republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2021-regular-session/hb-2008.md

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Bill	Relating to affordable housing provided by religious organizations; and prescribing an effective date.	Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households. <b>Conditions tax exemption on property being subject to covenant to maintain affordability for not less than 60 years. Provides that default six-year sunset of tax expenditures does not apply to exemption. Requires initial claim to be filed with Department of Revenue and annual claims with county assessor thereafter.</b>	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2021 Regular Session	HB 2008	Oregon HB 2008 (2021 Regular Session)	bill		enacted	Tina Kotek	8	26	6	2021-02-09T18:27:16+00:00	2021-09-25T15:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3247efa0-873b-4ba3-a85c-1ae41d837a67	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/Overview/HB2008	2c8dbc7e32f130be4c16f39d7d59b464c49058a048ca1a8451d4c6c6acb40f28	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon HB 2008 (2021 Regular Session) — Relating to affordable housing provided by religious organizations; and prescribing an effective date.

Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households. Conditions tax exemption on property being subject to covenant to maintain affordability for not less than 60 years. Provides that default six-year sunset of tax expenditures does not apply to exemption. Requires initial claim to be filed with Department of Revenue and annual claims with county assessor thereafter.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. House Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
2. Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HHOUS Amendment -3 (committee substitute) — source
6. HREV Amendment -A6 (committee substitute) — source
7. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third reading. Carried by Burdick. Passed. — 24–4 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Speaker Kotek. Passed. — 54–0 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tina Kotek — primary (person)
• Andrea Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
• Anna Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Boomer Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Cedric Hayden — cosponsor (person)
• Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
• Dan Rayfield — cosponsor (person)
• David Brock Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Duane Stark — cosponsor (person)
• Greg Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Kropf — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Fahey — cosponsor (person)
• Khanh Pham — cosponsor (person)
• Lisa Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Owens — cosponsor (person)
• Maxine Dexter — cosponsor (person)
• Rachel Prusak — cosponsor (person)
• Rep Leif — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
• Ron Noble — cosponsor (person)
• Sheri Schouten — cosponsor (person)
• Susan McLain — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Knopp — cosponsor (person)
• Wlnsvey Campos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-09T18:27:16+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-17T01:11:58+00:00 Referred to Revenue. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22T23:17:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-02-24T17:30:28+00:00 Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Housing.
• 2021-02-24T17:31:51+00:00 Referred to Housing by order of Speaker. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T16:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-04-08T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-04-13T18:38:36+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Revenue. committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-13T18:39:59+00:00 Referred to Revenue by order of Speaker. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27T20:31:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-05-11T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-05-17T21:50:03+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-19T18:27:24+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2021-05-20T18:35:19+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Speaker Kotek. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-24T17:50:18+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-05-27T16:03:32+00:00 Referred to Finance and Revenue. referral-committee
• 2021-06-07T20:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2021-06-09T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2021-06-16T15:01:34+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill. committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-16T19:10:23+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2021-06-17T19:22:17+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Burdick. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-17T19:23:17+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Heard.
• 2021-06-22T16:26:27+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2021-06-25T23:24:04+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2021-07-14T19:16:00+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2021-09-25T15:00:00+00:00 Chapter 446, (2021 Laws): Effective date September 25, 2021.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3247efa0-873b-4ba3-a85c-1ae41d837a67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).