Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Bobby Levy
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires a person who is developing or repowering a wind energy facility to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration and, if applicable, the Federal Communications Commission, for approval for the installation and use of light-mitigating technology systems and, if approved, install the systems within 24 months or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances.
Out of committee9
Adds mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
Establishes theCARE Program within the Youth Development Division to support families and reduce barriers that contribute to absence from school and a lack of basic needs.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of a predator damage control district as a funding mechanism to pay the actual costs to the county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Eastern Oregon University to provide university degrees to adults in custody at some correctional facilities in eastern Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for allocation to Oregon State University to fund the agricultural experiment station and branch stations, the Oregon State University Extension Service and the Forest Research Laboratory.
Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demonstration project in Umatilla County.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Union County Fair Association for the purpose of water and sewer improvements to the Union County Fairgrounds.
Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to contract with a third party to study and determine a greenhouse gas reporting emissions factor for electricity purchased from unspecified sources.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildlife damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
In committee37
Authorizes the involuntary civil commitment of a person with a substance use disorder who meets the criteria for involuntary civil commitment of a person with a mental disorder.
Lowers the disability threshold for property tax exemption for the homestead or personal property of veterans to 10 percent.
Provides for an additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish an elk damage prevention and compensation pilot program.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on certain multipliers of fair market value.
Provides that a fixed percentage of certain forecasted video lottery revenues be transferred to counties for economic development.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine.
Directs district school boards to ensure that the curriculum of each course of study offered by a school district is made available to the public on the school district's website.
Provides that a person who receives a finding under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal the finding to a county advisory committee.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
Establishes the Wallowa Rural and Recreational Economic Development Board to develop and implement strategies for investment in workforce development, workforce housing and economic development in the Wallowa Rural and Recreational Economic Development Region, including a grant and loan program.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to study the economic development of ports in Oregon.
Requires the Dean of the College of Forestry at Oregon State University to establish a lumber grading training program at the university.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify effective methods for teaching students with dyslexia.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer the Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Increases the amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Establishes an income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Requires school districts to develop, review or revise an individualized suicide prevention protection plan for each student who demonstrates suicidal behavior.
Directs school districts to give parents, guardians and district residents equitable access to instructional materials for the purpose of examining the materials.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to distribute moneys for county veterans' service officers to counties that have a population of less than 30,000 and are or will be unable to maintain operations of county veterans' service officers due to budget decreases.
Provides that a person is automatically qualified to obtain a permit to purchase a firearm if the person holds a valid concealed handgun license.
Directs the Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on a website maintained by the department.
Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to support the operation of the AgriStress Helpline in Oregon.
Directs every agency to review the agency's administrative rules and amend the rules to simplify the rules and eliminate redundancy.
Requires the State Board of Education, in coordination with Eastern Oregon University, to establish a pilot program to provide resources and support for students to access post-secondary education opportunities.
Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education.
Prohibits regulatory agencies from enforcing rules or regulations relating to issues that were considered or addressed as part of a prior approval or permit for certain capital construction projects.
Directs the Office of Outdoor Recreation to establish a rural community and land stewardship technical assistance and planning pilot program.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for certain events.
Provides for a single limit on the cost of compliance for an electric utility that is required to comply with a renewable portfolio standard and the statutory clean energy targets.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife.
Provides that veterinary facilities do not qualify as animal rescue entities for purposes of regulating animal rescue entities.
Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Authorizes the Water Resources Department to approve applications by certain water districts within the Walla Walla basin to lease existing water rights for temporary conversion to in-stream water rights if certain conditions exist and the department makes certain determinations.
Directs the State Department of Agriculture to modify the methodology under which participating counties award grants for wolf depredation compensation.
Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
Passed the Senate1
Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in a cosmetology field of practice under the supervision of a practitioner in the same field of practice under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 36
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Provides for standing for an association or organization to seek declaratory relief in the Oregon Tax Court.
Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to adopt certain equipment standards for off-road vehicles instead of the other agencies.
Provides a credit against an employer's unemployment insurance taxes for calendar year 2025 if the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2025 is at least 2.5 percentage points less than the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2024.
Allows designation by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of certain state-owned and locally nominated lands within an urban growth boundary as home start lands to be used for affordable housing.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring a Title V operating permit for certain air curtain incinerators.
Prohibits selling or offering for sale a timeshare without a license.
Modifies school bus stop arm camera law.
Requires certain health insurers to credit any amount an enrollee pays directly to a provider toward out-of-pocket costs and deductibles in certain circumstances.
Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Makes certain changes concerning a program to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Increases boating fees and deposits moneys into the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Fund.
Prescribes the requirements for an immediate and temporary accommodations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Designates the third Tuesday of March of each year as Oregon Farmer and Rancher Day.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.
Authorizes the State Forestry Department to take certain actions related to motor vehicles and other equipment used by the department.
