SB299 • 2025

Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington.

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

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Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington.

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to come up with ideas to reduce traffic on I-5 and I-205 and find a way to pay for the ideas and not use tolls.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to come up with ideas to reduce traffic on I-5 and I-205 and find a way to pay for the ideas and not use tolls.
(Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington.
Directs the department to also develop a financing plan to implement the mitigation measures without imposing tolls.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Transportation, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to come up with ideas to reduce traffic on I-5 and I-205 and find a way to pay for the ideas and not use tolls. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington. Directs the department to also develop a financing plan to implement the mitigation measures without imposing tolls.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to highways; 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 299
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 tells ODOT to come up with ideas to reduce traffic on I-5 and I-205 and find a
way to pay for the ideas and not use tolls. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Directs the Department of Transportation to create a corridor plan to reduce traffic on Inter-
state 5 and Interstate 205 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington. Directs the department to
also develop a financing plan to implement the mitigation measures without imposing tolls.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to highways; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall develop a corridor plan for
Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 between the City of Portland and Vancouver, Washington.
The primary goal of this plan is to develop proposed mitigation measures to substantially
reduce traffic congestion within the corridor. In developing the plan, the department shall
evaluate existing transportation conditions along the corridor and propose appropriate miti-
gation measures to address factors including, but not limited to, traffic congestion, safety,
environmental concerns and multimodal transportation needs.
(2) The plan must identify and prioritize potential improvements to enhance the per-
formance of all modes of transportation along the corridor.
(3) In addition, the department shall develop a financing plan to finance the recommended
mitigation measures without imposing tolls.
(4) The department shall submit the report on the corridor plan and financing plan re-
quired by subsections (1) and (3) of this section, and may include recommendations for leg-
islation, to the Joint Committee on Transportation in the manner provided under ORS
192.245 no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. 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.
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