OR SB1537 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: Passed on April 18 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-18 - Effective date, June 6, 2024.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: Passed on April 18 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-18 - Effective date, June 6, 2024.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
The Act establishes a housing office to support and enforce housing laws; lets home builders use updated local rules; awards lawyer fees for more housing appeals; assists with infrastructure for housing; creates a fund for grants to developers of affordable housing; makes cities approve changes to housing rules; makes cities expedite applications to build housing; lets cities change their growth boundaries; and gives money to DLCD, BO and OHCS for this Act. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development and the Department of Consumer and Business Services to jointly establish and administer the Housing Accountability and Production Office. Requires the office to assist local governments and housing developers with housing laws. Authorizes the office to take certain actions to enforce housing laws. Becomes operative on July 1, 2025. Allows a housing developer with a pending application to opt in to amended local land use regulations. Expands eligibility for attorney fees on appeal of the approval of a residential development proposal to include local governments and [all] affordable housing or housing within urban growth boundaries. Creates the Housing Infrastructure Support Fund to allow the Oregon Business Development Department to provide capacity and support to local governments in developing infrastructure to support residential development. Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to [biennially] report to the Legislative Assembly before 2025 on proposed infrastructure projects that may support residential development. Authorizes cities and counties to adopt a program for awarding grants to developers of affordable housing and moderate income housing projects to finance certain costs associated with such housing projects. Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a revolving loan program to make interest-free loans to participating cities and counties to fund the grants. Imposes an annual fee on each grantee developer in repayment of the loans. Provides for the distribution of the fee moneys first to fire districts for ad valorem property taxes and then to the department in repayment of the loan that funded the grant awarded to the developer. Requires local governments to approve certain adjustments to land use regulations for housing development within an urban growth boundary as a limited land use decision. Establishes an exemption process. Requires reporting to the Department of Land Conservation and Development on the use of adjustments. Requires the department to report biennially to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly. Sunsets on January 2, 2032. Requires local governments to process certain applications relating to housing development as limited land use decisions. Develops alternative processes to amend urban growth boundaries to include up to 100 net residential acres per city. Provides for limitations and review by counties, Metro and the Department of Land Conservation and Development and the courts. Sunsets on January 2, 2033. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department, Housing and Community Services Department and Department of Land Conservation and Development for purposes of the Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Title
Relating to housing; prescribing an effective date.
Sponsors
| No sponsor information available at this time. |
Roll Calls
2024-03-04 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 48 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-02-29 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-28 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-13 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. Refer to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng) (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-29 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-28 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-13 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. Refer to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng) (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-18 | Senate | Effective date, June 6, 2024. |
| 2024-04-18 | Senate | Chapter 110, 2024 Laws. |
| 2024-04-17 | Senate | Governor signed. |
| 2024-03-05 | House | Speaker signed. |
| 2024-03-05 | Senate | President signed. |
| 2024-03-04 | House | Vote explanation(s) filed by Andersen, Yunker. |
| 2024-03-04 | House | Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Dexter, Gomberg. Passed. Ayes, 50; Nays, 6--Neron, Reschke, Scharf, Stout, Walters, Yunker; Excused, 3--Boshart Davis, Cramer, Hartman; Excused for Business of the House, 1--Hieb. |
| 2024-03-04 | House | Potential conflict(s) of interest declared by Nguyen D, Pham H. |
| 2024-03-04 | House | Second reading. |
| 2024-03-01 | House | Recommendation: Do pass. |
| 2024-02-29 | House | Referred to Ways and Means. |
| 2024-02-29 | House | First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Vote explanation(s) filed by Boquist, Sollman. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Knopp declared potential conflict of interest. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Jama, Anderson. Passed. Ayes, 21; Nays, 7--Bonham, Boquist, Linthicum, Manning Jr, Prozanski, Robinson, Thatcher; Excused, 2--Gorsek, Hansell. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Rules suspended. Second reading. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) |
| 2024-02-28 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-27 | Senate | Returned to Full Committee. |
| 2024-02-27 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-24 | Senate | Assigned to Subcommittee On Transportation and Economic Development. |
| 2024-02-16 | Senate | Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. |
| 2024-02-16 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.) |
| 2024-02-13 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-08 | Senate | Public Hearing held. |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Referred to Housing and Development, then Ways and Means. |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
