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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 342
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 allows a small forestland owner to harvest certain trees. The Act allows an
agency to adopt rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Provides that a small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation requirements may
harvest the trees. Specifies that reforestation requirements apply after the trees have been har-
vested. Allows the State Board of Forestry to adopt rules.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to small forestland owners.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) A small forestland owner that planted one or more trees on or before the
effective date of this 2025 Act to comply with reforestation requirements under ORS 527.610
to 527.770 may, notwithstanding any contrary provision of reforestation requirements for the
forestland, harvest the trees.
(2) The reforestation requirements under ORS 527.610 to 527.770 apply to the forestland
after the trees have been harvested.
(3) The State Board of Forestry may adopt rules necessary to implement the provisions
of this section.
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 1598