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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5038
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Oregon Department of
AdministrativeServices)
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 creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for certain
biennial expenses.
Limits biennial expenditures by the department from lottery moneys for certain purposes.
Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscella-
neous Receipts and Oregon War Veterans’ Bond Sinking Account, but excluding lottery funds and
federal funds, collected or received by the department.
Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds.
Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, for the
followingpurposes:
(1)Operations................................. $ 227,256
(2)Appeals and special advocacy...$4,801,765
(3)Strategic partnership................$4,286,191
(4)Aging veteran services.............$ 725,519
(5)Debt service..............................$ 376,828
SECTION 2.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Veterans’ Services Fund established
under ORS 406.140 to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$2,766,920
(2)Appeals and special advocacy...$2,155,116
(3)Strategic partnership................$16,342,074
(4)Aging veteran services.............$3,606,304
SECTION 3.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $551,000
is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for payment of
expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Devel-
opment Fund to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for debt service related to the veterans’
affordable housing project.
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
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 9038 HB5038
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SECTION 4. (1) Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following
amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts
and the Oregon War Veterans’ Bond Sinking Account, but excluding lottery funds and fed-
eral funds, collected or received by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for the following
purposes:
(a)Operations................................. $19,573,468
(b)Home loan program ..................$5,902,437
(c)Oregon Veterans’ Home
program....................................$120,222,302
(d)Debt service..............................$1,582,846
(e)Bond-related issuance costs......$ 350,000
(2) This section does not limit expenditures from the Oregon War Veterans’ Bond Sinking
Account for purposes described in section 6 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$1,961,694 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from federal funds collected or received by the Department of Veterans’
Affairs.
SECTION 6. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Department
of Veterans’ Affairs for the following purposes are not limited:
(1) Debt service;
(2) Professional services and related costs associated directly with bond sales;
(3) Loans to veterans; and
(4) Payments on behalf of borrowers for property taxes, city liens, fire insurance, mort-
gage cancellation insurance and repairs to and miscellaneous charges for borrower-owned
property that are charged to the loan account and repaid along with the payment of loan
interest and principal.
SECTION 7. 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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