---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to animal crush videos."
description: "Digest: The Act creates new crimes concerning visual displays of animal abuse. The Act creates exceptions to the new crimes. The Act amends related animal cruelty laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2024R1"
identifier: "HB 4145"
citation: "Oregon HB 4145 (2024R1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Gomberg", "James Manning Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
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/fa707cf0-f352-47db-bc85-a2c7c78e4484"
source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4145"
source_hash: "6af912f81b27174ec541405e9560b836259b9f98d256f84b7da3d99772d1ba53"
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 4145 (2024R1) — Relating to animal crush videos.

Digest: The Act creates new crimes concerning visual displays of animal abuse. The Act creates exceptions to the new crimes. The Act amends related animal cruelty laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).

## 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/HB4145/House%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4145/Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4145/A-Engrossed)
4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4145/B-Engrossed)
5. **HJUD Amendment -1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/25952)
6. **SJUD Amendment -A3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/26127)
7. **Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4145/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20A-Engrossed)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4145/Enrolled)

## Votes

- House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — **56–0** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third reading. Carried by Manning Jr. Passed. — **25–5** (pass) · upper
- Third reading. Carried by Gomberg. Passed. — **58–0** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Gomberg — primary (person)
- James Manning Jr. — primary (person)
- Charlie Conrad — cosponsor (person)
- Dwayne Yunker — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd Prozanski — cosponsor (person)
- James Hieb — cosponsor (person)
- Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Gamba — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Holvey — 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 with subsequent referral to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T16:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2024-02-15T16:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2024-02-16T23:19:44+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and subsequent referral to Ways and Means be rescinded. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-16T23:19:45+00:00** Subsequent referral to Ways and Means rescinded by order of the Speaker.
- **2024-02-19T19:30:48+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20T20:48:43+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Gomberg. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21T19:04:25+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21T20:32:11+00:00** Referred to Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26T21:31:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2024-02-27T21:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2024-02-29T17:04:32+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill to resolve conflicts. (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.
- **2024-03-05T21:46:30+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Manning Jr. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-07T00:11:56+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 41, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa707cf0-f352-47db-bc85-a2c7c78e4484`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).