Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact information form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in the individual's record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact information form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in the individual's record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.

Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT to help those who want to make it easier for a police officer to contact someone if they are hurt.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT to help those who want to make it easier for a police officer to contact someone if they are hurt.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5).
• Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact information form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in the individual's record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
• Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT to help those who want to make it easier for a police officer to contact someone if they are hurt. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5).
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact information form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in the individual's record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to maintaining emergency contact information in the records of the Department of Transportation; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3717
Sponsored by Representative ANDERSEN; Senator WOODS
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 gives money to ODOT to help those who want to make it easier for a police
officer to contact someone if they are hurt. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5).
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Transportation to create an emergency contact in-
formation form and make the form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact
information for inclusion in the individual’s record for police officers to use, during or after emer-
gency situations, to contact those listed.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to maintaining emergency contact information in the records of the Department of Trans-
portation; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Department of Transportation, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $_______, which may be expended for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of ORS 802.275.
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
July 1, 2025.
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 3567