Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Ben Bowman
Sponsored
Became law2
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.
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.
Establishes the Emergency Medical Services Program Fund.
Modifies the crime of theft of services to include partial payments.
Prohibits a retailer from knowingly selling or offering for sale, and a retail platform operator from knowingly permitting a retailer to advertise or offer for sale, a child safety system that does not comply with federal standards or standards the Department of Transportation adopts by rule.
Authorizes the Oregon Ocean Science Trust to create and maintain a nonprofit organization.
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.
Provides that evidence of a party's or a witness's immigration status is not admissible as evidence in a civil proceeding.
Declares that this state does not want the amendments set forth in section 521 of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 to apply to consumer finance loans made in this state.
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.
Requires the director to be a veteran who has received a discharge or release under other than dishonorable conditions.
Designates March 4th of each year as HPV Awareness Day.
Directs school districts to adopt policies that provide for the immediate enrollment, school placement and provision of services to homeless students.
Modifies provisions regarding solemnization of marriage to permit deployed service members to be married remotely.
Requires the compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.
Passed the House · 2
Authorizes the Governor to direct state agencies to withhold moneys owed to the federal government if federal funds are being withheld from the state in contravention of a valid court order.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with the Department of Human Services and the Employment Department to submit an annual report that provides information about employers that employ 500 or more employees in this state and have employees who are medical assistance recipients.
Out of committee · 2
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the office of Enterprise Information Services.
In committee · 1
Makes certain semi-independent state agencies subject to certain provisions regarding the budget process and fiscal matters.