SB350 • 2025

Finds that barred owls are known to prey on spotted owls.

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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Finds that barred owls are known to prey on spotted owls.

Digest: The Act finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls.
The Act tells an agency to take actions to reduce the numbers of barred owls.
The Act gives money for one of the actions.
(Flesch Readability Score: 90.8).

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

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

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls. The Act tells an agency to take actions to reduce the numbers of barred owls. The Act gives money for one of the actions. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.8).
Finds that barred owls are known to prey on spotted owls. Instructs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to issue an order authorizing the taking of barred owls and to establish a program rewarding the taking of barred owls.
Appropriates moneys to the commission to fund the program rewarding the taking of barred owls.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to decreasing the barred owl population to conserve the spotted owl population; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 350
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 finds that barred owls prey on spotted owls. The Act tells an agency to take
actions to reduce the numbers of barred owls. The Act gives money for one of the actions. (Flesch
Readability Score: 90.8).
Finds that barred owls are known to prey on spotted owls. Instructs the State Fish and Wildlife
Commission to issue an order authorizing the taking of barred owls and to establish a program re-
warding the taking of barred owls.
Appropriates moneys to the commission to fund the program rewarding the taking of barred
owls.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to decreasing the barred owl population to conserve the spotted owl population; and de-
claring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 496.
SECTION 2. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that barred owls are known to prey on
spotted owls.
(2) The State Fish and Wildlife Commission shall:
(a) Issue an order authorizing the taking of barred owls; and
(b) Establish a program that awards $5 for each taking of a barred owl.
SECTION 3.
There is appropriated to the State Fish and Wildlife Commission, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $100,000 for the
purpose specified in section 2 (2)(b) of this 2025 Act. This appropriation is available contin-
uously until expended for the purpose specified in section 2 (2)(b) of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. 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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