l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 885

Directs the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to establish a division or subsidiary for the purpose of issuing policies of fire insurance and property insurance against the peril of wildfire.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: Tells a state agency to make fire insurance and property insurance available to people in this state to protect against wild fires. Sets up a fund for this purpose. Says that the agency must focus on insurance in areas where insurers do not do enough to protect people. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Directs the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to establish a division or subsidiary for the purpose of issuing policies of fire insurance and property insurance against the peril of wildfire. Provides that the corporation shall preferentially issue policies of insurance in locations and insurance markets in this state in which other insurers do not provide fire insurance or property insurance against the peril of wildfire or in which existing policies are inadequate. Establishes the Wildfire Risk Insurance Fund within the State Treasury for the use of the corporation in providing insurance under the Act. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

Its course

January 21 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 2 days

In the SenateJan 21 to Jun 27 · stopped157 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 21 to Jan 210 days

Natural Resources and WildfireJan 21 to Jun 27 · stopped157 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 Jan 21 – Jun 27

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Natural Resources and Wildfire
  3. Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published