Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use up to eight percent of the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.

Plain English Breakdown

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Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use up to eight percent of the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.

Digest: The Act would allow counties to use some money to pay for costs to implement a policy to reduce grasshoppers in the state.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act would allow counties to use some money to pay for costs to implement a policy to reduce grasshoppers in the state.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
• Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use<b> up to eight percent of </b>the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.
• Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would allow counties to use some money to pay for costs to implement a policy to reduce grasshoppers in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use<b> up to eight percent of </b>the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to funding grasshopper suppression efforts; and declaring an emergency.
Current location: Chapter Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Enrolled
House Bill 3487
Sponsored by Representatives MCINTIRE, RESCHKE; Representative LEVY B
CHAPTER .................................................
AN ACT
Relating to funding grasshopper suppression efforts; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Counties that receive moneys appropriated under section 408, chapter 114,
Oregon Laws 2024, may use up to eight percent of the moneys to pay expenses incurred in
administering grasshopper suppression efforts.
SECTION 2. 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.
Passed by House March 31, 2025
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Timothy G. Sekerak, Chief Clerk of House
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Julie Fahey, Speaker of House
Passed by Senate May 1, 2025
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Rob Wagner, President of Senate
Received by Governor:
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Approved:
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Tina Kotek, Governor
Filed in Office of Secretary of State:
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Tobias Read, Secretary of State
Enrolled House Bill 3487 (HB 3487-A) Page 1