HB3734 • 2025

Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute to specified organizations to continue housing and homelessness program services.

Housing

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Nelson,, Senator Manning Jr
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute to specified organizations to continue housing and homelessness program services.

Digest: The Act pays OHCS to fund housing programs run by specific nonprofits.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act pays OHCS to fund housing programs run by specific nonprofits.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute to specified organizations to continue housing and homelessness program services.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-27 House
Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-02-25 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act pays OHCS to fund housing programs run by specific nonprofits. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute to specified organizations to continue housing and homelessness program services.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to state financial administration of Housing and Community Services Department programs; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3734
Sponsored by Representative NELSON, Senator MANNING JR
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 pays OHCS to fund housing programs run by specific nonprofits. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 67.7).
Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute to
specified organizations to continue housing and homelessness program services.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state financial administration of Housing and Community Services Department programs;
and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Housing and Community Services Department, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund:
(1) $36,000,000 to provide rental assistance and homelessness prevention services through
distribution of the following amounts:
(a) $18,000,000 to Oregon Worker Relief.
(b) $15,000,000 to The Urban League of Portland, Inc.
(c) $3,000,000 to the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
(2) $9,500,000 to provide rehousing and housing placement services through distribution
of the following amounts:
(a) $5,000,000 to The Urban League of Portland, Inc.
(b) $4,500,000 to Oregon Worker Relief.
SECTION 2.
This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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 4147