Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, Senate.
David Brock Smith
Sponsored
In committee2
Establishes the Behavioral Health and Deflection Committee within the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
Directs the Department of State Lands, in consultation with the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop a salmon credit pilot program to encourage the voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in the Coquille and Coos watershed basins.
Carried from the House
Became law1
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Allows the Early Learning Council to modify the priority given to families receiving temporary assistance for needy families for participation in the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Requires local governments to approve restoration or replacement of dwellings rendered uninhabitable under an alternative process that is not a land use decision.
Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for certain capital construction and municipal infrastructure and improvements.
Passed the Senate · 1
Modifies the offense of making a false report of child abuse.
Out of committee · 2
Creates a continuing allocation of lottery revenues to support specified horse racing events and facilities.
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 · 9
Establishes immunity from action for trespass for persons that corner cross on public land.
Requires the county clerk to notify the owner of real property when an instrument affecting the title to the property is presented for recordation unless presented by a financial institution, an insurer or an attorney, or an employee or agent of the professional person.
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.
Exempts certain projects for public works, primarily related to affordable housing, from the requirement to pay a prevailing rate of wage.
Authorizes a teacher to immediately remove from the classroom setting a student who repeatedly interferes with the teacher's ability to communicate effectively with the students in the class or with the ability of the students to learn.
Prohibits a syringe service program from operating a mobile or temporary location within 2,000 feet of a school or licensed child care facility.
Provides that a manufactured-protein food product that bears a label suggesting that the food product is made from meat is misbranded unless the food product label contains text disclosing that the food product is not made from meat.
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.
Modifies the tax credit allowed for semiconductor research.