OR SB511 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - Public Hearing held.
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - Public Hearing held.
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
This Act tells the DSL to make a pilot program for owners of land to restore salmon habitat. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.0). Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins. Establishes the Salmon Credit Trust Fund. Directs the Department of State Lands and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to consult with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to develop or identify an existing programmatic general permit to authorize restoration activities under the pilot program. Becomes operative on the date that a programmatic general permit is established. Provides that the Department of State Lands may not approve a salmon credit project on or after January 2 of the sixth year following the establishment of a programmatic general permit. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Title
Relating to the creation of credits for the restoration of salmon habitat; prescribing an effective date.
Sponsors
| Sen. David Smith [R] | Rep. Court Boice [R] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Senate | Public Hearing held. |
| 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. |
