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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2835
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act tells ODVA to create some agency staff jobs and gives lottery moneys for
veterans’ programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to fill and utilize certain positions.
Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans’ Services Fund for specified purposes.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to veterans; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall fill and utilize the following po-
sitions:
(1) Three full-time equivalent positions for the department’s function as the state ap-
proving agency for veterans’ education and training;
(2) One full-time equivalent position for campus veterans programming; and
(3) One full-time equivalent position for the Veteran Educational Bridge Grant Program
established under ORS 408.115.
SECTION 2. There are allocated for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, from the
Veterans’ Services Fund, to the Veterans’ Department of Veterans’ Affairs Dedicated Lot-
tery Fund, the following amounts for the following purposes:
(1)Veteran Educational Bridge
Grant Program.........................$ 325,000
(2)Campus veteran resource
center grant program...............$ 500,000
(3)Department of Veterans’
Affairs Veteran Services
Grant Fund...............................$ 250,000
(4)Grants to counties for
veterans’ courts........................$ 100,000
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2184