Sen. Kayse Jama

Requires Oregon Department of Emergency Management, during certain emergencies, to prioritize immediate provision of housing to displaced individuals. ] Provides that, if certain state agencies provide temporary housing to displaced individuals in response to emergency, agencies shall ensure housing is safe and provided in compliance with state and federal laws relating to discrimination. Provides that, if federal housing ] resources are made available to affected community in response to emergency , requires department to provide housing ] certain state agencies may provide similar or equivalent resources to community members who are ineligible to receive federal resources due to immigration status ] , subject to availability of funds . Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Appropriates moneys from General Fund to support implementation of AgriStress Helpline in Oregon. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis within Housing and Community Services Department. Establishes timeline by which department must adopt rules and implement analysis components. ] Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization , including requiring Metro to adopt housing coordination strategy and allowing cities outside of Metro to adopt rural reserves. Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt or amend implementing rules by January 1, 2026 ]. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

During state of emergency due to homelessness, allows Housing and Community Services Department to expand ] Expands landlord guarantee program to include landlords providing housing to tenants receiving other ] who have received rental assistance under specified rehousing initiative . Sunsets January 2, 2026. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Limits improvements that landlord of manufactured dwelling park may require of tenant. Requires Attorney General to update model statement by January 1, 2025. ] Extends until January 2, 2027, sunset for grants for legal assistance for low-income facility tenants and for existence of Manufactured and Marina Communities Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee. Amends legal assistance grant program. Limits income-to-rent ratio for facility applicants who receive disability or Social Security income. ] Expands affordable housing that is developable on nonresidential lands. Expands manufactured dwelling park preservation loan program to allow loaned moneys to be used to develop new parks. Allows Housing and Community Services Department to apply program change to moneys already loaned.

Requires entity that receives funds for certain workforce program initiatives to establish wage standards and develop training plan for individuals who participate in program administered by entity if, under program, entity provides individuals with paid work experience. Provides that individual that performs work for recipient under program shall be considered employee of recipient for purposes of state wage and hour laws and state laws prohibiting discrimination and retaliation. Requires industry consortia representing certain industry sectors to establish wage rate standards for skilled occupations within sectors. Requires additional information to be included in report submitted by Higher Education Coordinating Commission to interim committee of Legislative Assembly. ].

Declares children who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind have same rights and potential as children who are not deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind. Requires school districts to provide children who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind with hearing and vision screenings and assessments, communication and language support and access to relevant services and programs at earliest possible age and throughout education experience.

Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to study grants under Healthy Homes Program. Directs authority to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to public health not later than September 15, 2024. ] Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to establish by rule maximum percentage of grant funds that grant recipients under Healthy Homes Program may use for administrative expenses. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries. Allows local governments to extend decision-making period for application to develop residential structures within urban growth boundary or to reconsider land use decision for development of residential structures. Makes permanent requirements that local governments allow siting of certain emergency shelters, conditioned upon latest estimates of percentage of individuals experiencing homelessness. Awards attorney fees for certain appeals of emergency shelter application. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to update Oregon Structural Specialty Code to allow additional single-exit residential occupancies. Exempts certain affordable housing from Oregon Planned Community Act. Restricts local governments' ability to regulate condominium form of ownership. Requires cities or counties to accept funding letters to affordable housing developers as sufficient assurances needed to approve subdivision plat. Requires local governments to allow certain single room occupancies in residential zones. Amends definition of "needed housing" to include single room occupancies. Requires more cities to allow duplexes on certain lands zoned to allow single-family dwellings. Updates deadlines for compliance by affected cities and appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants for support. Provides process and form by which associations may amend declarations and bylaws of planned community or condominium to remove unlawfully discriminatory provisions. Extends until December 31, 2024, deadline by which associations must review declarations and bylaws. Allows Public Utility Commission to allow public utility to sell or convey real property for affordable housing. Requires Department of Human Services to provide financial support to nonprofits to provide affordable housing for low-income college students. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for regional housing coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing. Sunsets January 2, 2034. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to make grant to Network for Oregon Affordable Housing to provide low-interest loans to purchasers of homes with limited equity. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires department to report on use of loan fund to interim committee of Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2025, and September 15, 2027. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for housing. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Amends allowable purposes of Emergency Housing Account to include account moneys to be used for grants to assist companion animals of individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Declares emergency, effective on passage.