What's happening in the
Oregon Legislature?

Tracking real-time actions in the Oregon House and Senate.

SB 1501

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Authorizes the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to enter into agreements to own and oversee the operations of the Moda Center in the City of Portland.

SB 1510

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Updates the terminology used to describe certain income earned by multinational corporations to reflect a change in the term used in federal law.

SB 1513

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Delays until July 1, 2027, the requirement that a real estate team change the terms used in the team name.

SB 1516

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Provides that standing pretrial release orders do not affect the authority of a magistrate to consider the primary and secondary release criteria when making a release decision.

SB 1519

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Changes the formula for determining permanent and temporary total disability compensation.

SB 1521

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Prohibits cities and counties within the Portland MSA from enforcing requirements that developers provide affordable units in multiunit dwellings unless the city or county first calculates the developers' average expected losses due to providing affordable housing and the city or county offsets those losses.

SB 1525

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Establishes the Blue Economy Task Force.

SB 1533

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Modifies the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights and the Oregon Foster Children's Sibling Bill of Rights.

SB 1535

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Allows the Early Learning Council to modify the priority given to families receiving temporary assistance for needy families for participation in the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.

SB 1539

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Allows an individual to verify whether cattle are pregnant without holding a valid license issued by the Oregon State Veterinary Medical Examining Board under certain circumstances.

SB 1544

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Makes changes to laws regulating dismantlers.

SB 1546

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires operators of artificial intelligence companions and artificial intelligence companion platforms to provide notice to users that the users are interacting with artificial output if a reasonable person that interacts with the artificial intelligence companion or artificial intelligence companion platform would believe that the person was interacting with a natural person.

SB 1551

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Invalidates deed restrictions and planned community governing documents prohibiting the replacement of nonfire-hardened building materials or installation of fire-hardened building materials on residential properties.

SB 1556

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Consolidates statutes governing the representation of parties before the magistrate division of the Oregon Tax Court.

SB 1557

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Modifies provisions relating to contempt proceedings.

SB 1561

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires local governments to approve restoration or replacement of dwellings rendered uninhabitable under an alternative process that is not a land use decision.

SB 1565

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Increases snowmobile registration fees.

SB 1567

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to fund mixed income housing.

SB 1568

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Establishes coverage levels for doula services in the state medical assistance program and for health benefit plans that provide coverage for pregnancy and childbirth expenses.

SB 1570

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires hospitals to have policies and procedures in place that address how the hospital will respond if a law enforcement authority arrives at the hospital and to designate which areas of the hospital are not open to the public.

SB 1571

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Adds a definition of "nicotine" and expands the definition of "tobacco products."

SB 1576

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to conform the state building code to accessibility requirements under the Fair Housing Act.

SB 1587

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Prohibits public bodies from disclosing personally identifiable information to a data broker unless the data broker attests that the information will not be sold or transferred to any entity that will use it to enforce federal immigration law.

SB 1590

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Prohibits public bodies from assisting the federal government with privatization of certain federally owned lands.

SB 1594

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires the Department of Justice to consult with the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement when the department develops, reviews or updates model policies intended to limit immigration enforcement at public facilities.

SB 1595

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires a professional licensing board to publish specified guidance regarding licensure and ensure certain staff receive culturally responsive training not later than January 1, 2028.

SB 1598

Governor signed. (S)

Measure Action

Requires certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for preventive health services in accordance with federal rules in effect on June 30, 2025, and immunizations recommended by the Public Health Officer in the future.

HB 4004

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Provides that additional taxes otherwise imposed upon disqualification of land from certain forestland special assessment programs may not be collected if the disqualification is due to the suspension of reforestation requirements as a result of insects or disease.

HB 4027

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Amends the Workers' Benefit Fund assessment statute to direct the Department of Consumer and Business Services to set an additional assessment rate in order to deposit in a new BOLI Expenses Fund at least the greater of a minimum dollar amount or 12 months of projected expenses to fund the duties of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, subject to a cap on the costs of new positions, to reimburse certain related expenses of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and to create and maintain a 12-month reserve in the new fund.

HB 4035

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Expands eligibility for cities and Metro to amend their urban growth boundaries under a temporary program.

HB 4039

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.

HB 4043

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance renovation or expansion of courthouses.

HB 4045

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires a social media platform to respond to a search warrant within 72 hours of service, and all other communications providers to respond within five business days of service, when the warrant pertains to an investigation of stalking or a crime constituting domestic violence.

HB 4047

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.

HB 4052

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.

