SB339 • 2025

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.

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.

Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.

Digest: The Act gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force.
(Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.

Limits and Unknowns

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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.
2025-02-17 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

Digest: The Act gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death. The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to Sudden Oak Death; 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 339
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 gives money to an agency for addressing the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
The Act tells the agency to spend part of the money for a task force. (Flesch Readability Score:
78.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes re-
lated to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Sudden Oak Death; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appro-
priated to the State Forestry Department, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $3,100,000, which shall be placed into the State Forestry De-
partment Account and expended for carrying out an integrated pest management program
under ORS 527.310 to 527.370 to combat the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
(2) The department shall expend $50,000 of the moneys appropriated under this section
as a block grant to assist iSector with establishing and operating a task force to encourage
and coordinate county integrated pest management programs to combat Sudden Oak Death.
SECTION 2. 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.
LC 1481