HB 3940 — Imposes a tax on the distribution of oral nicotine products.

Congress · introduced 2025-03-17

Digest: The Act raises and moves money to pay for wildfire costs. The Act makes certain changes to laws related to forests and fire protection. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). [Places a surcharge on sales of beverage containers for purposes of wildfire prevention and response.] [Directs insurance retaliatory tax revenue to wildfire prevention and response.] [Transfers one-half percent of General Fund appropriations per biennium to funds for wildfire prevention and response.] [Transfers 50 percent of the amount held in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund to funds for wildfire prevention and response.] Imposes a tax on the distribution of oral nicotine products. Directs the revenues to purposes related to wildfire. Directs a portion of the interest from the Rainy Day Fund to purposes related to wildfire. Removes the end date for completion of certain wildfire risk reduction projects. Makes certain changes related to the forest products harvest tax, forest protection districts, minimum assessments and surcharges, the Emergency Fire Cost Committee, forestland acreage assessments, zones for fire protection in certain areas and rural fire protection districts. [Authorizes certain transfers from the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund. Requires the Legislative Assembly to make moneys available to the State Forestry Department and the Department of the State Fire Marshal to repay loans from the State Treasurer for wildfire suppression costs.] Directs the State Treasurer to transfer moneys between agencies when requested for certain wildfire costs. Appropriates moneys to a borrowing agency if the agency has insufficient available moneys to repay transferred amounts. Creates an offset against fire protection costs for certain forestland. Removes transfer and reporting requirements relating to the State Forestry Department Cash Flow Repayment Fund. Provides for a grant program for retrofitting of dwellings for wildfire resilience. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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Inbound (4)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2025-03-17	Levy, Bobby	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2025-03-17	Lively, John	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2025-03-17	Broadman, Anthony	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2025-03-17	Lieber, Kate	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Broadman, Anthony (D, state_upper OR-27)	sponsor	—	5
2	Levy, Bobby (R, state_lower OR-58)	sponsor	—	5
3	Lieber, Kate (D, state_upper OR-14)	sponsor	—	5
4	Lively, John (D, state_lower OR-7)	sponsor	—	5

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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2025-03-17 · sponsored by Broadman, Anthony (sponsor) · sponsorship
2025-03-17 · sponsored by Lively, John (sponsor) · sponsorship
2025-03-17 · sponsored by Lieber, Kate (sponsor) · sponsorship
2025-03-17 · sponsored by Levy, Bobby (sponsor) · sponsorship

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