New Oregon laws taking effect June 5, 2026

HB 4047 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.

HB 4053 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Emergency Medical Services Program Fund.

HB 4070 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment.

HB 4083 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to, no later than June 30, 2027, adopt a uniform process for credentialing behavioral health providers and select an existing electronic credentialing system.

HB 4115 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that a criminal records check on certain caregivers shall last for three years, subject to exceptions.

HB 4131 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to issue a license to operate a mobile pharmacy to a qualified applicant.

HB 4142 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana.

SB 1547 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Oregon Board of Psychology to issue a license to practice behavioral health promotion, prevention and brief intervention to a qualified applicant.

SB 1570 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

SB 1571 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Adds a definition of "nicotine" and expands the definition of "tobacco products."

HB 4037 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Adjusts certain terms of the revolving loan program for cities and counties to fund affordable housing projects.

HB 4082 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Adds to a temporary UGB addition program an option for each city or Metro to also add to its urban growth boundary a site for manufactured dwellings, prefabricated structures or manufactured dwelling parks, or for housing that is predominantly for older persons and affordable for households with incomes not more than 120 percent of area median income.

HB 4123 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information.

SB 1523 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "tenant portal" for the purposes of residential tenancies.

SB 1551 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

SB 1567 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to fund mixed income housing.

SB 1576 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

HB 4016 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires public contractors to demonstrate and maintain tax compliance, through a certification process, as a condition of the execution of a public contract.

HB 4052 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Creates a corporate excise tax credit for each of the first three years that a bank does business in this state.

HB 4134 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Increases the state transient lodging tax.

HB 4148 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Allows net local transient lodging tax revenue to be used for resiliency grants for small businesses in the restaurant and lodging industry.

SB 1507 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Updates the connection date to the federal Internal Revenue Code and other provisions of federal tax law.

SB 1510 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Updates the terminology used to describe certain income earned by multinational corporations to reflect a change in the term used in federal law.

SB 1556 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Consolidates statutes governing the representation of parties before the magistrate division of the Oregon Tax Court.

HB 4029 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires a solar energy contractor or person that installs a solar energy system to have a license appropriate for the scope of work the solar energy contractor or person will perform.

HB 4031 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Exempts an energy facility from needing a site certificate from the Energy Facility Siting Council if the energy facility produces power from a renewable energy source, qualifies for certain federal renewable energy tax credits and is placed in service on or before December 31, 2030, or a date allowed by exception and a local land use application for the facility is submitted on or before December 31, 2028.

HB 4076 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that reasons justify why the state policy in applicable statewide planning goals should not apply to a proposed energy facility if the council finds that the proposed energy facility will deliver electricity to the electric grid using an existing energy facility's surplus interconnection and does not require associated transmission lines more than two miles from the existing energy facility.

HB 4102 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.

HB 4024 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Prohibits a reseller or person affiliated with a reseller from offering for resale or engaging in a resale of an admission ticket unless the reseller or person affiliated with the reseller has actual or constructive possession of the admission ticket or explicit authorization in a written contract to obtain the admission ticket from an operator, a ticket seller or a person the operator or ticket seller authorized to purchase the admission ticket in an initial sale.

HB 4077 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

HB 4086 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of promoting industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon.

HB 4116 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Declares that this state does not want the amendments set forth in section 521 of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 to apply to consumer finance loans made in this state.

HB 4072 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Excludes specified periods of time from the time period within which a person released from custody must be arraigned.

HB 4157 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence, even though the declarant is available as a witness.

SB 1557 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies provisions relating to contempt proceedings.

HB 4020 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Requires certain agencies to specify the authority justifying the denial of a permit application and provide the applicant a guide on how to contest the denial.

HB 4021 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Modifies effective date and notice requirements for certain permanent rules adopted, amended or repealed by certain agencies.

HB 4084 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Joint Permitting Council.

HB 4004 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that additional taxes otherwise imposed upon disqualification of land from certain forestland special assessment programs may not be collected if the disqualification is due to the suspension of reforestation requirements as a result of insects or disease.

HB 4005 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Designates the first Saturday of October of each year through the end of the Sunday of the following weekend as Water Professionals Appreciation Week.

SB 1525 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Establishes the Blue Economy Task Force.

HB 4007 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Defines "powered micromobility device" for the vehicle code.

SB 1544 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Makes changes to laws regulating dismantlers.

SB 1565 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Increases snowmobile registration fees.

HB 4012 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Construction Contractors Board to consult and collaborate with the Bureau of Labor and Industries to carry out a targeted assessment initiative to observe and collect information regarding the use of services of unlicensed labor contractors and unlicensed construction labor contractors at construction job sites.

HB 4027 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Amends the Workers' Benefit Fund assessment statute to direct the Department of Consumer and Business Services to set an additional assessment rate in order to deposit in a new BOLI Expenses Fund at least the greater of a minimum dollar amount or 12 months of projected expenses to fund the duties of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, subject to a cap on the costs of new positions, to reimburse certain related expenses of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and to create and maintain a 12-month reserve in the new fund.

SB 1520 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.

HB 4111 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Provides that evidence of a party's or a witness's immigration status is not admissible as evidence in a civil proceeding.

SB 1587 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

HB 4025 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Allows an increase in the residential rates of a public utility to take effect from November 1 to March 31 for public utilities other than public utilities that provide electricity or natural gas services.

SB 1585 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Sets maximum matching fund requirements for state grants to small incorporated cities for certain capital construction and municipal infrastructure and improvements.

HB 4099 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

SB 1535 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

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.

SB 1502 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

Directs the Secretary of State to presession file a proposed legislative measure for consideration during the 2027 regular session of the Legislative Assembly that sets forth the recommendations of the secretary for changes to campaign finance limitations presently being implemented in this state.