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HB3832 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Owens
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.

Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.

Digest: This Act tells DAS to give a grant to create a collaborative center in Harney County.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act tells DAS to give a grant to create a collaborative center in Harney County.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
  • Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.
  • Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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 Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade 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 tells DAS to give a grant to create a collaborative center in Harney County. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to the creation of a collaborative center; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3832
Sponsored by Representative OWENS
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 DAS to give a grant to create a collaborative center in Harney County.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to a nonprofit
organization to establish a collaborative center in Harney County.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the creation of a collaborative center; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “collaborative center” means a facility operated
by a nonprofit organization that provides services to encourage and develop collaborative
problem solving approaches that support community-based decision-making and build overall
local community capacity.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall award a grant to a nonprofit
organization for expenses related to establishing and staffing a collaborative center in
Harney County to support place-based collaborative approaches to addressing public issues.
Services provided by the collaborative center may include, but need not be limited to:
(a) Opportunities for individuals or organizations to experience and participate in ongoing
collaborative processes involving a variety of industries, including economic and ecological
endeavors, in southeastern Oregon;
(b) Third party facilitation contracting;
(c) Collaborative consultation;
(d) Collaborative process training;
(e) Collaborative mentoring;
(f) Third party monitoring; and
(g) Capacity building to support community-based collaborative efforts.
(3) The operator of the collaborative center shall consult and coordinate with existing
state-sponsored collaborative programs to:
(a) Avoid duplication of efforts;
(b) Leverage existing resources; and
(c) Ensure that unmet needs for collaborative services in southeastern Oregon are being
fulfilled.
SECTION 2.
In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $2,750,000, for the purpose of awarding a
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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grant to High Desert Partnership pursuant to section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3.
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.
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