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2025 Oregon legislative session
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| 2025 Oregon legislative session |
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| General information |
| Scheduled session start: January 21, 2025 Scheduled session end: June 27, 2025 |
| Leadership |
| Senate President Rob Wagner (D) House Speaker |
| Elections |
| Next Election: November 3, 2026 Last Election: November 5, 2024 |
| Previous legislative sessions |
| 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 |
| Other 2025 legislative sessions |
In 2025, the Oregon State Legislature was scheduled to convene on January 21 and adjourn on June 27.
The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won a 18-12 majority in the Senate and a 35-25 majority in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Democratic state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, Oregon was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.
Leadership in 2025
Oregon State Senate
- Senate president: Rob Wagner (D)
- Majority leader: Kayse Jama (D)
- Minority leader: Daniel Bonham (R)
Oregon House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House: Julie Fahey (D)
- Majority leader: Ben Bowman (D)
- Minority leader: Christine Drazan (R)
Partisan control in 2025
- See also: State government trifectas
Oregon was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.
Oregon was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.
The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the Oregon State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.
Oregon State Senate
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 18 | |
| Republican Party | 12 | |
| Total | 30 | |
Oregon House of Representatives
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 35 | |
| Republican Party | 25 | |
| Total | 60 | |
Regular session
The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.
Legislation trackers
- See also: Legislation Trackers
Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:
Standing legislative committees
A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 43 standing committees in Oregon's state government, including 11 joint legislative committees, 13 state Senate committees, and 19 state House committees.
Joint legislative committees
- Joint Committee on Semiconductors
- Joint Conduct Committee
- Joint Information Management and Technology Committee
- Joint Interstate 5 Bridge Committee
- Joint Legislative Administration Committee
- Joint Legislative Audits Committee
- Joint Legislative Counsel Committee
- Joint Legislative Policy and Research Committee
- Joint Tax Expenditures Committee
- Joint Transportation Committee
- Joint Ways and Means Committee
Senate committees
- Finance and Revenue Committee
- Housing and Development Committee
- Human Services, Mental Health and Recovery Committee
- Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation Committee
- Labor and Business Committee
- Natural Resources and Wildlife Recovery Committee
- Senate Conduct Committee
- Senate Education Committee
- Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Senate Health Care Committee
- Senate Redistricting Committee
- Senate Rules Committee
- Veterans and Emergency Preparedness Committee
House committees
- Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
- Behavioral Health Committee
- Business and Labor Committee
- Early Childhood Committee
- Economic Recovery and Prosperity Committee
- Gambling Regulation Committee
- General Government Committee
- House Conduct Committee
- House Education Committee
- House Energy and Environment Committee
- House Health Care Committee
- House Housing Committee
- House Redistricting Committee
- House Rules Committee
- Human Services Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Revenue Committee
- Veterans and Emergency Management Committee
- Water Committee
Legislatively referred constitutional amendments
In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.
The methods by which the Oregon Constitution can be amended:
- See also: Section 1, Article IV, and Article XII of the Oregon Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in Oregon
The Oregon Constitution lays out four different paths, in two different articles, for how to go about changing the state's constitution.
- The constitutional revision process is established in Section 2 of Article XVII.
- Section 1, Article IV, says that the people of the state can use an initiated constitutional amendment to put an amendment before voters.
- An initiated amendment must be proposed "by a petition signed by a number of qualified voters equal to eight percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the election at which a Governor was elected for a term of four years next preceding the filing of the petition."
- The petition must include the full text of the proposed amendment.
- The signatures must be filed "not less than four months before the election at which the proposed...amendment to the Constitution is to be voted upon."
- Article IV contains several restrictions on the initiative process such as Section 1b, which prohibits pay-per-signature.
- Section 1 of Article XVIII creates the procedures by which the Oregon State Legislature can use a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to put an amendment before voters.
- Amendments can be proposed in either house of the state legislature.
- To earn a spot on the ballot, a "majority of all the members elected to each of the two houses" must vote in favor of a proposed amendment.
- The Legislature can put any such referred amendments on a special election ballot.
- If more than one amendment is proposed by the legislature, they must be voted on separately.
- Section 1 of Article XVIII also states that a constitutional convention can only be held if "the law providing for such convention shall first be approved by the people on a referendum vote at a regular general election."
- The constitution does not define how such a referendum is to be put before voters.
- Possible ways might include a citizen-initiated question or a vote of the legislature.
Historical partisan control
The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of Oregon.
Oregon Party Control: 1992-2025
Seventeen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Historical Senate control
Democrats won control of the Oregon State Senate in 2004. In 2024, they won a 18-12 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Oregon Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Oregon State Senate election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 16 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 |
| Republicans | 14 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Historical House control
Democrats won control of the Oregon House of Representatives in 2012. In 2024, they won a 36-24 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Oregon House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Oregon House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 28 | 26 | 29 | 25 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 31 | 36 | 30 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 36 |
| Republicans | 32 | 34 | 31 | 34 | 33 | 35 | 33 | 29 | 24 | 30 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 24 |
Analysis
Adopted legislation, 2014-2024
- See also: The State Legislative Decade - Oregon
In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.
See also
| Elections | Oregon State Government | State Legislatures | State Politics |
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