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Representative Ed Deal outlines bill to make state agencies inventory rules and lands to boost housing production
Summary
Rep. Ed Deal presented House Bill 3,943 to require executive branch agencies to review rules and state lands for barriers to housing production; the Housing Accountability and Production Office described related work and a statutory report due to the legislature in September 2026.
Salem, Ore. — Representative Ed Deal on April 30 presented House Bill 3,943 in an informational session before the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness, asking state agencies to inventory rules and state-owned land to identify changes that could promote housing production.
The bill would require executive-branch agencies to, within 60 days of the bill’s effective date, identify agency rules that may impede new housing, report whether rules could be amended or rescinded to ease regulatory burdens, evaluate state-owned land for housing potential and propose agency strategies to facilitate housing development. Deal said the measure is intended to align agency practices with Governor Kotek’s goal of 36,000 new housing units annually and to put state assets and rules to work for housing production.
Representative Ed Deal, the bill’s sponsor, described HB 3,943 as a…
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