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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5040
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).
Limits expenditures of lottery funds from the Watershed Conservation Grant Fund for local
grant expenditures by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for a six-year period beginning
July 1, 2025.
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. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$107,812,436 is established for a six-year period 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 Grant Fund from the Parks and Natural Re-
sources Fund, for local grant expenditure purposes listed in Article XV, section 4b, of the
OregonConstitution.
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
July 1, 2025.
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 9040