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HB2521 • 2025

Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.

Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Evans
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 Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.

Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.
  • Tells ODVA to submit a report on its findings.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
  • Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes ODVA do a study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans. Tells ODVA to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
Requires the Department of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans. Directs the department to submit a report on the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans no later than November 1, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to veteran-owned small businesses; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2521
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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: Makes ODVA do a study on the status of small businesses owned by veterans. Tells
ODVA to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4).
Requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a statewide study on the status of
small businesses owned by veterans. Directs the department to submit a report on the study to the
interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to veterans no later than November 1, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to veteran-owned small businesses; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall conduct a statewide study
regarding the status of small businesses owned by veterans in Oregon. The study must
identify barriers to veteran-owned small business expansion and capitalization and must
make recommendations to improve support and opportunities for the veteran-owned small
businesses in this state.
(2) The department shall collaborate with the Oregon Business Development Department
in conducting the study under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall submit a report on the study conducted
under subsection (1) of this section in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to veterans no later than November 1, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. 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
on its passage.
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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