republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2024r1/sb-1537.md

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Bill	Relating to housing; prescribing an effective date.	Digest: 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).	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2024R1	SB 1537	Oregon SB 1537 (2024R1)	bill		enacted		8	27	4	2024-02-05T15:05:18+00:00	2024-04-18T20:27:43+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9b74da6d-aaf1-44bc-adcd-d3ef66975f07	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1537	9af6dfecea682d404d70a38a9f991a516b0c47c0a706fd3d1c45cb2a3d19d226	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 1537 (2024R1) — Relating to housing; prescribing an effective date.

Digest: 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).

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. JWM Amendment -A15 (committee substitute) — source
6. SHDEV Amendment -9 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Jama, Anderson. Passed. — 21–7 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 46–0 (pass) · legislature
• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Dexter, Gomberg. Passed. — 50–6 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-05T15:05:18+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-05T17:31:30+00:00 Referred to Housing and Development, then Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2024-02-08T16:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2024-02-13T16:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-02-16T23:05:34+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16T23:05:35+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. referral-committee
• 2024-02-24T15:34:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On Transportation and Economic Development. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27T21:03:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
• 2024-02-27T21:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-02-29T01:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-02-29T16:00:58+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-29T18:46:28+00:00 Rules suspended. Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-29T20:27:13+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Jama, Anderson. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-29T20:28:13+00:00 Knopp declared potential conflict of interest.
• 2024-02-29T20:29:13+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Boquist, Sollman.
• 2024-02-29T22:19:33+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-03-01T00:19:05+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01T23:23:48+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-04T19:42:08+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-03-04T20:44:00+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Dexter, Gomberg. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-04T20:43:00+00:00 Potential conflict(s) of interest declared by Nguyen D, Pham H.
• 2024-03-05T23:02:29+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-06T00:27:21+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-04T20:45:00+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Andersen, Yunker.
• 2024-04-17T22:50:53+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-04-18T20:24:36+00:00 Chapter 110, 2024 Laws.
• 2024-04-18T20:27:43+00:00 Effective date, June 6, 2024.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b74da6d-aaf1-44bc-adcd-d3ef66975f07. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).