Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2304
Ordered by the House April 7
Including House Amendments dated April 7
Sponsored by Representatives MANNIX, EVANS, Senator ANDERSON; Representatives BOICE, DIEHL, DRAZAN,
HELFRICH, LEVY B, OSBORNE, OWENS, RESCHKE, SKARLATOS, YUNKER, Senators FREDERICK,
MEEK, PATTERSON, STARR (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 addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account.
The Act allocates lottery money to the State Fair Council. The Act tells an agency to create
a master plan for county fair building. The Act gives money related to the master plan. The
Act allows the issuance of bonds for an emergency and evacuee center. The Act gives money
to DAS for the Union County Fairgrounds. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).
[Digest: The Act addresses how lottery money is allocated to the County Fair Account. The Act
allocates lottery money to the State Fair Council. The Act tells an agency to create a master plan for
county fair building. The Act gives money related to the master plan. The Act allows the issuance of
bonds for an emergency and evacuee center. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5).]
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allo-
cated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of
net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and report a master plan for
county fairground capital construction. Specifies content and procedural requirements for the re-
port.
Appropriates moneys to the department out of the General Fund for consultant services related
to the report.
Authorizes the issuance of bonds under Article XI-Q of the Oregon Constitution to support the
use of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center as a regional emergency and evacuee center.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for water and
sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fairs; creating new provisions; amending ORS 565.447; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 565.447 is amended to read:
565.447. (1) Subject only to the availability of unobligated net lottery proceeds, there is allocated
from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to :
(a) The County Fair Account created under ORS 565.445 an amount equal to nine-tenths of
one percent of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery[ , but not to exceed $1.53 million an-
nually, adjusted biennially pursuant to an inflation factor determined by dividing the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items), as published by the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics of the United States Department of Labor, for January 1 immediately preceding commencement
of the biennium, by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers of the Portland, Oregon,
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, as compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, for January 1, 2001. ]; and
(b) The State Fair Council, for deposit as described in ORS 565.539, an amount equal to
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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one-tenth of one percent of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery. Moneys allo-
cated to the council under this paragraph shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any
moneys otherwise typically provided to the council by the Oregon Department of Adminis-
trative Services.
(2) The allocation of moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund un-
der this section is subject to the requirements in section 4, Article XV of the Oregon Constitution,
for deposit of specified amounts of the net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery into the Educa-
tion Stability Fund and into the Parks and Natural Resources Fund and shall be made only after
satisfaction or payment of:
(a) Amounts allocated to Westside lottery bonds issued under ORS 391.140 or to the reserves
or any refunding related to the Westside lottery bonds in accordance with the priority for allocation
and disbursement established by ORS 391.130;
(b) All liens, pledges or other obligations relating to lottery bonds or refunding lottery bonds
due or payable during the year for which an allocation is to be made; and
(c) Amounts required by any other pledges of, or liens on, net proceeds from the Oregon State
Lottery.
SECTION 2.
(1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall develop a master
plan for county fairground capital construction. The master plan shall consist of five-year
and 10-year capital construction plans for each county fairground in this state and any
findings or recommendations of the department regarding county fairground capital con-
struction.
(2) The department shall retain a consultant to work with each county fair board, the
board of directors for each fair association exercising powers under ORS 565.268 and the
board of each fair district operating under ORS 565.275 to identify the five-year and 10-year
capital construction needs for county fairground facilities. The department shall work with
the consultant in developing the master plan for county fairground capital construction.
(3) The department shall complete the master plan and shall submit a report on the
master plan in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 to the interim committees of the Legis-
lative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2026. The depart-
ment shall provide copies of the report to each county fair board and to the boards for each
fair association and fair district.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on July 1, 2027.
SECTION 4. 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 amount of $250,000, which may be expended by the de-
partment for consultant services described under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 5. (1) In addition to and not in lieu of any authorization to issue general obli-
gation bonds under ORS 286A.035, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, at the request of
the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, the State Treasurer may issue Article
XI-Q bonds under ORS 286A.816 to 286A.826 in an amount that produces $20,838,690 of net
proceeds for the purpose specified in subsection (2) of this section, plus an amount estimated
by the State Treasurer to pay bond-related costs.
(2) Net proceeds of bonds issued under this section must be transferred to the depart-
ment for the purposes of acquiring, constructing, remodeling, repairing, equipping or fur-
nishing real or personal property to support the use of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition
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Center as a regional emergency and evacuee center.
SECTION 6.
In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $2,500,000 for distribution to the Union
County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union
County Fairgrounds.
SECTION 7. 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.
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