Housing-Related Legislation in the 2026 Regular Session
This page is updated on a ~roughly daily basis as the 2026 legislative session progresses.
26 housing bills tracked: In House Committee (5) → In Senate Committee (5) → Signed into Law (16)
Most active sponsors: Lamar Wise (9), Lew Frederick (8), Tom Andersen (7), Mark Gamba (7), Lesly Muñoz (7)
Signed into Law
16 bills
| Bill | Status | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| HB 4035 Expands eligibility for cities and Metro to amend their urban growth boundaries under a temporary program. 99 testimonies · 2 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Pam Marsh |
| HB 4036 Establishes the Housing Opportunity, Longevity and Durability Fund to deposit Article XI-Q bonds to be used by the Housing and Community Services Department to preserve affordable housing at risk of loss. 36 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Pam Marsh |
| HB 4037 Adjusts certain terms of the revolving loan program for cities and counties to fund affordable housing projects. 24 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Pam Marsh |
| HB 4082 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. 39 testimonies · 2 articles |
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| HB 4108 Allows the City of Eugene to annex noncontiguous land upon receipt of a petition from all owners of the land that satisfies four eligibility criteria. 24 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Lisa Fragala, April Dobson, Darin Harbick +11 more |
| HB 4120 Allows residential landlords of multifamily housing to convert premises to nonsmoking for existing tenants upon 180 days' written notice. 47 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Darcey Edwards, Ricki Ruiz, Court Boice +18 more |
| HB 4123 Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information. 99 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Pam Marsh, Wlnsvey Campos, Khanh Pham +21 more |
| HB 4128 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. 18 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Ben Bowman, Lew Frederick, Dacia Grayber +24 more |
| HB 4149 Directs school districts to adopt policies that provide for the immediate enrollment, school placement and provision of services to homeless students. 32 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Emerson Levy, Pam Marsh, Ben Bowman +22 more |
| SB 1510 Updates the terminology used to describe certain income earned by multinational corporations to reflect a change in the term used in federal law. 157 testimonies · 0 articles |
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| SB 1521 Prohibits cities and counties within the Portland MSA from enforcing requirements that developers provide affordable units in multiunit dwellings unless the city or county first calculates the developers' average expected losses due to providing affordable housing and the city or county offsets those losses. 17 testimonies · 0 articles |
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| SB 1523 Defines "tenant portal" for the purposes of residential tenancies. 83 testimonies · 1 article |
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| SB 1551 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. 16 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Sara Gelser Blouin, Jeff Golden, Anthony Broadman +4 more |
| SB 1561 Requires local governments to approve restoration or replacement of dwellings rendered uninhabitable under an alternative process that is not a land use decision. 19 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Suzanne Weber, Boomer Wright, Christine Drazan +15 more |
| SB 1567 Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to fund mixed income housing. 17 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Khanh Pham, Dick Anderson, Mark Meek +26 more |
| SB 1576 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. 44 testimonies · 0 articles |
Chapter Number Assigned | Deb Patterson, Wlnsvey Campos, Travis Nelson +15 more |
In Senate Committee
5 bills
| Bill | Status | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| SB 1514 Repeals the statute enacted by House Bill 3115 (2021) that established objective reasonableness as a statewide standard, for city and county laws regulating the use of public property with respect to persons experiencing homelessness, as the basis for a cause of action for injunctive and declaratory relief to challenge such laws and as an affirmative defense in the prosecution of violations of such laws. · 0 articles |
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| SB 1522 Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing. 215 testimonies · 0 articles |
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| SB 1564 Adds specified lands to the City of Woodburn's urban growth boundary. 30 testimonies · 0 articles |
In Senate Committee | Kim Thatcher, Lesly Muñoz, Tom Andersen +1 more |
| SB 1566 Exempts certain projects for public works, primarily related to affordable housing, from the requirement to pay a prevailing rate of wage. 67 testimonies · 3 articles |
In Senate Committee | Dick Anderson, Vikki Breese-Iverson, David Brock Smith |
| SB 1578 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. 84 testimonies · 0 articles |
In Senate Committee | Todd Nash, Mark Owens, Alek Skarlatos +8 more |
In House Committee
5 bills
| Bill | Status | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| HB 4051 Creates a program for deferred loans to first-time home buyers in an amount not greater than the lesser of the closing costs on the purchase or one percent of the purchase price. · 0 articles |
In House Committee | E. Werner Reschke, Christine Drazan, Anna Scharf +1 more |
| HB 4064 Establishes when homeowners and condominium association assessments accrue on property deeded to the county in the tax foreclosure process. · 0 articles |
In House Committee | Cyrus Javadi |
| HB 4113 Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study housing development opportunities conditioned upon land conservation. 307 testimonies · 0 articles |
In House Committee | Ken Helm, Vikki Breese-Iverson, Emerson Levy +4 more |
| HB 4136 Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, a mortgage interest deduction for a residence other than the taxpayer's principal residence, unless the taxpayer sells the residence or actively markets the residence for sale. 112 testimonies · 0 articles |
In House Committee | Annessa Hartman, Jeff Golden, Courtney Neron Misslin +18 more |
| HB 4170 Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing. · 0 articles |
In House Committee |