HB3965 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant of $2 million to the City of Klamath Falls to bring commercial air service to a regional airport.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Reschke,, McIntire
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant of $2 million to the City of Klamath Falls to bring commercial air service to a regional airport.

Digest: The Act says DAS must give a city a grant of $2 million so the city can bring commercial air service to the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act says DAS must give a city a grant of $2 million so the city can bring commercial air service to the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport.
But, if the city does not find someone to provide the service before June 30, 2027, the city must return the money to DAS.
The Act becomes law in July.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.8).

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-04-22 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans.
2025-04-16 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says DAS must give a city a grant of $2 million so the city can bring commercial air service to the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport. But, if the city does not find someone to provide the service before June 30, 2027, the city must return the money to DAS. The Act becomes law in July. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8).
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant of $2 million to the City of Klamath Falls to bring commercial air service to a regional airport. Directs the department to establish a grant agreement requiring the city to return the grant amount if the city is unable to secure commercial air service before June 30, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3965
Sponsored by Representatives RESCHKE, MCINTIRE
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 DAS must give a city a grant of $2 million so the city can bring commer-
cial air service to the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport. But, if the city does not find someone
to provide the service before June 30, 2027, the city must return the money to DAS. The Act be-
comes law in July. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8).
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award a grant of $2 million to the
City of Klamath Falls to bring commercial air service to a regional airport. Directs the department
to establish a grant agreement requiring the city to return the grant amount if the city is unable
to secure commercial air service before June 30, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Oregon Department of Ad-
ministrative Services shall award a grant of $2,000,000 to the City of Klamath Falls for the
purpose of securing an agreement with a commercial airline to provide air service to the
Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport.
(2) Before the city may receive the grant under subsection (1) of this section, the city
shall enter into a grant agreement with the department.
(3) The grant agreement must include terms obligating the city to repay the grant, and
specifying the date by which the funds must be returned, if the department finds that the
city was unable to secure an agreement for commercial air service, as described in sub-
section (1) of this section, before June 30, 2027.
(4) If the department receives funds under subsection (3) of this section, the department
shall deposit the funds into the General Fund.
SECTION 2. 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 $2,000,000, which may be expended for car-
rying out the provisions of section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. 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.
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