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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 84
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire)
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: Tells a city or county that went by earlier building code rules to protect houses against
wild fires that the city or county can still use the earlier rules even if the state makes new rules.
Says that the city or county shall keep using the rules that it used before. (Flesch Readability Score:
68.1).
Exempts local governments that adopted and continue to enforce certain wildfire hazard miti-
gation standards from the application of state standards that are based on specified wildfire hazard
classes.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to local government authority on wildfire policy; amending ORS 455.612.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 455.612 is amended to read:
455.612. (1) For the high wildfire hazard zone in the wildland-urban interface that is identified
[pursuant to] under ORS 477.490, the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall adopt
wildfire hazard mitigation building code standards that apply to new dwellings and the accessory
structures of dwellings, as described in section R327 of the 2021 Oregon Residential Specialty Code.
(2) The department shall amend section R327 of the Oregon Residential Specialty Code to in-
clude standards for additions to existing dwellings and accessory structures and for replacement of
existing exterior elements covered in section R327 of the 2021 Oregon Residential Specialty Code.
(3) The department shall incorporate the standards described in subsections (1) and (2) of this
section into any updates to the Oregon Residential Specialty Code.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) to (3) of this section, a local government that before
July 19, 2021, adopted and continues to enforce wildfire hazard mitigation building code
standards described in section R327 of the 2021 Oregon Residential Specialty Code is not
subject to restrictions based on the wildfire hazard classifications described in subsection (1)
of this section. The local government shall adhere to the version of section R327 of the
Oregon Residential Specialty Code that the local government most recently adopted.
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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