HB3676 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Edwards
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.

Digest: This Act tells OHA to create a grant program for small city drinking and waste water facilities.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act tells OHA to create a grant program for small city drinking and waste water facilities.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.
Establishes the Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-27 House
Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water.
2025-02-25 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act tells OHA to create a grant program for small city drinking and waste water facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.
Establishes the Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund.
Relating to: Relating to a grant program for community water infrastructure.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3676
Sponsored by Representative EDWARDS
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 tells OHA to create a grant program for small city drinking and waste water
facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental
Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking
water and wastewater facilities.
Establishes the Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a grant program for community water infrastructure.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Eligible community” means a city with a population of less than 20,000.
(b) “Sewage treatment works” has the meaning given that term in ORS 448.405.
(c) “Water system” has the meaning given that term in ORS 448.405.
(2) The Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with the Department of Environmental
Quality, shall establish a program to provide grants to eligible communities to repair or re-
place water systems or sewage treatment works.
(3) An application for a grant under this section shall be made in the form and manner
prescribed by the authority. Before awarding a grant under this section for the repair or
replacement of sewage treatment works, the authority must provide a copy of the grant ap-
plication to the department for comment.
(4) Grants awarded under this section shall be made from moneys credited to or depos-
ited in the Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund established under section 2 of this
2025 Act.
(5) The authority, in consultation with the department, may adopt rules as necessary for
the administration of this section.
SECTION 2.
(1) The Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund is established in the
State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Small
Community Water Infrastructure Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) Moneys in the fund shall consist of:
(a) Amounts appropriated or otherwise transferred to the fund by the Legislative As-
sembly; and
(b) Other amounts deposited in the fund from any public or private source.
(3) Moneys in the Small Community Water Infrastructure Fund are continuously appro-
priated to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of awarding grants under section 1
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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