SB357 • 2025

Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.

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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Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.

Digest: The Act allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment.
(Flesch Readability Score: 69.9).
Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.
Relating to: Relating to ports.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-25 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Transportation.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9).
Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from port waters.
Relating to: Relating to ports.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 357
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 allows ports to charge for the costs of removing sediment. (Flesch Readability
Score: 69.9).
Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for a portion of the costs of removing sediment from
port waters.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to ports.
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 777.
SECTION 2. (1) A port may assess one or more public bodies for a portion of the costs
of removing sediment from port waters.
(2) A port may assess a public body under this section only if the public body owns or
controls a culvert, creek or other watercourse that discharged into port waters during the
calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the assessment is made.
(3) A port may assess public bodies under this section no more than once per calendar
year. The assessment to a public body may not exceed an amount equal to a fraction, the
numerator of which is the actual cost incurred by the port for removing sediment in the
prior calendar year and the denominator of which is one plus the number of public bodies
being assessed.
(4) A public body assessed under this section shall promptly remit to the port the amount
assessed.
(5) As used in this section:
(a) “Port waters” means waters owned or controlled by the port making an assessment
under this section.
(b) “Public body” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.109.
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 1447