HB2259 • 2025

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.

Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing.
(Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to housing.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Housing and Homelessness.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to housing.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2259
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Housing and Homelessness)
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 tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to
the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to housing.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Housing and Community Services Department shall study issues re-
garding housing. The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS
192.245 to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later
than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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 1826