OR HB3303

Oregon Business Development Department must study infrastructure financing tools to reduce infrastructure and housing costs, including changes to law, new state mechanisms, bonding authority, participatory loans for homeownership, and state financing models for large local projects

Study must analyze interest rates and fees for state and local bonds related to infrastructure and housing development, including average costs as a percentage of total project cost in 2023, broken down by infrastructure type

Report due to Legislative Assembly interim committees by September 15, 2025, and may include legislative recommendations

Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund for the 2025-2027 biennium to contract with an external entity for research services

Declared an emergency effective upon passage; study provisions repeal December 31, 2026