Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
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Sponsored
In committee1
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Modifies the offense of making a false report of child abuse.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Revises the definition of "animal rescue entity."
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.
Requires the State Treasurer to use up to $44 million from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to guarantee a loan made to a rural hospital for financial stabilization.
Authorizes the Oregon Ocean Science Trust to create and maintain a nonprofit organization.
Establishes the Task Force on Responding to Veterans in Crisis and directs the task force to submit a report to the interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management and veterans no later than September 15, 2026.
Allows the City of Eugene to annex noncontiguous land upon receipt of a petition from all owners of the land that satisfies four eligibility criteria.
Allows residential landlords of multifamily housing to convert premises to nonsmoking for existing tenants upon 180 days' written notice.
Creates authority to coordinate emergency management.
Designates March 4th of each year as HPV Awareness Day.
Increases the penalties for the crime of initiating a false report when a person intentionally causes an enhanced law enforcement response and recklessly causes serious physical injury or death as a result of the response.
Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence, even though the declarant is available as a witness.
Passed the House · 1
Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
Out of committee · 5
Directs the State Department of Energy, subject to the availability of funding, to conduct a study on nuclear energy, including advanced nuclear reactors.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Authorizes the Water Resources Commission to encourage and approve voluntary agreements between ground water users in the Greater Harney Valley Groundwater Area of Concern to achieve reasonably stable ground water levels.
Directs the State Forester to determine the available state forestland, establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and manage available state forestland.
Requires certain health insurers to cover fertility services and treatments.
In committee · 8
Creates a program for deferred loans to first-time home buyers in an amount not greater than the lesser of the closing costs on the purchase or one percent of the purchase price.
Appropriates moneys to the State Forestry Department to offset landowners' costs of fire protection provided by the department.
Allows a person to title and register a Kei truck in Oregon.
Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire.
Increases sentencing guidelines for felony fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
Repeals Enrolled Senate Bill 916 (2025), which authorized unemployment insurance benefits for individuals who are unemployed due to a strike.
Allows an attending physician to provide ibogaine to a patient for the patient's consumption to treat certain disorders.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study housing development opportunities conditioned upon land conservation.