---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to animal cruelty; prescribing an effective date."
description: "Digest: The Act creates a new crime of interfering with an animal cruelty investigation. The Act makes certain changes to current animal cruelty laws. The Act allows a person who is banned from owning or living with an animal to ask to change the ban. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2024R1"
identifier: "HB 4043"
citation: "Oregon HB 4043 (2024R1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charlie Conrad"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05T16:09:01+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-28T20:51:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b9cebff-074f-4f26-9da3-01fc7a47ee72"
source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4043"
source_hash: "33632acaa8723f312e2cb1b24a442e44c4996f610666d382e24e22cd374158d4"
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 HB 4043 (2024R1) — Relating to animal cruelty; prescribing an effective date.

Digest: The Act creates a new crime of interfering with an animal cruelty investigation. The Act makes certain changes to current animal cruelty laws. The Act allows a person who is banned from owning or living with an animal to ask to change the ban. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0).

## Version chain

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

1. **House Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/House%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/A-Engrossed)
4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/B-Engrossed)
5. **HJUD Amendment -2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/25933)
6. **SJUD Amendment -A3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/26128)
7. **Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20A-Engrossed)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4043/Enrolled)

## Votes

- House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — **51–4** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Prozanski. Passed. — **16–13** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Conrad. Passed. — **54–0** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charlie Conrad — primary (person)
- Ben Bowman — cosponsor (person)
- Bobby Levy — cosponsor (person)
- Boomer Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Courtney Neron — cosponsor (person)
- Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
- David Gomberg — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Dwayne Yunker — cosponsor (person)
- E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
- Emerson Levy — cosponsor (person)
- Emily McIntire — cosponsor (person)
- Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Mannix — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Gamba — cosponsor (person)
- Maxine Dexter — cosponsor (person)
- Virgle Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Zach Hudson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05T16:09:01+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05T19:10:57+00:00** Referred to Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08T16:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2024-02-13T16:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2024-02-15T00:23:07+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15T19:38:45+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15T20:09:36+00:00** Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Conrad. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-19T19:11:02+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19T21:28:37+00:00** Referred to Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21T21:31:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2024-02-27T21:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2024-02-29T17:04:21+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-01T22:57:24+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04T23:14:30+00:00** Carried over to 03-05 by unanimous consent.
- **2024-03-05T19:54:40+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Prozanski. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-07T00:06:01+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
- **2024-03-13T22:07:25+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-19T18:45:47+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-27T21:05:22+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T20:51:09+00:00** Chapter 30, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b9cebff-074f-4f26-9da3-01fc7a47ee72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).