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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5039
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Oregon Department of
AdministrativeServices)
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 budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for
certain biennial expenses.
Directs board to allocate moneys from the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund to various
state agencies to implement Article XV, section 4b, of the Oregon Constitution.
Limits biennial expenditures by the board from federal funds and lottery moneys.
Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Re-
ceipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the board.
Directs the board to establish by rule a process for allocating available moneys in the Natural
Resources Subaccount of the Parks and Natural Resources Fund.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board; and declaring
anemergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, for
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, for the
following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$1,967,700
(2)Grants.......................................$7,000,000
SECTION 2.Of the moneys deposited into the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund
established under ORS 541.945, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board shall allocate
$11,443,643 to the Department of State Police for fish and wildlife activities to implement
Article XV, section 4b, of the Oregon Constitution.
SECTION 3.Of the moneys deposited into the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund
established under ORS 541.945, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board shall allocate
$7,315,661 to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for activities and projects to imple-
ment Article XV, section 4b, of the Oregon Constitution.
SECTION 4.Of the moneys deposited into the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund
established under ORS 541.945, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board shall allocate
$8,936,239 to the State Department of Agriculture for activities and projects to implement
Article XV, section 4b, of the Oregon Constitution.
SECTION 5.Of the moneys deposited into the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund
established under ORS 541.945, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board shall allocate
$6,954,668 to the Department of Environmental Quality for activities and projects to imple-
ment Article XV, section 4b, of the Oregon Constitution.
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
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 9039 HB5039
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SECTION 6. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$11,443,476 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board from lottery moneys
deposited into the Watershed Conservation Operating Fund established under ORS 541.945,
for operating expenses, activities and projects to implement Article XV, section 4b, of the
OregonConstitution.
SECTION 7. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $711,079
is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for payment of
expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Devel-
opment Fund to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for debt service.
SECTION 8. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but ex-
cluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon Watershed En-
hancement Board, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$4,027,809
(2)Grants.......................................$39,505,582
SECTION 9.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from federal funds collected or received by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement
Board, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$3,621,463
(2)Grants.......................................$57,970,114
SECTION 10. (1) The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board shall establish by rule a
process for allocating on a quarterly basis available moneys in the Natural Resources Sub-
account of the Parks and Natural Resources Fund, established under ORS 541.942, to fulfill
the biennial allocations made in this 2025 Act. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this
section, all quarterly allocations shall be set at one-eighth of the biennial allocations.
(2) If, in any quarter, the moneys transferred from the Oregon State Lottery Fund to the
Parks and Natural Resources Fund are insufficient to pay for the quarterly allocations es-
tablished under subsection (1) of this section, the allocations shall be reduced proportionately
by amounts sufficient to accommodate the revenue shortfall.
SECTION 11.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
July 1, 2025.
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