Authorizes counties that receive moneys from the State Department of Agriculture under a past appropriation to use up to eight percent of the moneys to pay expenses incurred in administering grasshopper suppression efforts.
Transfers moneys from the Senior Property Tax Deferral Revolving Account to the Healthy Homes Repair Fund for the purpose of supporting seniors and individuals with disabilities and to the Department of Revenue to increase public knowledge of property tax deferral programs.
Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative.
Modifies exemption from the taxable estate for the value of natural resource property to accommodate interests owned through a trust or business entity.
Designates October 9 of each year as Oregon Youth Suicide Awareness Day.
Defines "energy performance contract" and allows authorized state agencies to enter into energy performance contracts without requiring a competitive procurement if the authorized state agency follows rules that the Attorney General adopts, negotiates a performance guarantee and enters into the contract with a qualified energy service company that the State Department of Energy prequalifies and approves.
Changes the metrics for a homestead's real market value and the household income of a claimant in order to expand eligibility for the homestead property tax deferral program.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or a regional air quality control authority from requiring a person to operate a human or animal crematory incinerator at a temperature greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility.
Allows a physical therapist to perform dry needling.
Expands the justifications for a domestic water supply district to exercise the powers of a sanitary district.
Imposes a tax on the distribution of oral nicotine products.
Passed the House · 2
Modifies the safe haven law to allow a parent to anonymously leave an infant in a newborn safety device.
Makes remainder lands created by the lawful carve-out of lands by a recorded instrument into lawful units of land.
Out of committee · 43
Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including legal pathways for the disposal of nuclear waste produced from nuclear energy.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and maintain a registry for nonlicensed tutors.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement a program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Providesthat the tax collector for a camping site on a county fairgrounds that has not more than 50 camping sites with both direct electrical hookups and individual sewer hookups and that caters to tourists may withhold the state transient lodging tax collected for the camping site provided the tax moneys are used for the operation or promotion of the camping site.
Removes the requirement that the amount of net proceeds from the Oregon State Lottery allocated to the County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually and adjusts the percentage of net lottery proceeds allocated to the County Fair Account.
Establishes a beginning farmer and rancher incentive program in the State Department of Agriculture.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Requires the Department of Corrections to provide adults in custody at certain department institutions access to specific online educational programs.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to various entities for food production and distribution.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Environmental Quality to fund vessel inspections to minimize the risk of introducing aquatic invasive species into this state.
Instructs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to aquifer recharge and aquifer storage and recovery.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
Directs the Youth Development Division toconduct a comprehensive review of initiatives aimed at reducing community violence in this state.
Requires law enforcement agencies to take a DNA sample of a person arrested for certain crimes.
Allocates lottery moneys for distribution to the economic development districts in Oregon to be used to receive federal matching grants awarded by the United States Economic Development Administration.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain impacts of damages from wildfire.
Directs the State Forester to determine the available state forestland, establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and manage available state forestland.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grants to soil and water conservation districts that operate in certain counties.
Provides that an operator may require a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
Establishes the Landowners Living with Beavers Grant Program Subaccount in the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Changes the requirements for an energy resilience plan that a county develops under the Act.
Directs the Department of the State Fire Marshal to establish a grant program to facilitate the retrofitting of dwellingsto reduce vulnerability to wildfire.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Provides that priority may be given to students in specified courses of study to participate in a pilot program to enhance the hiring of public university students by eligible nonprofit organizations.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases under the Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justicefor purposes related to federal Victims of Crime Act grants.
Creates additional rules and requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and a policy or certificate of health insurance or other contract providing for the reimbursement of the cost of a prescription drug.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys out of the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for deposit in the Rangeland Protection Association Fund.
Increases the tax credit allowed to rural volunteer emergency medical services providers from $250 per tax year to $1,000 per tax year.
Requires at least one member of the Research Vessel Council to be a trained scientist from the University of Oregon.
Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study mule deer in the Steens Mountain herd range area.
Requires an electric public utility to apply for a wildfire safety certification.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
Repeals provisions related to building code standards for wildfire hazard mitigation, defensible space requirements, fire protection for lands outside forest protection districts and the wildfire hazard map.
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Requires a commercial entity that engages in the business of publishing or distributing sexual material harmful to minors to verify the ages of individuals to whom the commercial entity distributes or makes available the sexual material harmful to minors.
Removes statutory provisions related to religion in public charter schools.
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Requires courts to order the removal of trespassers from a residence upon a sworn declaration from an owner or their agent.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the effects on small businesses of sales and use prohibitions on polystyrene foam containers, polystyrene foam packaging peanuts and foodware containers containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a program to assess, monitor and track the language developmental milestones of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Allows battery-charged fences on properties not used as residences.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for interest received by financial institutions from loans made for purchase or improvement of agricultural real estate, rural residences and coastal fishing boats.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for overtime pay received by a taxpayer during the tax year.
