2026 Oregon legislative session

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2026 Oregon legislative session
General information
Scheduled session start:    Feb. 2, 2026 Scheduled session end:    March 9, 2026
Leadership
Senate President Rob Wagner (D) House Speaker Julie Fahey (D) Majority Leader Senate: Kayse Jama (D) House: Ben Bowman (D) Minority Leader Senate: Bruce Starr (R) House: Lucetta Elmer (R)
Elections
Next Election:    November 3, 2026 Last Election:    November 5, 2024
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In 2026, the Oregon State Legislature is scheduled to convene on February 2, 2026, and adjourn on March 9, 2026.

The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won an 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 2026 session, Oregon was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.

At the beginning of the 2026 legislative session:

Democrats held a majority in the Oregon state House and state Senate.

Oregon was one of 16 Democratic state government trifectas.

Oregon's governor was Democrat Tina Kotek.

Leadership in 2026

See also: Leadership positions in state legislatures

Oregon State Senate

• Senate president: Rob Wagner (D)
• Majority leader: Kayse Jama (D)
• Minority leader: Bruce Starr (R)

Oregon House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House: Julie Fahey (D)
• Majority leader: Ben Bowman (D)
• Minority leader: Lucetta Elmer (R)

Partisan control in 2026

See also: State government trifectas

Oregon was one of 16 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2026 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 2026 legislative session.

Oregon State Senate

Partisan composition, Oregon State Senate

As of February 2026
Party	Members
Democratic	18
Republican	12
Other	0
Vacancies	0
Total	30

Oregon House of Representatives

Partisan composition, Oregon House of Representatives

As of February 2026
Party	Members
Democratic	37
Republican	23
Other	0
Vacancies	0
Total	60

Regular session

The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2026 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 2026. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

Standing legislative committees

See also: Standing committee and List of committees in Oregon state government

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 2026 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

Cover of the 1857 Oregon Constitution

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: 1992-2026
Eighteen 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	26
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	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	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	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
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
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
Oregon State Senate elections, 2026 Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2026	Oregon State Legislature Oregon House of Representatives Oregon State Senate Governor of Oregon Oregon Supreme Court	State legislative elections, 2026 State legislative special elections, 2026 State legislative elections, 2024 State legislative elections, 2022	State government trifectas State government triplexes Veto overrides in state legislatures State executives State courts Ballot measures

External links

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• Oregon State Legislature homepage

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2026

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