Became law as Chapter 289, Oregon Laws 2025, signed June 9, 2025, 147 days after it was filed.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 470
Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
<b>Digest: Lets a person sue if someone makes, stores or shows a visual image or recording of the person while the person is in private space in a hotel or like place. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).</b> [<i>Digest: Tells a person that offers, in return for money, a space for others to stay for a short time, and any other person that assists the person to offer the space, that they may not make, store, show or give to another person an audio or video record of a person that stays in the space. Allows the person that stays in the space to sue for violations of the law. Takes effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4).</i>] [<i>Prohibits a transient lodging provider and a transient lodging intermediary from making, storing, transmitting or transferring an audio or video recording of an occupant of transient lodging in any space within the transient lodging in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishes violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.</i>] <b>Provides a cause of action for invasion of personal privacy against a transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's capturing, making, storing, transferring, transmitting or broadcasting, or intentionally permitting another person to make, store, transfer, transmit or broadcast, a visual image or recording or audio of a plaintiff while the plaintiff occupies a private space within transient lodging that is under the transient lodging provider's or transient lodging intermediary's ownership or control.</b> Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
1 co-sponsor
In the House of Representatives
Its course
January 13 to June 20, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action24 actions on 22 days
In the SenateJan 13 to Mar 2571 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
JudiciaryJan 17 to Mar 1961 days
In the House of RepresentativesMar 25 to May 2965 days
Waiting for a committeeMar 25 to Apr 17 days
JudiciaryApr 1 to May 2150 days
With the GovernorMay 29 to Jun 911 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Senate, third reading29–0
Passed · Mar 25 · 1 present
House of Representatives, third reading49–0
Passed · May 29 · 10 present
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
Senate committee amendmentAdopted
Adopted Mar 19
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Jan 13 – Mar 25
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Judiciary
- Feb 3Heard in Judiciary
- Mar 12Heard in Judiciary
- Mar 19Judiciary recommended it as amended
- Mar 20Read a second time
- Mar 25Passed the Senate, 29 to 0
In the House of Representatives Mar 27 – May 29
- Mar 27Arrived in the House of Representatives
- Apr 1Sent to Judiciary
- Apr 24Heard in Judiciary
- May 15Heard in Judiciary
- May 21Judiciary recommended it
- May 22Read a second time
- May 29Passed the House of Representatives, 49 to 0
To the Governor May 30 – Jun 20
- May 30Signed in the Senate
- Jun 2Signed in the House of Representatives
- Jun 9Signed by the Governor
- Jun 20Became chapter 289 of Oregon Laws 2025
All 24 actions, as published
- Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
- Jan 17Referred to Judiciary.Senate
- Feb 3Public Hearing held.Senate
- Mar 12Work Session held.Senate
- Mar 19Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.)Senate
- Mar 20Second reading.Senate
- Mar 24Carried over to 03-25 by unanimous consent.Senate
- Mar 25Third reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed.Senate
- Mar 25Gelser Blouin, excused, granted unanimous consent to vote aye.Senate
- Mar 27First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Apr 1Referred to Judiciary.House of Representatives
- Apr 24Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- May 15Work Session held.House of Representatives
- May 21Recommendation: Do pass.House of Representatives
- May 22Second reading.House of Representatives
- May 23Carried over to May 27, 2025 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.House of Representatives
- May 27Rules suspended. Carried over to May 28, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
- May 28Rules suspended. Carried over to May 29, 2025 Calendar.House of Representatives
- May 29Third reading. Carried by Chotzen. Passed.House of Representatives
- May 30President signed.Senate
- Jun 2Speaker signed.House of Representatives
- Jun 9Governor signed.Senate
- Jun 20Chapter 289, 2025 Laws.Senate
- Jun 20Effective on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.Senate