HB 4044 — Creates the Office of Resilience and Emergency Management within the Department of Human Services.
Congress · introduced 2026-01-15
<b>Digest: The Act creates a new office in DHS to provide human services in emergencies. The Act creates new assistance programs for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act creates a new office in DHS to provide human services in emergencies. The Act creates grant programs for emergencies. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.2).</i>] Creates the Office of Resilience and Emergency Management within the Department of Human Services. Sets forth the powers and duties of the office. Establishes the Oregon Public Assistance Grant Program, administered by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, to issue grants to government units and certain nonprofit organizations to perform emergency-related work to protect public health, safety or property. Establishes the Oregon Individual Assistance [<i>Grant</i>] Program, administered by the Department of Human Services, to [<i>issue grants</i>]<b> provide assistance</b> to address critical emergency-related needs of individuals.<b> Appropriates moneys for the program.</b>
Latest action: — In House Committee
Sponsors
No sponsorships on file.
Action timeline
- · state_lower — First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
- · state_lower — Referred to Emergency Management and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
- · state_lower — Public Hearing held.
- · state_lower — Work Session held.
- · state_lower — Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
- · state_lower — Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
- · state_lower — In committee upon adjournment.
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Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no