The committee is scheduled to act on the amended bill Tuesday, June 15.
Money is pending
More than $400 million awaits distribution to landlords from state and federal programs, including $222.5 million from President Joe Biden's pandemic recovery plan that Congress approved and Biden signed March 11. The largest share at $156.5 million went to the state, but Portland and the three metro area counties also got some of that money.
The Legislature itself approved a total of $200 million — $150 million for compensation of landlords and $50 million for tenants — at a Dec. 21 special session. Lawmakers did so as part of a second 6-month extension of an evictions moratorium that Brown declared last spring at the onset of the pandemic, and lawmakers enacted for six months in June 2020.