Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Mark Owens
Sponsored
Out of committee2
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
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.
Exempts sales to purchasers with facilities totaling more than one million square feet from a prohibition on sales of certain fluorescent lamps until January 1, 2030.
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 property tax special assessment for land under processing facilities.
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.
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.
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 · 4
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.
Makes changes to the highway worker photo radar laws.
Increases the biennial lottery allocation made for the outdoor school program.
In committee · 7
Limits to 25 the number of legislative measures that a member of the Legislative Assembly may ask the Legislative Counsel to prepare for a regular session of the Legislative Assembly that begins in an odd-numbered year.
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.