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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 220
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
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 tells an agency to create a salmon nursery program. The Act tells the agency
to report on the program. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program
for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon. Directs the department to report
to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026, regarding the
establishment and operation of the program.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for program purposes.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to an incubation nursery program for salmonids; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall establish and operate a fish
incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids on salmon-bearing or potentially
salmon-bearing waterways located in the Counties of Coos, Curry or Douglas and within 100
miles of the Pacific Ocean.
SECTION 2.The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall report on the establishment
and operation of the fish incubation nursery program required under section 1 of this 2025
Act, including but not limited to any findings or recommendations of the department re-
garding the program, to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly relating to na-
tural resources in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 3.In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025,
out of the General Fund, the amount of $470,000, which the department shall expend for es-
tablishing and operating the fish incubation nursery program required under section 1 of this
2025Act.
SECTION 4.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.
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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