Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.

Digest: This Act requires OHCS to study low-cost housing.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: This Act requires OHCS to study low-cost housing.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
• Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
• Relating to: Relating to affordable housing.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act requires OHCS to study low-cost housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
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 601
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: This Act requires OHCS to study low-cost housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and
submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later
than September 15, 2026.
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 and 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 re-
lated 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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