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SB600 • 2025

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing.

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing.

Housing
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Senator Campos,, Representative Sosa
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate 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 study affordable housing.

Digest: Tells a state agency to study how to make housing more affordable for some people.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells a state agency to study how to make housing more affordable for some people.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
  • Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to affordable housing not later than September 15, 2026.

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 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Housing and Development.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells a state agency to study how to make housing more affordable for some people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to affordable housing not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to affordable housing.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 600
Sponsored by Senator CAMPOS, Representative SOSA (Presession filed.)
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 how to make housing more affordable for some people.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing. Directs
the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
affordable housing not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to affordable housing.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Housing and Community Services Department shall study affordable
housing. The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to affordable 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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