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HB2894 • 2025

Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.

Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.

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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.

Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.

Digest: The Act would direct a portion of lottery revenue for tuition waivers for certain soldiers.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act would direct a portion of lottery revenue for tuition waivers for certain soldiers.
  • The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
  • Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.

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 Higher Education and Workforce Development with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would direct a portion of lottery revenue for tuition waivers for certain soldiers. The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of providing tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National Guard.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to the Oregon Military Department; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2894
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: The Act would direct a portion of lottery revenue for tuition waivers for certain soldiers.
The Act takes effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
Allocates $500,000 of lottery revenue to the Oregon Military Department for purposes of pro-
viding tuition waivers for eligible post-secondary institutions to members of the Oregon National
Guard.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Oregon Military Department; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) There is allocated for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, from the Ad-
ministrative Services Economic Development Fund, to the Oregon Military Department, the
amount of $500,000.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures:
(a) The amount of $475,000 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the
maximum limit for payment of expenses by the Oregon Military Department from lottery
moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund for the
purpose of providing tuition waivers to members of the Oregon National Guard as provided
in ORS 399.275.
(b) The amount of $25,000 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the
maximum limit for payment of expenses by the Oregon Military Department from lottery
moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund for the
purpose of paying administrative costs associated with providing tuition waivers to members
of the Oregon National Guard as provided in ORS 399.275 from the funds allocated under
subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The department may not pay for a tuition waiver for a member of the Oregon Na-
tional Guard from the funds allocated under subsection (1) of this section unless the member
has exhausted all federal tuition assistance programs available to the member.
SECTION 2.
This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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 1793