SB513 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB,, Representative Boice
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish.

Digest: The Act tells ODFW to study protocols for stocking fish.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODFW to study protocols for stocking fish.
(Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.

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 tells ODFW to study protocols for stocking fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and other fish. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to fish.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 513
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB, Representative BOICE (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 tells ODFW to study protocols for stocking fish. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study stocking protocols for salmon and
other fish. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fish.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall study stocking protocols for
salmon and other fish, including dissolved oxygen in water, water temperature, water flows
and backup secondary release locations. The department shall submit a report in the manner
provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment 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.
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