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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3328
Sponsored by Representative OWENS (at the request of Commissioner Jim Hamsher)
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 would let Grant County use road fund moneys from federal forest reserves
payments to patrol roads in the county. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Adds Grant County to the list of counties that may use road fund moneys from federal forest
reserves payments for patrolling on the county’s roads.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to expending county road fund moneys for patrolling; amending ORS 368.706; and declaring
an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 368.706 is amended to read:
368.706. (1) Notwithstanding ORS 294.060 and 368.705, moneys described in ORS 294.060 (1) that
are received by a county listed in subsection (2) of this section and deposited into that county’s road
fund may be expended for patrolling within the county by the county’s law enforcement officials.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section applies to:
(a) Coos County;
(b) Curry County;
(c) Douglas County;
(d) Grant County;
[(d)] (e) Josephine County;
[(e)] (f) Klamath County;
[(f)] (g) Lane County; and
[(g)] (h) Linn County.
(3) Moneys in a county’s road fund and expended for patrolling under subsection (1) of this
section may be used solely for direct costs and indirect costs associated with patrolling.
(4) As used in this section:
(a)(A) “Direct costs” means costs that can, with a high degree of accuracy, be identified specif-
ically with or directly assigned to a particular award, project, program, service or other organiza-
tional activity.
(B) “Direct costs” includes, but is not limited to, salaries, travel, equipment and supplies directly
related to patrolling by the county’s law enforcement officials.
(b)(A) “Indirect costs” means costs incurred for common or joint objectives that are not direct
costs.
(B) “Indirect costs” includes, but is not limited to, the costs of operating and maintaining facil-
ities, depreciation, administrative expenses and dispatch.
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 4002 HB3328
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(c) “Patrolling” means the activities of a county law enforcement official that are in response
to calls for service or initiated by the county law enforcement official.
SECTION 2. 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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