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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 339
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 gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force. (Flesch Readability Score:
78.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes re-
lated to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Sudden Oak Death; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appro-
priated to the State Forestry Department, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $3,100,000, which shall be placed into the State Forestry De-
partment Account and expended for carrying out an integrated pest management program
under ORS 527.310 to 527.370 to combat the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
(2) The department shall expend $50,000 of the moneys appropriated under this section
as a block grant to assist the Association of Oregon Counties with establishing and operating
a task force to encourage and coordinate county integrated pest management programs to
combat Sudden Oak Death.
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.
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 1481