OR SB74 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Unknown
Status: Passed on June 6 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-06-06 - Effective date, January 1, 2026.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Sponsorship: Unknown
Status: Passed on June 6 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-06-06 - Effective date, January 1, 2026.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
This Act makes changes to how DSL can find the state's interest in waterways that are navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). [Digest: This Act tells the DSL to study how to determine that a waterway is navigable. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).] [Requires the Department of State Lands to study determinations of navigability on Oregon waterways. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Authorizes the Department of State Lands to find in a navigability determination draft report that the state's interest in the waterway extends to the current submerged and submersible lands within the waterway. Authorizes the department to negotiate with property owners affected by the finding and convey mineral and geothermal resource rights in a negotiated exchange of deeds. Requires the department to determine the state's interest in portions of the waterway according to principles of accretion and avulsion if the department is unable to reach an agreement with affected property owners.
Title
Relating to determinations of navigability on Oregon waterways.
Sponsors
| No sponsor information available at this time. |
Roll Calls
2025-05-19 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2025-05-12 - House - House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-04-22 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 23 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-08 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-12 - House - House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-04-22 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 23 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-08 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-06 | Senate | Effective date, January 1, 2026. |
| 2025-06-06 | Senate | Chapter 164, 2025 Laws. |
| 2025-05-27 | Senate | Governor signed. |
| 2025-05-21 | House | Speaker signed. |
| 2025-05-20 | Senate | President signed. |
| 2025-05-19 | House | Third reading. Carried by Boice. Passed. Ayes, 38; Nays, 15--Boshart Davis, Breese-Iverson, Cate, Diehl, Drazan, Edwards, Harbick, Helfrich, Lewis, Osborne, Reschke, Scharf, Skarlatos, Wright, Yunker; Excused, 5--Evans, Levy E, McIntire, Nguyen H, Wallan; Excused for Business of the House, 1--Elmer. |
| 2025-05-15 | House | Second reading. |
| 2025-05-14 | House | Recommendation: Do pass. |
| 2025-05-12 | House | Work Session held. |
| 2025-04-28 | House | Public Hearing held. |
| 2025-04-23 | House | Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water. |
| 2025-04-22 | House | First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. |
| 2025-04-22 | Senate | Third reading. Carried by Prozanski. Passed. Ayes, 23; Nays, 6--Bonham, Hayden, Linthicum, Robinson, Smith DB, Thatcher. |
| 2025-04-21 | Senate | Carried over to 04-22 by unanimous consent. |
| 2025-04-17 | Senate | Second reading. |
| 2025-04-16 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) |
| 2025-04-08 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2025-04-01 | Senate | Public Hearing held. |
| 2025-03-13 | Senate | Public Hearing held. |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire. |
| 2025-01-13 | Senate | Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
