HB3284 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Evans
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 the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facilities.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facilities.
The Act ends the program later.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.7).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-24 House
Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-21 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facilities. The Act ends the program later. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.
Sunsets the program on January 2, 2031.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to aquaculture products; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3284
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 an agency to create a program for buying trophy trout from certain facil-
ities. The Act ends the program later. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a program to purchase trophy
trout from private aquaculture facilities.
Sunsets the program on January 2, 2031.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to aquaculture products; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “trophy trout” means a trout that is at least 14
inches long or that weighs approximately one pound or more.
(2) The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall establish a program to purchase
trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.
(3) In implementing the program, the department shall:
(a) Annually purchase 500,000 pounds of trophy trout produced by private aquaculture
facilities.
(b) Enter into purchase contracts with in-state private aquaculture facilities for a dura-
tion of at least one year but not more than five years, as decided by the private aquaculture
facilities.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(b) of this section, the department may purchase tro-
phy trout from out-of-state private aquaculture facilities if in-state private aquaculture fa-
cilities are unable to provide sufficient trophy trout and the department provides in-state
private aquaculture facilities with reasonable notice of the department’s intent to purchase
trophy trout from out-of-state private aquaculture facilities.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2031.
SECTION 3. 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.
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 3031