Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, Senate.
Lew Frederick
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs the State Board of Education to allow play-based learning to be considered instructional time for students in kindergarten through grade five.
Passed the Senate1
Requires an electric utility to disclose to its customers the costs of storing nuclear waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity.
Carried from the House
Became law4
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.
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.
Requires the compilation of data about students who are regular attenders or who are chronically absent.
Modifies the requirements for Medicaid supplemental reimbursements paid to emergency medical services providers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Authorizes the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to enter into agreements to own and oversee the operations of the Moda Center in the City of Portland.
Allows for the provision of epinephrine in schools by methods other than injections.
Requires local governments to approve restoration or replacement of dwellings rendered uninhabitable under an alternative process that is not a land use decision.
Increases snowmobile registration fees.
Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to fund mixed income housing.
Requires hospitals to have policies and procedures in place that address how the hospital will respond if a law enforcement authority arrives at the hospital and to designate which areas of the hospital are not open to the public.
Adds new requirements for obtaining an initial license to operate and maintain a hospice program.
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to conform the state building code to accessibility requirements under the Fair Housing Act.
Prohibits public bodies from disclosing personally identifiable information to a data broker unless the data broker attests that the information will not be sold or transferred to any entity that will use it to enforce federal immigration law.
Prohibits public bodies from assisting the federal government with privatization of certain federally owned lands.
Requires the Department of Justice to consult with the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement when the department develops, reviews or updates model policies intended to limit immigration enforcement at public facilities.
Requires a professional licensing board to publish specified guidance regarding licensure and ensure certain staff receive culturally responsive training not later than January 1, 2028.
Requires certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for preventive health services in accordance with federal rules in effect on June 30, 2025, and immunizations recommended by the Public Health Officer in the future.
Out of committee · 1
Requires school districts to offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of income.
In committee · 8
Allows city and county services for which net local transient lodging tax revenue may be used to be provided either directly by the city or county or indirectly by a special district.
Allows counties with a population density of less than 30 people per square mile to rezone up to 50 acres to be divided and developed for residential dwellings of at least five units per acre.
Prohibits an online news aggregating platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
Requires each electric company to develop a distributed power plant program for the procurement of grid services to be provided by distributed energy resources.
Establishes the Behavioral Health and Deflection Committee within the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
Modifies the tax credit allowed for semiconductor research.
Requires each electric company to develop an inclusive utility investment program to provide financing for customers' energy efficiency upgrades or renewable energy projects.
Requires lobbyists to provide a notice to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission regarding certain information about the lobbyist's representation of certain clients, the lobbyist's compensation and the lobbyist's new or different position on legislative action or administrative action.