HB 4053

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Establishes the Emergency Medical Services Program Fund.

HB 4060

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Exempts sales to purchasers with facilities totaling more than one million square feet from a prohibition on sales of certain fluorescent lamps until January 1, 2030.

HB 4061

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to set up a program for micro-enterprise tariff adjustment grants to small businesses for costs increased by federal tariffs.

HB 4062

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Director of the Oregon Business Development Department to evaluate the programs administered by the department and provide recommendations for streamlining them.

HB 4065

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Modifies provisions relating to late payment of seed production contracts and seed purchase contracts for agricultural seed and other seed.

HB 4066

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Prohibits the student member of the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors from participating in any discussions or action by the board or attending any executive session of the board involving collective bargaining issues that affect students.

HB 4069

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires a behavioral health employer to implement a written safety policy or plan for the physical safety of individuals working for the behavioral health employer.

HB 4070

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment.

HB 4072

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Excludes specified periods of time from the time period within which a person released from custody must be arraigned.

HB 4076

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that reasons justify why the state policy in applicable statewide planning goals should not apply to a proposed energy facility if the council finds that the proposed energy facility will deliver electricity to the electric grid using an existing energy facility's surplus interconnection and does not require associated transmission lines more than two miles from the existing energy facility.

HB 4077

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Authorizes a public utility, upon approval by the Public Utility Commission, to issue bonds and securitize debt for costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred by the public utility associated with a self-insurance or captive insurance program.

HB 4079

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs school district boards and governing bodies of institutions of higher education to adopt policies that address how the school district or the institution of higher education will respond when a federal immigration authority enters school property or a campus.

HB 4082

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Adds to a temporary UGB addition program an option for each city or Metro to also add to its urban growth boundary a site for manufactured dwellings, prefabricated structures or manufactured dwelling parks, or for housing that is predominantly for older persons and affordable for households with incomes not more than 120 percent of area median income.

HB 4084

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Establishes the Joint Permitting Council.

HB 4086

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.

HB 4088

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Declares this state's policy to protect engagement in certain activities relating to reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment.

HB 4089

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Modifies the crime of theft of services to include partial payments.

HB 4100

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires owners or operators of bulk oils or liquid fuels terminals to obtain a certificate of financial responsibility from the Department of Environmental Quality.

HB 4102

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.

HB 4107

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires an urgent care center to make publicly available specified information about the urgent care center, offer specified services and, except in certain circumstances, have at least one licensed health care provider on site during the hours of operation.

HB 4111

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Provides that evidence of a party's or a witness's immigration status is not admissible as evidence in a civil proceeding.

HB 4114

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Creates a civil cause of action against certain individuals who under color of law enter certain property without a warrant or an exception to the warrant requirement.

HB 4115

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Provides that a criminal records check on certain caregivers shall last for three years, subject to exceptions.

HB 4120

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Allows residential landlords of multifamily housing to convert premises to nonsmoking for existing tenants upon 180 days' written notice.

HB 4123

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information.

HB 4124

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a study of the condition of Oregon's post-secondary education system and to develop detailed recommendations for the design, implementation and operation of a viable and superior institutional framework.

HB 4127

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt a payment mechanism to pay certain nonprofit reproductive health care providers that are not eligible to receive federal Medicaid funds for services provided to medical assistance recipients.

HB 4128

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Prohibits covered entities from purchasing, acquiring or offering to purchase or acquire a single-family residence unless the residence has been listed for sale to the general public for at least 90 days.

HB 4137

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Provides that, in lieu of making a first appearance for a traffic violation citation, the person who is the previous owner of a vehicle may notify the court that the person has transferred interest in the vehicle and is not liable for the citation.

HB 4138

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires law enforcement agencies to require officers to wear uniforms with specified identifying information.

HB 4140

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Modifies the crime of criminal mischief in the first degree by expanding the types of telecommunications entities whose property may be subject to ORS 164.365.

HB 4149

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs school districts to adopt policies that provide for the immediate enrollment, school placement and provision of services to homeless students.

HB 4154

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Requires the compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.

HB 4156

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Modifies the requirements for Medicaid supplemental reimbursements paid to emergency medical services providers.

HB 4157

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence, even though the declarant is available as a witness.

HB 4160

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Directs schools to have a cardiac emergency response plan as part of the procedures for responding to medical emergencies.

HB 4162

Governor signed. (H)

Measure Action

Repeals Ballot Measure 119 (2024) that requires certain licensees of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to enter into labor peace agreements with bona fide labor organizations representing the licensees' employees.