SB351 • 2025

Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.

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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Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.

Digest: The Act gives money for a program for taking certain fish.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act gives money for a program for taking certain fish.
(Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

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 gives money for a program for taking certain fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to the capture of pikeminnow; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 351
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 gives money for a program for taking certain fish. (Flesch Readability Score:
80.3).
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purpose of funding
programs that award $5 for each take of pikeminnow, if the take complies with wildlife laws.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the capture of pikeminnow; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
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 $100,000 for the
purpose of funding programs that award $5 for each take of a pikeminnow, if the take com-
plies with the wildlife laws. This appropriation is available continuously until expended for
the purpose specified in this section.
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.
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