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HB3032 • 2025

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness.

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness.

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 homelessness.

Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study homelessness.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study homelessness.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
  • Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing not later than September 15, 2026.

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: The Act tells OHCS to study homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to homelessness.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3032
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Housing and Community Services Department)
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 homelessness. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness. Directs the
department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
housing not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to homelessness.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Housing and Community Services Department shall study issues re-
garding homelessness. The department 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 520