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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 351
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 for a program for taking certain fish. (Flesch Readability Score:
80.3).
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding
programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the capture of pikeminnow; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There is appropriated to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $100,000 for the
purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of a pikeminnow, if the take com-
plies with the wildlife laws. This appropriation is available continuously until expended for
the purpose specified in this section.
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 3013