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HB2654 • 2025

Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Services Department.

Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Services Department.

Housing
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

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act creates and funds an OHCS program for housing disabled veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Establishes the emergency veterans housing program within the Housing and Community Services Department. Requires the department, in coordination with the Department of Veterans' Affairs and an advisory board, to award grants for the project costs of residential housing for persons of lower income who are service-disabled veterans and their families.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for the program.
Sunsets January 2, 2030.
Relating to: Relating to the emergency veterans housing program.
Current location: In House Committee