HB3841 • 2025

Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Andersen,, Senator Patterson
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.

Digest: The Act says that Cherriots and others should work together to assess if it is possible to have a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act says that Cherriots and others should work together to assess if it is possible to have a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.
Cherriots must give a report about what the group finds out.
(Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-04 House
Referred to Transportation with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-02-27 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that Cherriots and others should work together to assess if it is possible to have a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Cherriots must give a report about what the group finds out. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Directs Cherriots to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation not later than January 1, 2027.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Cherriots for the study.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to a streetcar system in the City of Salem; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3841
Sponsored by Representative ANDERSEN, Senator PATTERSON
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 says that Cherriots and others should work together to assess if it is possible
to have a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Cherriots must give a report about what the
group finds out. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).
Requires Cherriots to collaborate with the Department of Transportation, the Department of
Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study the
feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem. Directs Cherriots to submit
findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation not later
than January 1, 2027.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Ser-
vices for distribution to Cherriots for the study.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a streetcar system in the City of Salem; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Cherriots, the Salem Area Mass Transit District, shall collaborate with
the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Quality, community
members in the City of Salem and economists and business leaders in the City of Salem to
study the feasibility of establishing a rail streetcar system in the City of Salem.
(2) Cherriots shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may in-
clude recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assem-
bly related to transportation no later than January 1, 2027.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $250,000, which may be distributed to
Cherriots for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. 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.
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