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SB297 • 2025

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Senator Meek
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.

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.

Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT for right of way health and safety.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT for right of way health and safety.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 89.0).
  • Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.
  • Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Transportation, then Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act gives money to ODOT for right of way health and safety. (Flesch Readability Score: 89.0).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to the Department of Transportation; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 297
Sponsored by Senator MEEK (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 gives money to ODOT for right of way health and safety. (Flesch Readability
Score: 89.0).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of
way health and safety.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Department of Transportation; and prescribing an effective date.
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 $_______ for right of way health and safety.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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 2481