l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 3

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to decrease either the weight-mile tax or vehicle fuel taxes if the highway cost allocation study indicates that a vehicle class is paying more than its fair share for the use of the highways in the state and the Legislative Assembly does not enact a measure within 120 days of the Joint Committee on Transportation receiving a report on the study to correct the imbalance.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Transportation Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act tells DAS to lower some car and truck taxes. This must happen if the HCAS report says that cars or trucks are paying more than their fair share for the use of the roads and the legislature does not pass a bill to fix the imbalance within 120 days of getting the report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.4). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to decrease either the weight-mile tax or vehicle fuel taxes if the highway cost allocation study indicates that a vehicle class is paying more than its fair share for the use of the highways in the state and the Legislative Assembly does not enact a measure within 120 days of the Joint Committee on Transportation receiving a report on the study to correct the imbalance. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

4 co-sponsors

Chris Gorsek, Mike McLane, Mark Meek, Suzanne Weber

Its course

March 11 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action3 actions on 3 days

In the SenateMar 11 to Jun 27 · stopped108 days

Waiting for a committeeMar 11 to Mar 121 day

TransportationMar 12 to Jun 27 · stopped107 days

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Mar 11 – Jun 27

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Transportation
  3. Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published