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HB3084 • 2025

Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.

Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Levy E,, Senator Broadman,, Representative Kropf,, Breese-Iverson,, Gomberg, Representative Grayber,, Reschke,
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.

Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.

Digest: The Act tells state agencies to help with the CORE3 center in various ways.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells state agencies to help with the CORE3 center in various ways.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
  • Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.
  • Directs state agencies to incorporate the CORE3 center in agency emergency planning.

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. 2025-03-24 House

    Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  3. 2025-03-24 House

    Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  4. 2025-03-18 House

    Work Session held.

  5. 2025-02-20 House

    Public Hearing held.

  6. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  7. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells state agencies to help with the CORE3 center in various ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the CORE3 center.
Directs state agencies to incorporate the CORE3 center in agency emergency planning.
Directs specified state agencies to evaluate whether financial participation in the CORE3 center is advisable.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue a grant for the CORE3 center.
Relating to: Relating to emergency management.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3084
Sponsored by Representative LEVY E, Senator BROADMAN, Representative KROPF (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 tells state agencies to help with the CORE3 center in various ways. (Flesch
Readability Score: 71.7).
Directs specified state agencies to collaborate with local and regional officials to develop the
CORE3 center.
Directs state agencies to incorporate the CORE3 center in agency emergency planning.
Directs specified state agencies to evaluate whether financial participation in the CORE3 center
is advisable.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue a grant for the CORE3
center.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to emergency management.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “CORE3 center” means the multiagency coordi-
nation center for emergency operations under development in Deschutes County.
(2) The following state agencies shall work collaboratively with local and regional officials
in coordinating and planning the development of the CORE3 center:
(a) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management;
(b) The Department of the State Fire Marshal;
(c) The State Forestry Department;
(d) The Oregon Military Department;
(e) The Department of State Police;
(f) The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training;
(g) The Department of Corrections;
(h) The Department of Human Services;
(i) The Department of Transportation; and
(j) The Department of Environmental Quality.
(3) State agencies shall incorporate the CORE3 center as an element of the agencies’
plans related to emergencies and disasters.
(4) Each state agency specified in subsection (2) of this section shall evaluate whether
financial participation by the agency in the construction or operation of the CORE3 center
is in the long-term interest of Oregon residents. The agencies shall report their conclusions
to the standing or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency
management as soon as practicable.
(5) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall issue a grant to the Central
Oregon Intergovernmental Council to be used for planning, developing or constructing the
CORE3 center.
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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SECTION 2.
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 $15,750,000 to carry out the provisions of
section 1 (5) of this 2025 Act.
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