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SB371 • 2025

Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands.

Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands.

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.

Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands.

Digest: This Act tells the Department of State Lands to ask the U.S.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act tells the Department of State Lands to ask the U.S.
  • government to transfer some U.S.
  • public lands to the state.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8).

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act tells the Department of State Lands to ask the U.S. government to transfer some U.S. public lands to the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8).
Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer of certain public lands. Requires the department to manage the transferred lands as trustee for the benefit of counties where the lands are sited.
Relating to: Relating to transfer of federal public lands.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 371
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: This Act tells the Department of State Lands to ask the U.S. government to transfer
some U.S. public lands to the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.8).
Requires the Department of State Lands to petition the United States Congress for the transfer
of certain public lands. Requires the department to manage the transferred lands as trustee for the
benefit of counties where the lands are sited.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to transfer of federal public lands.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) On or before January 1, 2027, the Department of State Lands shall deliver
a petition to the United States Congress requesting the transfer of federal public lands under
the management of the Bureau of Land Management or United States Forest Service to this
state for land that is within any county that:
(a) Has more than 50 percent of its land area owned or managed by the federal govern-
ment; and
(b) By ordinance, has requested that the department include the county within the plan
for the lands under subsection (2) of this section.
(2) For any lands described under subsection (1) of this section that are transferred to
this state in response to the petition under this section, the department shall establish a
program by which the department:
(a) Holds the lands in perpetual trust that is managed by the department.
(b) Annually distributes the profits and interests from the lands to the counties in which
the lands are sited to be used only for education, health or economic development of the
residents of the county.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028.
SECTION 3. The repeal of section 1 of this 2025 Act by section 2 of this 2025 Act does
not repeal any program or trust established by the Department of State Lands under section
1 (2) of this 2025 Act.
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 2388