SB1058 • 2025

Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies.

Digest: The Act tells an agency to update a plan about state forests to increase timber harvest.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells an agency to update a plan about state forests to increase timber harvest.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies.
Provides that department actions related to the update and submission are not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-18 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
2025-02-18 Senate
Referred to Energy and Environment.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells an agency to update a plan about state forests to increase timber harvest. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies. Provides that department actions related to the update and submission are not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act.
Relating to: Relating to a habitat conservation plan.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1058
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
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 tells an agency to update a plan about state forests to increase timber harvest.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase
timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation
plan to federal agencies. Provides that department actions related to the update and submission are
not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a habitat conservation plan.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the State Forestry De-
partment shall, as soon as practicable:
(a) Update the draft Western Oregon State Forests Habitat Conservation Plan (February
2022) to adopt a proposed approach that is consistent with Alternative 5: Increased Timber
Harvest in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Western Oregon State Forests
Habitat Conservation Plan (March 2022 at ES.5.5) prepared by the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration.
(b) Submit the updated habitat conservation plan described in paragraph (a) of this sub-
section to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries
Service.
(2) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, department actions to implement the
requirements of subsection (1) of this section are not subject to the provisions of ORS
chapter 183.
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 2132