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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3649
Ordered by the House April 11
Including House Amendments dated April 11
Sponsored by Representative MARSH, Senator ANDERSON
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: This Act makes DAS give a grant to a charity to support market rate housing
via regional subgrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
[Digest: This Act makes HAPO give money to charities by region to enable the region to build
homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).]
Requires the [Housing Accountability and Production Office] Oregon Department of Adminis-
trative Services to provide [grants] a grant to a nonprofit by January 1, 2026, to provide up
to five regional subgrants for regional housing coordination [by January 1, 2026]. Requires the
[office] department to report on the [grants] grant to an interim committee of the Legislative As-
sembly related to housing on or before September 15, 2027. Appropriates moneys to the department
[of Land Conservation and Development] out of the General Fund for [grants] the grant.
Sunsets January 2, 2028.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to regional housing coordination; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall award a grant
to a public benefit nonprofit corporation with expertise in public-private partnerships to
provide regional housing coordination services to support the development of market rate
housing within the region, including through support provided by:
(a) Informing local businesses, school districts, hospitals and other employers about op-
portunities to coinvest in housing;
(b) Providing connections among local governments, investment partners, and land and
housingresources;
(c) Informing local governments and their elected officials of opportunities to contribute
to housing coinvestment efforts, including by providing financial incentives, identifying
available lands for development and eliminating existing barriers;
(d) Maintaining a collection of available city, county, state and federal housing
coinvestment resources to share with public bodies, developers, nonprofit corporations and
other businesses; and
(e) Assisting housing development partners and local governments in facilitating agree-
ments and strategies.
(2) The recipient of the grant shall:
(a) Provide up to five subgrants throughout this state; and
(b) Coordinate with the Regional Solutions Program under ORS 284.754.
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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(3) The grant under this section must be awarded on or before January 1, 2026.
(4) On or before September 15, 2027, the department shall provide a report to an interim
committee of the Legislative Assembly related to housing in the manner provided in ORS
192.245 on the results of the grant program under this section.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028.
SECTION 3.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 $2,500,000, to implement section 1 of this 2025
Act.
SECTION 4.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.
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