Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Matt Bunch
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.
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 residential landlords of multifamily housing to convert premises to nonsmoking for existing tenants upon 180 days' written notice.
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.
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 Oregon CHIPS Fund grants and loans to businesses that are eligible for federal semiconductor financial assistance under the CHIPS Act but have not applied for it.
Increases the biennial lottery allocation made for the outdoor school program.
Requires certain health insurers to cover fertility services and treatments.
In committee · 6
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.
Provides that an operator may require an adult person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
Creates Oregon corporate excise and income tax subtractions for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire.
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.
Increases sentencing guidelines for felony fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.