HB3847 • 2025

Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local governments to support middle housing infrastructure.

Housing

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local governments to support middle housing infrastructure.

Digest: This Act makes DLCD give grants for denser housing.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act makes DLCD give grants for denser housing.
(Flesch Readability Score: 94.3).
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local governments to support middle housing infrastructure.
Exempts local governments from requirements to allow middle housing while grants are pending.

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-04 House
Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-02-27 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act makes DLCD give grants for denser housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3).
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local governments to support middle housing infrastructure. Exempts local governments from requirements to allow middle housing while grants are pending.
Sunsets January 2, 2028.
Appropriates moneys to the department for the grants.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to middle housing; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3847
Sponsored by Representative BOSHART DAVIS
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 DLCD give grants for denser housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3).
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local
governments to support middle housing infrastructure. Exempts local governments from require-
ments to allow middle housing while grants are pending.
Sunsets January 2, 2028.
Appropriates moneys to the department for the grants.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to middle 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 chapter 197A.
SECTION 2. (1) The Department of Land Conservation and Development shall award
grants to local governments for the purposes of infrastructure improvements, including for
transportation or water or sewer infrastructure, that are necessary to support the develop-
ment of middle housing that the recipient local government must allow under ORS 197A.420
(2) or (3).
(2) A local government is not required to allow middle housing under ORS 197A.420 (2)
or (3) for lands for which a grant has been sought under this section from the date that the
local government submits a grant application until the earlier of:
(a) The award of a grant to the local government under this section; or
(b) The repeal date of this section.
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 Department of Land Conservation and Development, for the biennium beginning
July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $50 million, to award grants under
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.
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