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HB3432 • 2025

Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.

Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Gomberg,, Elmer,, Senator Smith DB,, Representative Scharf,, Senator Meek
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.

Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.

Digest: The Act lets wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act lets wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
  • Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.
  • Relating to: Relating to the redemption of beverage containers at wineries.

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. 2025-01-30 House

    Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.

  3. 2025-01-28 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act lets wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.
Relating to: Relating to the redemption of beverage containers at wineries.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3432
Sponsored by Representatives GOMBERG, ELMER, Senator SMITH DB, Representative SCHARF, Senator MEEK
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 wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery. (Flesch
Readability Score: 67.5).
Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold
at the winery.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the redemption of beverage containers at wineries; amending ORS 459A.715.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 459A.715 is amended to read:
459A.715. (1) A dealer may refuse to accept from any person, and a distributor or importer may
refuse to accept from a dealer, any empty beverage container that does not state thereon a refund
value as established by ORS 459A.705.
(2) A dealer may refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of:
(a) Empty beverage containers if the place of business of the dealer and the kind of empty
beverage containers are included in an order of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission ap-
proving a full-service redemption center under ORS 459A.735.
(b) Any beverage container visibly containing or contaminated by a substance other than water,
residue of the original contents or ordinary dust.
(c)(A) More than 144 individual beverage containers returned by any one person during one day,
if the dealer occupies a space of 5,000 or more square feet in a single area.
(B) More than 50 individual beverage containers returned by any one person during one day, if
the dealer occupies a space of less than 5,000 square feet in a single area.
(d) Any beverage container that is damaged to the extent that the brand appearing on the con-
tainer cannot be identified.
(3) The commission shall develop and provide to dealers notices that describe the reasons a
dealer may refuse to accept and to pay the refund value for empty beverage containers under sub-
section (2) of this section. The notices may contain additional information as determined by the
commission.
(4) A dealer must post in each area where beverage containers are received a notice provided
to the dealer under subsection (3) of this section.
(5) A dealer that holds a winery license under ORS 471.223 may, at the premises of the
winery, refuse to accept and to pay the refund value for any empty beverage container that
is of a kind, size and brand that the dealer does not sell at the winery.
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 3642