l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2968

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee a housing developer's payment of system development charges that the local government has agreed to defer until after occupancy.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act makes OHCS guarantee a local government's collection of a fee to be paid by a home builder on a delayed schedule. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee a housing developer's payment of system development charges that the local government has agreed to defer until after occupancy. Allows the department to assess a civil penalty and interest against defaulting developers. Allows the Department of Revenue to pursue collections against developers. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Establishes the Municipal Development Protection Fund for such purposes. Appropriates moneys to the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

3 co-sponsors

John Lively, Boomer Wright, Sue Rieke Smith

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Khanh Pham

    Its course

    January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action7 actions on 6 days

    In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

    Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

    Housing and HomelessnessJan 17 to Mar 2870 days

    Ways and MeansMar 28 to Jun 27 · stopped91 days

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27

    1. Jan 13Introduced
    2. Jan 17Sent to Housing and Homelessness
    3. Mar 12Heard in Housing and Homelessness
    4. Mar 24Heard in Housing and Homelessness
    5. Mar 28Housing and Homelessness recommended it, and that it go to Ways and Means
    6. Sent to Ways and Means
    7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
    All 7 actions, as published
    1. Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
    2. Jan 17Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
    3. Mar 12Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
    4. Mar 24Work Session held.House of Representatives
    5. Mar 28Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
    6. Mar 28Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
    7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives