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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2976
Ordered by the House March 28
Including House Amendments dated March 28
Sponsored by Representative HARTMAN; Representatives ANDERSEN, CHAICHI, GAMBA, HUDSON, MUNOZ,
NGUYEN H, PHAM H, 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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act gives money to DAS to give to a group for indigenous languages. (Flesch
Readability Score: 71.7).
[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 a nonprofit [groups] group for purposes related to interpretation of
indigenouslanguages.
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.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.
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