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HB3759 • 2025

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges.

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges.

Housing
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

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 provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges.

Digest: This Act makes OHCS give grants for fees for moderate income housing developers.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act makes OHCS give grants for fees for moderate income housing developers.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
  • Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges.
  • Appropriates moneys for grants.

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. 2025-03-04 House

    Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act makes OHCS give grants for fees for moderate income housing developers. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the development of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges. Appropriates moneys for grants.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to costs of developing housing; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3759
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 makes OHCS give grants for fees for moderate income housing developers.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for the develop-
ment of moderate income housing, paid to cover or offset permitting fees and charges. Appropriates
moneys for grants.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to costs of developing housing; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 456.515 to
456.725.
SECTION 2. (1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall provide grants
to developers of moderate income housing for the purposes of paying for permitting fees or
system development charges for the construction of moderate income housing.
(2) The department may not award more than the total amount of fees and charges as-
sessed for the development.
(3) The department shall distribute grant moneys awarded under this section directly to
the local government or service district assessing the fee or charge.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028.
SECTION 4. 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, the amount of $15,000,000 to implement section 2 of this 2025
Act.
SECTION 5. 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 4375