HB2973 • 2025

Requires the Department of State Lands to study options for funding for marine cleanup.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Gomberg,, Senator Anderson
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of State Lands to study options for funding for marine cleanup.

Digest: The Act would direct the Department of State Lands to study how to fund the cleanup of the public waterways in this state.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act would direct the Department of State Lands to study how to fund the cleanup of the public waterways in this state.
The Act would require a report of the study to be submitted next year.
(Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
Requires the Department of State Lands to study options for funding for marine cleanup.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would direct the Department of State Lands to study how to fund the cleanup of the public waterways in this state. The Act would require a report of the study to be submitted next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
Requires the Department of State Lands to study options for funding for marine cleanup. Directs the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the use of the state's public waterways no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to funding for marine cleanup.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2973
Sponsored by Representative GOMBERG, Senator ANDERSON (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 would direct the Department of State Lands to study how to fund the cleanup
of the public waterways in this state. The Act would require a report of the study to be submitted
next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
Requires the Department of State Lands to study options for funding for marine cleanup. Directs
the department to submit a report of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assem-
bly related to the use of the state’s public waterways no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to funding for marine cleanup.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of State Lands shall conduct a study of funding options for
marine cleanup, including removal of abandoned and derelict vessels. The department shall
submit a report of its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related
to the use of the state’s public waterways in the manner provided under ORS 192.245 no later
than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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