Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.

Digest: This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
• Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.
• Relating to: Relating to fish hatcheries.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indicator stock.
Relating to: Relating to fish hatcheries.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2888
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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: This Act says that the ODF&W must get approval from the legislature before closing a
hatchery that raises certain kinds of fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to seek prior legislative approval before
taking any action to close a fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of an exploitation rate indi-
cator stock.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fish hatcheries.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Fish and Wildlife may not take any action to close
a public or private fish hatchery engaged in the propagation of any species used as an ex-
ploitation rate indicator stock pursuant to the Pacific Salmon Treaty, and any amendments
thereto, or any other treaty entered into between the Unites States and Canada, unless the
department receives prior approval to do so by an Act of the Legislative Assembly.
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 1794