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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3065
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act makes cities adopt local rental standards, which may include rent control.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires each city with a population of less than 200,000 to establish local standards to promote
housing stability no later than July 1, 2027. Allows adoption of rent control through local standards
adopted under this Act or by cities with a population of 200,000 or greater. Requires review of local
standards at least every 10 years.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to local standards to promote housing stability; creating new provisions; amending ORS
91.225; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 91.225 and section 2 of this 2025 Act are added to and made a part of
ORS chapter 90.
SECTION 2.(1) Each city with a population of less than 200,000 shall establish, by ordi-
nance or resolution, local standards to promote housing stability applicable to rental agree-
ments within the jurisdiction of the city. The local standards must include:
(a) Health and safety standards; and
(b) Provisions to enforce the local standards, including by publishing the name of a
landlord or tenant found to be in violation of one or more local standards in a newspaper of
general circulation in the city.
(2) The local standards established under this section must include at least three tiers
of application, including separate tiers for landlords that own or manage:
(a) Ten or fewer dwelling units;
(b) Manufactured dwelling parks; and
(c) All other amounts and types of dwelling units.
(3) A city that establishes local standards under this section:
(a) May include within the ordinance or resolution limits on the maximum rent that may
be charged, or the maximum percentage by which rent may be increased, for the rental of
a dwelling unit located within the jurisdiction of the city.
(b) Shall consult with an advisory group when establishing local standards under this
section. The advisory group shall consist of landlords and tenants from a variety of back-
grounds who reside within the jurisdiction of the city.
(c) At least once every 10 years, shall review the local standards established under this
section and shall adopt or amend ordinances or resolutions as the city determines is appro-
priate to promote housing stability.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2323 HB3065
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SECTION 3. Each city with a population of less than 200,000 shall establish local stan-
dards to promote housing stability under section 2 of this 2025 Act no later than July 1, 2027.
SECTION 4. ORS 91.225 is amended to read:
91.225. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that there is a social and economic need to insure an
adequate supply of affordable housing for Oregonians. [The Legislative Assembly also finds that the
imposition of general restrictions on housing rents will disrupt an orderly housing market, increase
deferred maintenance of existing housing stock, lead to abandonment of existing rental units and create
a property tax shift from rental-owned to owner-occupied housing.] Therefore, the Legislative Assem-
bly declares that the imposition of rent control on housing in the State of Oregon is a matter of
statewideconcern.
(2) [Except as provided in subsections (3) to (5) of this section,] A city with a population of less
than 200,000 or county [shall not enact any] may only enact or enforce an ordinance or resolution
[which] that controls the rent that may be charged for the rental of any dwelling unit as provided
in this section or section 2 of this 2025 Act.
(3) [This section does not impair the right of any state agency, city, county or urban renewal agency
as defined by ORS 457.035 to] A city or county may reserve to itself the right to approve rent in-
creases, establish base rents or establish limitations on rents on any residential property for which
it has entered into a contract under which certain benefits are applied to the property for the ex-
pressed purpose of providing reduced rents for low income tenants. Such benefits include, but are
not limited to, property tax exemptions, long-term financing, rent subsidies, code enforcement pro-
cedures and zoning density bonuses.
(4) [Cities and counties are not prohibited from including in condominium conversion ordinances
a requirement] A city or county may require that, during the notification period specified in ORS
100.305, the owner or developer may not raise the rents of any affected tenant except by an amount
established by ordinance that does not exceed the limit imposed by ORS 90.493.
(5) [Cities, counties and state agencies] A city or county may impose temporary rent controls
when a natural or man-made disaster that materially eliminates a significant portion of the rental
housing supply occurs, but must remove the controls when the rental housing supply is restored to
substantially normal levels.
[(6) As used in this section, “dwelling unit” and “rent” have the meaning given those terms in ORS
90.100.]
[(7) This section is applicable throughout this state and in all cities and counties therein. The
electors or the governing body of a city or county shall not enact, and the governing body shall not
enforce, any ordinance, resolution or other regulation that is inconsistent with this section.]
SECTION 5. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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