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HB3318 • 2025

Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.

Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.

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.

Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.

Digest: This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that break some laws.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that break some laws.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
  • Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.
  • Relating to: Relating to civil penalties for violation of environmental laws.

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. 2025-01-24 House

    Referred to Judiciary.

  3. 2025-01-21 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that break some laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.
Relating to: Relating to civil penalties for violation of environmental laws.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3318
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: This Act allows the EQC to adopt enhanced civil penalties for cargo tank vehicles that
break some laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule a schedule of enhanced civil
penalties for violations of certain environmental laws involving cargo tank motor vehicles.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to civil penalties for violation of environmental laws.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 468.
SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section, “cargo tank motor vehicle” means a motor ve-
hicle with one or more cargo tanks permanently attached to or forming an integral part of
the motor vehicle.
(2) The Environmental Quality Commission may, to the extent authorized by federal law,
adopt by rule a schedule establishing enhanced civil penalty amounts that may be assessed,
in addition to the amount prescribed by the schedule adopted under ORS 468.130, for a vio-
lation described in ORS 468.140 that involves a cargo tank motor vehicle.
(3) In imposing a penalty pursuant to a schedule authorized by this section, the com-
mission shall consider the construction of the cargo tank motor vehicle and reduce the
amount of the penalty if the construction of the cargo tank motor vehicle exceeds specifi-
cations for the construction of cargo tank motor vehicles required under federal law.
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 2054