---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to affordable development."
description: "<i>Requires petitioners to pay costs and attorney fees, including on appeal, to prevailing intervening developers of affordable developments that were approved by local government.</i>]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Oregon SB 8 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dallas Heard", "Peter Courtney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-19T17:36:52+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-10T16:12:23+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45771e72-71f3-475f-a005-d13903464d3d"
source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/SB8"
source_hash: "79c07f0ff915a12495f9b45837d67eb288611fbceb7bfeab8d76f3f2277a1c7f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
---

# Oregon SB 8 (2019 Regular Session) — Relating to affordable development.

<i>Requires petitioners to pay costs and attorney fees, including on appeal, to prevailing intervening developers of affordable developments that were approved by local government.</i>]

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB8/Introduced)
2. **Senate Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB8/Senate Amendments to Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB8/A-Engrossed)
4. **SHOUS Amendment -2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/15076)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB8/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Sanchez. Passed. — **58–0** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by President Courtney. Passed. — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dallas Heard — primary (person)
- Peter Courtney — primary (person)
- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-19T17:36:52+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20T21:21:45+00:00** Referred to Housing, then Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25T23:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2019-04-08T22:02:00+00:00** Public Hearing and Work Session held.
- **2019-04-15T20:38:26+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and subsequent referral to Judiciary be rescinded. (Printed A-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-15T20:39:49+00:00** Subsequent referral rescinded by order of the President.
- **2019-04-16T17:06:47+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17T18:55:35+00:00** Third reading. Carried by President Courtney. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18T16:14:52+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22T18:17:58+00:00** Referred to Human Services and Housing. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29T20:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2019-05-07T00:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-05-10T19:57:12+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13T19:10:45+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-14T19:29:10+00:00** Carried over to May 15, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-15T19:27:33+00:00** Carried over to May 16, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-16T18:33:40+00:00** Carried over to May 17, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-17T18:57:34+00:00** Carried over to May 20, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-20T19:29:22+00:00** Carried over to May 21, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-21T19:06:09+00:00** Carried over to May 22, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-23T03:28:37+00:00** Carried over to May 23, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-23T18:18:37+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Sanchez. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-28T20:46:10+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-05-29T00:53:27+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-06-04T22:07:40+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10T16:05:04+00:00** Chapter 221, 2019 Laws.
- **2019-06-10T16:12:23+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45771e72-71f3-475f-a005-d13903464d3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).