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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3310
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 creates an agency to encourage certain acts related to ensuring there is food
throughout this state. The Act tells the agency to create a related grant program. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 63.7).
Establishes the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission. Requires the commission
to develop and administer a grant program to provide grants for increasing the amount, availability
and security of regional foodstuff supplies.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to regional foodstuff supplies.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
OREGON STRATEGIC RESILIENCE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
(Establishment; Appointment; Term; Confirmation; Per Diem)
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission is established.
(2) The commission consists of seven members appointed by the Governor.
(3) The term of office of each member of the commission is four years, but a member
serves at the pleasure of the Governor. Before the expiration of the term of a member, the
Governor shall appoint a successor whose term begins on January 1 next following. A
member is eligible for reappointment. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the Governor shall
make an appointment to become immediately effective for the unexpired term.
(4) The appointment of each member of the commission is subject to confirmation by the
Senate in the manner prescribed in ORS 171.562 and 171.565.
(5) A member of the commission is entitled to compensation and expenses as provided in
ORS 292.495.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the term of office specified by section 1 of this 2025 Act,
of the members first appointed to the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commis-
sion:
(1) One shall serve for a term ending January 1, 2027.
(2) Two shall serve for terms ending January 1, 2028.
(3) Two shall serve for terms ending January 1, 2029.
(4) Two shall serve for terms ending January 1, 2030.
(Qualification of Members)
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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SECTION 3. The members of the Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission
must be residents of this state who are well informed in issues regarding agriculture, fishing,
food processing, retail food sales or other business sectors the Governor deems critical to
developing a foodstuff supply system that will be sustainable following a major seismic event.
(Officers of Commission; Quorum; Meetings)
SECTION 4. (1) The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission shall select
one of its members as chairperson and another as vice chairperson, for terms and with du-
ties and powers necessary for the performance of the functions of the offices as the com-
missiondetermines.
(2) A majority of the members of the commission constitutes a quorum for the trans-
action of business.
(3) The commission shall meet at times and places specified by the call of the chairperson
or of a majority of the members of the commission.
(Employees)
SECTION 5.(1) The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission shall appoint
a director to serve at the pleasure of the commission.
(2) The designation of the director must be by written order, filed with the Secretary of
State.
(3) Subject to any applicable provisions of ORS chapter 240, the director shall appoint all
subordinate officers and employees of the commission, prescribe their duties and fix their
compensation.
(Authority to Adopt Rules)
SECTION 6. In accordance with applicable provisions of ORS chapter 183, the Oregon
Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission may adopt rules necessary for the adminis-
tration of the laws that the commission is charged with administering.
(Oaths; Witnesses; Subpoenas)
SECTION 7.The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission and the director
and authorized representatives of the commission may administer oaths, take depositions
and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents
or other written information necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 1 to 9 of this
2025 Act. If any person fails to comply with a subpoena issued under this section or refuses
to testify on matters on which the person lawfully may be interrogated, the procedure set
out in ORS 183.440 shall be followed to compel obedience.
(Advisory and Technical Committees)
SECTION 8.(1) The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission may establish
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any advisory or technical committee the commission considers necessary to aid and advise
the commission in the performance of its functions. The committees may be continuing or
temporary committees. The commission shall determine the representation, membership,
terms and organization of the committees and shall appoint the members of the committees.
(2) Members of the committees are not entitled to compensation but, in the discretion
of the commission, may be reimbursed from funds available to the commission for actual and
necessary travel and other expenses incurred by the members in the performance of official
duties in the manner and amount provided in ORS 292.495.
OREGON STRATEGIC CARBON REDUCTION GRANTS
SECTION 9. (1) The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission shall develop
and administer a program to provide grants for increasing the amount, availability and se-
curity of regional foodstuff supplies. The commission shall design the program to include,
but not necessarily be limited to:
(a) Establishing an Oregon Strategic Resiliency Self-Sufficiency Region, consisting of a
300-mile diameter circle having a center near the geographic center of this state, as the
production area for measuring the self-sufficiency of this state in foodstuff production;
(b) Establishing and administering a grant program to encourage increased regional
production of all foodstuffs consumed within this state;
(c) Expanding regional foodstuff processing capacities including, but not limited to, ex-
pansion achieved through grants and other targeted strategic investments to meet the
foodstuff production needs of this state;
(d) Establishing and administering a grant program that provides grants to at-risk
foodstuff retailers to ensure the continued availability of critical foodstuffs in vulnerable
areas of this state, all as defined by the commission; and
(e) Establishing partnerships to secure the best use of newly available foodstuff resources
when those resources are not needed for responding to a major seismic event, including but
not limited to partnerships with local and regional nonprofit organizations and public and
privateenterprises.
(2) The commission shall establish grant schedules for purposes of subsection (1)(b) and
(c) of this section that are based on the reduction in carbon emissions achieved through the
delivery of regionally produced foodstuffs to supply regional markets.
SECTION 10. The Oregon Strategic Resilience Sustainability Commission shall establish
and administer the program described in section 9 of this 2025 Act with the goal of achieving
on or before December 31, 2037:
(1) Identification of the Oregon Strategic Resiliency Self-Sufficiency Region described in
section 9 (1)(a) of this 2025 Act;
(2) Regional production of 50 percent of all foodstuffs consumed within this state;
(3) Expansion of foodstuff processing facilities within the Oregon Strategic Resiliency
Self-Sufficiency Region sufficient to process all regionally produced foodstuffs consumed
within this state;
(4) The making of targeted strategic investments to develop regional foodstuff resources
sufficient to meet this state’s anticipated foodstuff production needs following a major seis-
mic event;
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(5) Arrangements for the payment of grants to at-risk foodstuff retailers sufficient to
ensure the continued availability of critical foodstuffs in vulnerable areas of this state as
described in section 9 (1)(d) of this 2025 Act; and
(6) Establishment of sufficient partnerships to secure the best use of newly available
foodstuff resources when those resources are not needed for responding to a major seismic
event, including but not limited to partnerships with local and regional nonprofit organiza-
tions and public and private enterprises.
SECTION 11. Section 10 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2038.
CAPTIONS
SECTION 12.The unit captions used in this 2025 Act are provided only for the conven-
ience of the reader and do not become part of the statutory law of this state or express any
legislative intent in the enactment of this 2025 Act.
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