Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Bobby Levy
Sponsored
Became law1
Revises the definition of "animal rescue entity."
In committee1
Appropriates moneys to the State Forestry Department to offset landowners' costs of fire protection provided by the department.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.
Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.
Modifies provisions relating to late payment of seed production contracts and seed purchase contracts for agricultural seed and other seed.
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 a public utility, upon approval by the Public Utility Commission, to issue bonds and securitize debt for costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred by the public utility associated with a self-insurance or captive insurance program.
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.
Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.
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.
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.
Allows property tax special assessment for land under processing facilities.
Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to issue a license to operate a mobile pharmacy to a qualified applicant.
Requires the director to be a veteran who has received a discharge or release under other than dishonorable conditions.
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Designates March 4th of each year as HPV Awareness Day.
Provides that, in lieu of making a first appearance for a traffic violation citation, the person who is the previous owner of a vehicle may notify the court that the person has transferred interest in the vehicle and is not liable for the citation.
Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.
Requires producers of batteries or battery-containing products to join a battery producer responsibility organization and implement a battery producer responsibility program for the collection and recycling of batteries.
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.
Allows counties to approve farm stores as nonfarm use on lands zoned for farm use.
Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence, even though the declarant is available as a witness.
Out of committee · 9
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.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the office of Enterprise Information Services.
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.
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.
Increases the biennial lottery allocation made for the outdoor school program.
Increases quarterly distributions to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for deposit into the Illegal Marijuana Market Enforcement Grant Program Fund from $750,000 to $3 million.
Requires certain health insurers to cover fertility services and treatments.
In committee · 6
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.
Repeals Enrolled Senate Bill 916 (2025), which authorized unemployment insurance benefits for individuals who are unemployed due to a strike.