Committees · 2025 Regular Session
Housing and Development
Members
As the committee stood at the end of the term. Each name leads to the member's page.
Khanh PhamChair
Democrat · 23rd District
Dick AndersonVice-chair
Republican · 5th District
Democrat · 27th District
Republican · 29th District
Democrat · 10th District
Bills
Bills sent to the committee in the 2025 Regular Session.
Bills sent91
6% of the bills the Senate sent to committees
Reported out43%
39 of 91; 52 stopped in committee
Time in committee55 days
most between 42 and 77 days
Amendments offered0
committee amendments
In every session
Each session over its whole term. The 2026 is so far.
202616 bills
reported 75% · typically 11 days, most 7–11 · 0 amendments · 5 members
202591 bills
reported 43% · typically 55 days, most 42–77 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20248 bills
reported 75% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
202368 bills
reported 54% · typically 49 days, most 32–62 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20229 bills
reported 78% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
202155 bills
reported 73% · typically 40 days, most 27–64 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20204 bills
reported 100% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
Bills it was sent
Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2025 Regular Session, newest first.
91 bills
House Bill 2647 · Establishes the process and requirements by which the City of Monmouth may amend its urban growth boundary to add up to 75 acres and to remove up to 90 acres.
Sent May 2, 2025 · Reported out after 18 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3521 · Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.
Sent May 1, 2025 · Reported out after 21 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3545 · Establishes when homeowners and condominium association assessments accrue on property deeded to the county in the tax foreclosure process.
Sent April 23, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 65 days
House Bill 3746 · Reduces the statute of limitations for construction defect actions by a planned community or condominium.
Sent April 23, 2025 · Reported out after 42 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2658 · Prohibits a municipality from requiring in, or as a condition of obtaining, a construction permit to renovate or otherwise alter an existing building that the construction permit holder install a frontage improvement if the alteration does not increase the building's square footage or footprint, if the cost of the alteration does not exceed a specified amount and if existing or proposed uses for the building do not change the occupancy classification group that applied to the building.
Sent April 21, 2025 · Reported out after 49 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2964 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to award loans for the predevelopment costs of affordable housing.
Sent April 21, 2025 · Reported out after 37 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3054 · Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026.
Sent April 21, 2025 · Reported out after 42 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3921 · Approves City of Roseburg and Douglas County 2024 ordinances that provided for amendments to the city's urban growth boundary, the city boundaries and the city and county's comprehensive plan and land use regulations.
Sent April 21, 2025 · Reported out after 23 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3136 · Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city or county planning commission for commissions with more than five members.
Sent April 7, 2025 · Reported out after 51 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3522 · Allows an owner or landlord to evict a squatter.
Sent April 7, 2025 · Reported out after 45 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2134 · Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
Sent April 3, 2025 · Reported out after 34 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2698 · Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Sent April 3, 2025 · Reported out after 41 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3144 · Prohibits new recorded instruments or governing documents of a planned community from banning the siting of manufactured dwellings or prefabricated structures.
Sent April 1, 2025 · Reported out after 48 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1203 · Allows the division of a portion of tracts used as golf courses on lands zoned for exclusive farm use for the purpose of siting single-unit or middle housing.
Sent April 1, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 87 days
Senate Bill 1199 · Allows counties with a population density of less than 10 people per square mile to rezone up to 50 acres to be divided and developed for residential dwellings of at least five units per acre.
Sent March 24, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 95 days
House Bill 3505 · Provides that a local government may not impose or increase a system development charge for the installation of a National Fire Protection Association 13D residential fire sprinkler system or for the increase in capacity of the system's water meter over the capacity of the water meter that would otherwise be required.
Sent March 20, 2025 · Reported out after 46 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3378 · Requires residential landlords to offer a method of accessing the dwelling unit other than software on tenant-owned phones or other electronic devices for the dwelling to be considered habitable.
