SB222 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers.

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

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

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers.

Digest: The Act tells ODFW to monitor smallmouth bass in certain rivers and to support programs to get rid of smallmouth bass in certain rivers.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODFW to monitor smallmouth bass in certain rivers and to support programs to get rid of smallmouth bass in certain rivers.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). [Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program to protect salmon.
(Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).] [Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate a program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.] Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers.
Appropriates moneys to the department to carry out the purposes of the Act.

Limits and Unknowns

This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-24 Senate
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.)
2025-03-24 Senate
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-03-19 Senate
Work Session held.
2025-02-19 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Energy and Environment, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

<b>Digest: The Act tells ODFW to monitor smallmouth bass in certain rivers and to support programs to get rid of smallmouth bass in certain rivers. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).</b>
[<i>Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program to protect salmon. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).</i>]
[<i>Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate a program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.</i>]
<b>Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers. Appropriates moneys to the department to carry out the purposes of the Act.
<b>Declares an emergency, effective on passage.</b>
Relating to: Relating to the protection of salmon; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 222
Ordered by the Senate March 24
Including Senate Amendments dated March 24
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act tells ODFW to monitor smallmouth bass in certain rivers and to support
programs to get rid of smallmouth bass in certain rivers. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).
[Digest: The Act tells an agency to create a program to protect salmon. (Flesch Readability Score:
74.8).]
[Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate a program in southwest Oregon to
control populations of species that prey on salmon. ]
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of
smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass
in certain rivers. Appropriates moneys to the department to carry out the purposes of the
Act.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the protection of salmon; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that smallmouth bass prey
on juvenile salmon.
(2) The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall:
(a) Establish a program to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass to rivers other
than the Columbia River that drain into the Pacific Ocean.
(b) Support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass that are within rivers other than the
Columbia River that drain into the Pacific Ocean.
SECTION 2.
There is appropriated to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $1,000,000, for the
purpose of carrying 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
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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