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Oregon · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 3372: Relating to exempt uses of water.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 3372 is a bill introduced in the Oregon House on January 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to exempt uses of water. Primary sponsor: Mark Owens (Republican), Ken Helm (Democratic), Floyd Prozanski (Democratic). It lists 7 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 24, 2025): Chapter 283, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Permits certain exempt ground water users to withdraw up to 3,000 gallons of water per day for watering any lawn or noncommercial or commercial garden that does not exceed one-half acre. <b>Provides that the exemption applies to the use of water for growing industrial hemp but otherwise not to the use of water to grow plants in the plant Cannabis family Cannabaceae. Provides that, for two years, the exemption does not apply to the use of ground water for watering any commercial garden in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area.</b> Specifies that the total combined use for industrial or commercial purposes, when combined with a commercial garden, may not exceed 5,000 gallons per day.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 9 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mark OwensPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse60
Ken HelmPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse27
Floyd ProzanskiPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate4
Mark GambaCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse41
David GombergCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
Annessa HartmanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse40
Cyrus JavadiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse32
Pam MarshCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse5
Courtney Neron MisslinCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate13
Janeen SollmanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chapter 283, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026.
  2. Governor signed.
  3. President signed.
  4. Speaker signed.
  5. House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
  6. Third reading. Carried by Prozanski. Passed.
  7. Carried over to 05-23 by unanimous consent.
  8. Carried over to 05-22 by unanimous consent.
  9. Carried over to 05-21 by unanimous consent.
  10. Second reading.
  11. Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.)
  12. Public Hearing and Work Session held.

Showing 12 most recent of 24 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source