Sent March 13, 2025 · Reported out after 55 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 6 · Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services, a municipality, a building official or any other agency or official responsible for administering and enforcing the state building code to approve and issue, or disapprove and deny, any application for a building permit for middle housing or conventional single-family residential housing in a residential subdivision with more than six lots not later than 45 business days after the date on which the applicant submits a complete application.
Sent March 11, 2025 · Reported out after 35 days · did not pass the Senate
House Bill 3137 · Modifies laws related to regulation of real estate professionals.
Sent March 6, 2025 · Reported out after 76 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2347 · Authorizes the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide planning assistance for housing production to federally recognized Indian tribes.
Sent March 4, 2025 · Reported out after 51 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
71 more
Senate Bill 1103 · Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to establish a program to provide loans to cities and tribes to develop infrastructure to support housing in climate-friendly areas.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1129 · Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to amend its rules relating to urban reserves.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Reported out after 42 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1133 · Allows counties to approve the alteration, restoration or replacement of certain nonresidential structures on rural residential lands for use as an accessory dwelling unit.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1136 · Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt model ordinances by which a city outside of Metro with a population of less than 25,000 may add lands to its urban growth boundary.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1141 · Allows the use of dwellings for vacation occupancy on lands zoned for farm or forest uses.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1155 · Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a pilot program to assist pregnant persons and their immediate family members in attaining stable housing.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
House Bill 2356 · Adds lands to a metropolitan service district when those lands are within Metro's urban growth boundary and annexed by a city in Metro.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Reported out after 86 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3034 · Modifies the role of the Oregon Housing Stability Council in designing policy for Emergency Housing Account programs.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Reported out after 58 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3035 · Expands Housing and Community Services Department authority regarding homeownership housing projects and lending.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1071 · Directs the Land Conservation and Development Commission to approve amendments to the urban growth boundary submitted by the City of Coos Bay.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1079 · Appropriates moneys to the Housing Project Revolving Loan Fund.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1085 · Quarters the minimum acreage for farm, forest and rangeland lots or parcels.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1095 · Authorizes cities and counties to impose a fee on noncommercial residences that are vacant for more than 180 consecutive or cumulative days in a calendar year.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Reported out after 37 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1059 · Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study needed exemptions from building code standards for workforce housing in certain areas of the state.
Sent February 18, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 129 days
Senate Bill 940 · Allows development of certain accessory dwelling units, recreational vehicles or emergency shelters on farmland on which is sited certain nonfarm dwellings.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 984 · Allows battery-charged fences on properties not used as residences.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 436 · Provides that constructing a nonprofit child care facility within a project for affordable housing does not subject the project for affordable housing to prevailing wage requirements if the child care facility meets specified requirements.
Sent February 4, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 143 days
Senate Bill 973 · Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.
Sent February 4, 2025 · Reported out after 55 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 974 · Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 120 days of submission.
Sent February 4, 2025 · Reported out after 73 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 923 · Appropriates moneys for the purpose of seeding the capital campaign and expanding fundraising efforts for a multiuse recreational facility to serve the greater Roseburg and Douglas County communities.
Sent February 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 144 days
Senate Bill 958 · Allows cities or counties to designate lands outside the urban growth boundary for residential or light commercial use.
Sent January 30, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 148 days
Senate Bill 967 · Authorizes local governments to enter into agreements governing local improvements proposed for unincorporated areas within an urban growth boundary.
Sent January 30, 2025 · Reported out after 34 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 949 · Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Self Enhancement, Inc., to develop affordable housing.
Sent January 28, 2025 · Reported out after 65 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 941 · Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the supply of land to build homes and grow businesses and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 23, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 155 days
Senate Bill 878 · Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home.
Sent January 21, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 157 days
Senate Bill 898 · Authorizes certain cities with a demonstrated need for housing to add a project area to their urban growth boundary upon certain conditions.
