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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2976
Sponsored by Representative HARTMAN; Representatives ANDERSEN, CHAICHI, GAMBA, HUDSON, NGUYEN
H, PHAM H, SMITH G, SOSA, WALTERS, Senators CAMPOS, FREDERICK, GORSEK, MANNING JR,
PATTERSON, REYNOLDS, WOODS (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: The Act gives money to DAS to give to groups for indigenous languages. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 69.9).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Ser-
vices for distribution to nonprofit groups for purposes related to interpretation of indigenous lan-
guages.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $1,500,000 for distribution to Pueblo Unido
PDX, a domestic nonprofit corporation, for:
(1) Facilitating the creation of additional language proficiency evaluations for interpret-
ers of indigenous languages spoken in present-day Mexico, Central America or South Amer-
ica; and
(2) Recruitment, training, retention and coordination of interpretation assignments for
individuals who need interpretation for an indigenous language of present-day Mexico, Cen-
tral America or South America.
SECTION 2.In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $500,000 for distribution to Oregon Worker
Relief, a domestic nonprofit corporation, for payments to individuals who provide interpre-
tation services for languages that are the national languages of small countries from which
local populations have emigrated, languages spoken by small ethnic minority groups or lan-
guages spoken by indigenous groups.
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 3326