Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures.

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 Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures.

Digest: The Act would require a study of how to allow local taxing districts to spend transient lodging tax moneys for public safety programs.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act would require a study of how to allow local taxing districts to spend transient lodging tax moneys for public safety programs.
• The Act would require a report to be turned in next year.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2).
• Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would require a study of how to allow local taxing districts to spend transient lodging tax moneys for public safety programs. The Act would require a report to be turned in next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2).
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures. Directs the officer to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to transient lodging taxes.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 457
Sponsored by Senator WEBER (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 would require a study of how to allow local taxing districts to spend transient
lodging tax moneys for public safety programs. The Act would require a report to be turned in next
year. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.2).
Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the inclusion of public safety programs as
tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expenditures. Directs the officer to submit
a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue no later than
September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to transient lodging taxes.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Legislative Revenue Officer shall conduct a study of the inclusion of
public safety programs as tourism promotion for purposes of transient lodging tax expen-
ditures. The officer shall submit a report of findings to the interim committees of the Leg-
islative Assembly related to revenue in the manner provided under ORS 192.245 no later than
September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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 1863