Sent January 21, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 157 days
Senate Bill 31 · Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to support tenants of publicly supported housing when the housing's affordability restrictions are terminated.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 73 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 32 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to post information about publicly supported housing on the department's webpage.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 70 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 48 · Limits to within an urban growth boundary a dwelling developer's ability to apply updated land use regulations to pending application.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 90 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 49 · Adds two members to the Building Codes Structures Board and adds two professions that the board members must represent.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 82 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 50 · Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use certain moneys in the Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund set aside to purchase multifamily housing to convert to affordable housing.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 80 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 51 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to the Housing Development Center, Inc. to support affordable housing property management.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 82 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 52 · Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study affordable housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by August 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 90 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 53 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 54 · Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 58 · Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish and administer a pilot program to award grants to counties.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 77 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 59 · Allows specified production of food in planned communities by lot owners and their tenants.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 158 · Allows a landlord and a tenant to agree to a recurring charge in lieu of a security deposit.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 229 · Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified purposes.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 76 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 259 · Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the public use of lands and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 328 · Prohibits an animal shelter from destroying a dog or cat on the basis of a lack of space for housing the dog or cat.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 435 · Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the Housing Accountability and Production Office and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 438 · Allows the owner of property outside an urban growth boundary to site an additional dwelling on the property for occupancy by a relative of the owner.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 439 · Provides that constructing a child care facility within a project for affordable housing does not subject the project for affordable housing to prevailing wage requirements if the child care facility meets specified requirements.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 444 · 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 and to certain American National Standards Institute standards for housing accessibility.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 110 days · then passed the Senate, and not the House of Representatives
Senate Bill 462 · Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to establish an education course for land use planners for local governments, special districts and state agencies.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 464 · Requires local governments to approve alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings under an alternative process that is not a land use decision.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 495 · Exempts residential tenancies within 25 miles of the coastline from maximum limits on rent increases.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 496 · Repeals limits on the increases to residential rent that a landlord may charge.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 498 · Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for the purpose of serving as an accessory dwelling unit to a home newly constructed on rural residential lands.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 499 · Appropriates moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 501 · Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or maintain a business in or within 25 miles of a boundary of local government or special district and appeared before a decision maker in person at a hearing, if available.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 503 · Allows a recreational vehicle used to provide temporary security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 521 · Requires additional cities to develop urban reserves.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 522 · Authorizes counties to allow contiguous clustered nonresource dwellings on a clustered development tract in lieu of approval of individual nonresource dwellings on lands zoned for forest or farm use.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 525 · Amends expedited land division criteria and processes.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 534 · Allows a lender that, in a reverse mortgage, provides a lump sum in exchange for a claim upon the equity of a property to claim as the lender's equity, and receive as proceeds in a sale of the property, not more than the percentage of the total equity in the property to which the lump sum is equivalent on the date the lender provides the lump sum.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 571 · Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study road infrastructure as it relates to housing.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 586 · Allows a landlord to pay a tenant one month's rent to reduce from 90 to 60 days the termination notice period that a landlord must give the tenant when selling the dwelling unit to buyers who intend to reside in the unit.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 66 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 592 · Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study the formation of a new city in the Stafford triangle area in Clackamas County and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 594 · Prohibits landlords from terminating a tenancy based on certain causes unrelated to the tenant's fault during a school year if the tenant is a grade school student or teacher.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 600 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 601 · Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study affordable housing and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing no later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 616 · Prohibits a local government from conditioning the development or use of property for needed housing based on the retention of trees.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 643 · Allows landlords to terminate month-to-month residential tenancies without cause.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 645 · Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of violations of such laws.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 684 · Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 88 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 722 · Prohibits residential landlords from using certain software to set rents or occupancy rates.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 737 · Expands the radius for giving notices of proposed middle housing land division and requires additional content in the notices.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 814 · Modifies eligibility criteria for the long-term rental assistance program for certain individuals under 25 years of age.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 45 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 829 · Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a program to assist eligible entities in paying the costs of property insurance or liability insurance premiums for affordable housing, shelters and other facilities.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 88 days · then passed the Senate, and became law