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HB2783 • 2025

Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.

Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than 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
Housing and Homelessness,
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 Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.

Digest: This Act requires DOJ to study squatting.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act requires DOJ to study squatting.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).
  • Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
  • Relating to: Relating to squatting.

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 Housing and Homelessness.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act requires DOJ to study squatting. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).
Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to squatting.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2783
Sponsored by Representative SMITH G (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: This Act requires DOJ to study squatting. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8).
Requires the Department of Justice to study squatting and submit findings to the interim com-
mittees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to squatting.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Justice shall study squatting and shall submit a report
in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation,
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 1761