Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3847: Relating to middle housing; declaring an emergency.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: This Act makes DLCD give grants for denser housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3). Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to local governments to support middle housing infrastructure. Exempts local governments from requirements to allow middle housing while grants are pending. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Appropriates moneys to the department for the grants. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
What the bill says
A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to middle housing; and declaring an emergency.
From the introduced text, February 26, 2025:
A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to middle housing; and declaring an emergency. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 197A. SECTION 2. (1) The Department of Land Conservation and Development shall award grants to local governments for the purposes of infrastructure improvements, including for transportation or water or sewer infrastructure, that are necessary to support the development of middle housing that the recipient local government must allow under ORS 197A.420 (2) or (3). (2) A local government is not required to allow middle housing under ORS 197A.420 (2) or (3) for lands for which a grant has been sought under this section from the date that the local government submits a grant application until the earlier or (b) The repeal date of this section. SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028. SECTION 4. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropriated to the Department of Land Conservation and Development, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $50 million, to award grants under section 2 of this 2025 Act. SECTION 5. This 2025 Act being necessary for …
Sponsors
- Shelly Boshart Davis (R, 15) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : In committee upon adjournment.
- : Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
- : First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Subjects: Housing and Homelessness
Common questions
- What is HB3847?
- HB3847 is a bill in the Oregon Legislature (2025 Legislative Measures): Relating to middle housing; declaring an emergency.
- What does HB3847 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to middle housing; and declaring an emergency.
- What is the status of HB3847?
- Failed as of June 27, 2025. Latest action: In committee upon adjournment. (June 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB3847?
- Shelly Boshart Davis (R, 15).
- Where is the official record for HB3847?
- On the Oregon Legislature website: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/3847
Source: official Oregon record. Tracked by Delilah, AI for legislation across all 50 states and Congress.