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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2991
Sponsored by Representatives RUIZ, SMITH G, Senator REYNOLDS; Representative GOMBERG, Senators
CAMPOS, GOLDEN, GORSEK, MEEK (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 moneys to an agency to fund help for low-income people with their taxes.
(Flesch Readability Score:68.9).
Appropriates moneys to be used for funding outreach regarding federal earned income tax
credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation to low-income individ-
uals.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to services for assisting low-income individuals with tax navigation; 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 Department of Human Services, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of
the General Fund, the amount of $14,000,000, which may be expended to carry out the pro-
visions of ORS 409.711.
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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