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OR SB793

Bill

Status

Passed

8/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Unknown

Origin

Senate

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Maintains the $750 one-time application fee for easements to construct water, gas, electric, or communication service lines on state land, but removes the separate $5,000 fee structure for territorial sea land from statute

  • Requires the Director of the Department of State Lands to establish by rule application fees, renewal fees, and compensation rates for easements on state land within the territorial sea by January 1, 2027

  • Fees for territorial sea easements must be reasonably calculated to offset the department's costs of granting and renewing those easements

  • Preserves the existing $5,000 application fee for territorial sea easements as an interim measure until the new rules take effect

  • Requires the department to submit a progress report to legislative committees on environment, land use, and natural resources by February 15, 2026

Legislative Description

Relating to easements on state land; and declaring an emergency.

Last Action

Effective date, July 31, 2025.

8/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means6/17/2025
Natural Resources6/3/2025
Ways and Means2/28/2025
Natural Resources and Wildfire1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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