Amends landowner immunity provisions to focus on the activities and outdoor location of injured users and not the users' intended purposes.
Allows an additional estate tax exclusion of $7 million.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the State Department of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding for the administration and enforcement of the safety and health standards for agricultural labor housing.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Increases the additional amount paid for electric vehicle registration.
Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of violations of such laws.
Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the qualified students.
Repeals the changes made by House Bill 3124 (2021) to the statutes governing local removal of homeless individuals from established camping sites.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Authorizes the Department of Education to use moneys in the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to fund grants to manage programs of study in agricultural science and technology between school years.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Directs the Oregon Drinking Water Services of the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program for training drinking water system operators.
Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to provide grants and funding for drug treatment and other related services.
Creates rebuttable presumption that equal parenting time is in the best interests of the child.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that provide apprenticeship opportunities.
Increases sentencing guidelines for felony attempting to elude a police officer.
Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027.
Increases the percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as a credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Instructs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify certain areas as wildlife management units or herd ranges and undertake predator control in the wildlife management units or herd ranges until certain criteria are met.
Establishes the Task Force on Rangeland Wildfire Resilience and Risk Reduction.
Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to procure and maintain vehicles for purposes related to fuel and personnel needs at certain airports.
Amends conditions under which a county must approve a farm stand on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
Permits a person to operate Class I, Class III and Class IV all-terrain vehicles on highways that are not interstate highways if the all-terrain vehicle meets vehicle equipment standards and the all-terrain vehicle is registered.
Allows counties to adopt an ordinance or resolution that provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, a specially assessed value for the owner-occupied primary residences of individuals who are at least 62 years of age.
Directs the Department of Education to review and update information collected for a survey of the academic assessments administered to the students of this state by school districts.
Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs.
Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable electricity prior to retiring an electric power generating facility that provides reliable or dispatchable electricity.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Allows a partial exemption of ad valorem property taxes due on the owner-occupied principal dwelling of an individual who is at least 65 years of age and the individual's surviving spouse regardless of age.
Limits the applicability of certain administrative rules relating to the siting, permitting or location of agricultural labor housing in connection with a livestock operation.
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
Requires the Department of Education to transfer from the State School Fund to the Talented and Gifted Education Account an amount that equals one percent of the total amount available to school districts as general purpose grants.
Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the council to take an exception to an applicable statewide planning goal for a proposed energy facility.
Makes the Legislative Counsel, rather than the Attorney General, responsible for drafting ballot titles for state measures.
Specifies that electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard.
Establishes the Move Oregon-Idaho Border Task Force to document the state and federal legal and legislative processes that must take place to relocate the Oregon and Idaho state boundaries to include specified Oregon counties in Idaho.
Requires a person that proposes to construct a building or structure located within 1,000 feet of an interstate pipeline to notify the Oregon Utility Notification Center.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Exempts lamps used for the care of animals from a prohibition on the sale and distribution of fluorescent lamps.
Requires public bodies and law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws with respect to any individual who is convicted of a violent felony or Class A misdemeanor or felony sexual offense.
Requires insurers to offer personal injury protection benefits to persons insured under the insurer's motor vehicle liability policy, but makes the decision to elect to receive personal injury protection benefits optional.
Prohibits an individual from collecting and returning a ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Increases fees related to livestock brands.
Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Requires school districts and certain private schools to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Increases the Oregon standard deduction allowed for personal income taxpayers.
Creates a property tax exemption for the owner-occupied principal dwelling of seniors who are at least 65 years of age, have resided in the dwelling for at least 10 years and have a household income not greater than $150,000 per year.
Expands the crime of murder in the second degree to include intentionally or knowingly engaging in unlawful conduct that causes the death of an unborn child.
Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district.
Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for tips received by the taxpayer during the tax year.
Directs a state agency to establish deadlines within which the agency intends to process applications for permits and make the deadlines available to the public.
Requires the State Department of Energy to study the need to expand electric transmission infrastructure in this state.
Allows an exclusion from the Oregon taxable estate of a surviving spouse for the unused portion of exclusion that applied to the prior deceased spouse of the decedent.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Increases the penalty for operating an unmanned aircraft system over a critical infrastructure facility that is a correctional facility or youth correction facility.
Appropriates moneys to the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision for purposes of eliminating the backlog of sex offenders who have not yet been assessed and placed into a risk level.
Creates the crime of initiating a false report in the first degree.
Removes the requirement that architectural paint be collected by a stewardship organization to be excluded from the definition of "covered product" under the packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware producer responsibility law.
Prohibits a research facility from using public funds to directly fund medically unnecessary laboratory research on dogs or cats that is classified under certain pain and distress categories.
Prohibits strikes by public employees.
Makes municipalities eligible for financial assistance for certain levee projects.