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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3530
Sponsored by Representative HARTMAN, Senators BROADMAN, GELSER BLOUIN; Representatives FRAGALA,
GAMBA, MCDONALD, PHAM H, WALTERS, Senators FREDERICK, MANNING JR, PATTERSON, WOODS
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 requires the term “squaw” to be removed from highway names. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 88.9).
Directs public bodies to change the name of highways that use the term “squaw” in the name.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to highway names; amending ORS 271.600.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 271.600 is amended to read:
271.600. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Highway” has the meaning given that term in ORS 366.005.
[(a)] (b) “Indian tribe” has the meaning given that term in ORS 97.740.
[(b)] (c) “Public body” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.109.
[(c)] (d) “Public property” has the meaning given that term in ORS 131.705.
(2) A public body may not use the term “squaw” in the name of a public property or highway.
(3) When a public body changes a name that contains the term “squaw,” the public body shall
consider as the replacement name a term or phrase in the language of an Indian tribe.
(4) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply if:
(a) Federal law requires the use of the term “squaw”; or
(b) The highway or public property is a geographic feature that an agency of the United States
names using the term “squaw.”
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 3466