Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.

Digest: Tells a state agency to study what code exemptions are needed for housing for workers.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: Tells a state agency to study what code exemptions are needed for housing for workers.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
• Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.
• Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells a state agency to study what code exemptions are needed for housing for workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to workforce housing.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1059
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB
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: Tells a state agency to study what code exemptions are needed for housing for workers.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from
building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state. Directs the department
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later
than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to workforce housing.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Consumer and Business Services shall study needed ex-
emptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.
The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may in-
clude recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assem-
bly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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