Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3683: Relating to interstate bridges.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: The Act says that a commission to make a new bridge over the Columbia River is a public body for the OTCA. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Provides that a commission formed by local governments to replace a bridge crossing the Columbia River is a public body for purposes of the Oregon Tort Claims Act.
What the bill says
A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to interstate bridges; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 30.260.
From the introduced text, February 24, 2025:
A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to interstate bridges; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 30.260. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. ORS 30.260 is amended to read: 30.260. As used in ORS 30.260 to 30.300, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. (2) "Director" means the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. (3) "Governing body" means the group or officer in which the controlling authority of any public body is vested. (4) "Public body" (b) Any nonprofit corporation that is organized and existing under ORS chapter 65 and that has only political subdivisions or municipal, quasi-municipal or public corporations in this state as members; (c) A child-caring agency, as defined in ORS 418.205, that meets the criteria specified in ORS 278.322 (1)(a) and that receives more than 50 percent of its funding from the state for the purpose of providing residential treatment to children who have been placed in the care and custody of the state or that provides residential treatment to children more than half of whom have been placed in the care and custody of the state; [or] (d) A private, nonprofit organization that provides public transportation services if more than 50 percent of the organization's funding for the purpose of …
Sponsors
- Jeff Helfrich (R, 52) · primary sponsor
- Daniel Bonham (R, 26) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : In committee upon adjournment.
- : Referred to Judiciary.
- : First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Subjects: Judiciary
Common questions
- What is HB3683?
- HB3683 is a bill in the Oregon Legislature (2025 Legislative Measures): Relating to interstate bridges.
- What does HB3683 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to interstate bridges; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 30.260.
- What is the status of HB3683?
- Failed as of June 27, 2025. Latest action: In committee upon adjournment. (June 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB3683?
- Jeff Helfrich (R, 52), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB3683?
- On the Oregon Legislature website: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/3683
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