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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 361
Ordered by the Senate May 1
Including Senate Amendments dated May 1
Sponsored by Senators SMITH DB, ANDERSON; Senator WEBER (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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act gives money to OBDD to give to ports for dredging projects. (Flesch
Readability Score: 89.5).
[Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give to ports for dredging projects. (Flesch Readability
Score: 89.5).]
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the [Oregon Department of Administrative Ser-
vices] Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to specified ports to carry out
dredging projects.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to port dredging; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Business Development Department, for the biennium beginning July 1,
2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts for distribution to the following recip-
ients to carry out dredging projects in channels and marinas that are not maintained by the
United States Army Corps of Engineers, provided that recipients either use a dredge owned
by the recipient or obtain a quote for dredging services using the dredge owned by the State
of Oregon:
(1) Port of Brookings Harbor: $50,000.
(2) Port of Bandon: $225,000.
(3) Port of Newport: $750,000.
(4) Port of Astoria: $381,373.
(5) Oregon International Port of Coos Bay: $350,000.
(6) Port of Garibaldi: $400,000.
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: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 1580