Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, Senate.
Jeff Golden
Sponsored
In committee2
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Invalidates deed restrictions and planned community governing documents prohibiting the replacement of nonfire-hardened building materials or installation of fire-hardened building materials on residential properties.
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.
Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for certain capital construction and municipal infrastructure and improvements.
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.
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 Senate · 1
Requires an electric utility to disclose to its customers the costs of storing nuclear waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity.
Out of committee · 1
Provides that an operator may require a person who engages in a sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release the operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
In committee · 3
Establishes immunity from action for trespass for persons that corner cross on public land.
Permits a person who will be 17 years of age on the date of a primary election and 18 years of age on the date of the general election to vote at the primary election for candidates of a major political party with which the person is affiliated.
Requires each electric company to develop a distributed power plant program for the procurement of grid services to be provided by distributed energy resources.