Sen. Dick Anderson

] Provides that when offering a service with age restrictions, a private entity is allowed to swipe a driver license or identification card to verify a person's age, regardless of how old the person looks. Increases the amount a person may recover against an entity that swipes a driver license or identification card in violation of the law.

Allows the Housing and Community Services Department to use Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund moneys for factory-built housing. Requires the department to hire a contractor to support the factory-built housing industry. Requires the department to report on outcomes to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2027. Sunsets January 2, 2028. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Maddy summaryHB 3137 clarifies regulations for Oregon's real estate professionals by establishing clear definitions for key terms, including "managing principal broker" (a broker overseeing a business name). It defines terms like "branch office," "associated with," and "management of rental real estate" to standardize responsibilities for brokers, property managers, and their supervisors. The bill directly affects licensed real estate brokers, property managers, and their firms by specifying their roles and operational requirements under Oregon law. Enacted in June 2025, it takes effect January 1, 2026, replacing ambiguous prior language with defined standards.

] Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets. [ Prohibits a person from offering or selling an admission ticket to a retail purchaser unless the person discloses the initial price and total price of the admission ticket before requiring the purchaser to provide payment information. Requires the seller to make additional disclosures. ] Prohibits a person from willfully using, without prior authorization, an Internet domain name or subdomain name that names a venue, names an entertainment event or a person that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event or is substantially similar to the name of the venue, of the entertainment event or the person or entity that is scheduled to appear or perform at the entertainment event. Prohibits a person from publishing or causing another person to publish a website that has or uses text, images, graphics, a design or other material that is so substantially similar to the intellectual property of an operator or venue as to mislead a reasonable visitor to the website into believing that the website is affiliated with the operator or venue . [ Prohibits a reseller from selling or offering for resale an admission ticket unless the reseller has actual or constructive possession of the admission ticket and makes certain disclosures before completing the sale. ] Punishes violations of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.

] [ Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to establish a program to issue low-interest short-term loans for the construction of mixed income housing. ] Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to adopt rules for long-term financing of residential housing on or before January 1, 2027. Requires the department to report on recommendations for mixed income housing by November 15, 2025, and report on updates to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026. [ Establishes the Mixed Income Public Development Loan Fund to be continually appropriated to the department for those purposes. ] Reduces limitations on the mixed income housing that housing authorities may finance, develop, own, operate or manage. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

] Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault. Prospectively eliminates the statute of limitations for civil actions based on sexual assault or child sexual abuse. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Removes a requirement that a maximum of two real estate professionals may serve on a city or county planning commission for commissions with more than five members .

Establishes the Ocean Beach Fund. Directs that the moneys received from the state transient lodging tax in an amount equal to one percent of the tax collected at state recreation areas along the ocean shore be transferred to the fund. Directs the State Parks and Recreation Department to spend moneys from the fund for expenses of managing state recreation areas along the ocean shore. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Provides that constructing a child care facility within a project for affordable housing does not subject the project for affordable housing to prevailing wage requirements if the child care facility meets specified requirements. Provides that prevailing wage requirements do apply to the construction of a child care facility. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.