Oregon House Bill 3182

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-4)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-17 - Referred to Higher Education and Workforce Development with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
Pending: House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Tells the HECC to give money to fund basic needs for higher learning students. Creates a task force on student housing to study student housing needs. Directs the HECC to provide grants to certain organizations that help low-income college students with housing. Declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.4). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming. Appropriates moneys to the commission to establish the program and award grants for basic needs programming. Sunsets the grant program on January 2, 2027. Establishes the Task Force on Student Housing to review and make recommendations on policy changes regarding barriers that students in higher education face in accessing affordable housing. Sunsets the task force on January 2, 2027. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to nonprofit organizations that provide affordable housing support to low-income students in higher education in this state. Appropriates moneys to the commission for purposes of awarding the grants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Relating to aid to students in higher education; declaring an emergency.

Rep. Nathan Sosa [D]	Rep. Mark Owens [R]	Sen. Lew Frederick [D]	Rep. Zach Hudson [D]
Rep. Bobby Levy [R]	Rep. Susan McLain [D]	Rep. Courtney Neron [D]	Rep. Robert Nosse [D]
Rep. Ricki Ruiz [D]	Sen. Wlnsvey Campos [D]	Sen. Suzanne Weber [R]	Rep. Tom Andersen [D]
Rep. Lisa Fragala [D]	Rep. Mark Gamba [D]	Rep. John Lively [D]	Rep. Sarah Finger McDonald [D]
Rep. Emily McIntire [R]	Rep. Lesly Munoz [D]	Rep. Hai Pham [D]	Sen. Anthony Broadman [D]
Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin [D]	Sen. Chris Gorsek [D]	Sen. Mark Meek [D]	Sen. Deb Patterson [D]
Sen. Kathleen Taylor [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-17	House	Referred to Higher Education and Workforce Development with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13	House	First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB3182
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3182/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/84151