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HB3077 • 2025

Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.

Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.

Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Levy E, Representative Tran,
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.

Digest: The Act lets some local government workers be volunteers to help fight wildfires.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act lets some local government workers be volunteers to help fight wildfires.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
  • Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.
  • Relating to: Relating to fire.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-03-04 House

    Public Hearing held.

  3. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans.

  4. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act lets some local government workers be volunteers to help fight wildfires. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emergency situations.
Relating to: Relating to fire.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3077
Sponsored by Representative LEVY E (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 lets some local government workers be volunteers to help fight wildfires.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Allows local government employees to volunteer to support wildland fire suppression in emer-
gency situations.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fire.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
An employee of a local government may volunteer with a city fire depart-
ment or rural fire protection district for up to 30 days in a year in order to support wildland
fire suppression in emergency situations.
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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