appropriated to the agency by the Legislative Assembly, or funds to carry on an activity required
by law for which an appropriation was not made.
(b) Where an emergency exists, to authorize any state agency to expend, from funds dedicated
or continuously appropriated for the uses and purposes of the agency, sums in excess of the amount
of the budget of the agency as approved in accordance with law.
(c) In the case of a new activity coming into existence at such a time as to preclude the possi-
bility of submitting a budget to the Legislative Assembly for approval, to approve, or revise and
approve, a budget of the money appropriated for such new activity.
(d) Where an emergency exists, to revise or amend the budgets of state agencies to the extent
of authorizing transfers between expenditure classifications within the budget of an agency.
[(2) No allocation, authorization or approval under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) of this section shall
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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be effective unless made at a meeting at which 10 members of the board were present.]
[(3)] (2) The laws enacted by the Legislative Assembly making appropriations and limiting
expenditures, or either, are not intended to limit the powers of the Emergency Board.
SECTION 3. The amendments to ORS 291.326 and 291.330 by sections 1 and 2 of this 2025
Act become operative upon adjournment sine die of the 2027 regular session of the Eighty-
fourth Legislative Assembly.
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