---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to marriage."
description: "Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2025R1"
identifier: "SB 548"
citation: "Oregon SB 548 (2025R1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Brock Smith", "Janeen Sollman", "Kevin Mannix"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-06T23:05:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3967e7fa-defb-4f67-9d84-8861b634b732"
source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB548"
source_hash: "2f2733265cead60dace85ec9cee1cd3f7adf87018adf9846de64228c7fc326aa"
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 548 (2025R1) — Relating to marriage.

Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB548/Introduced)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB548/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Third reading. Carried by Chaichi. Passed. — **48–2** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third reading. Carried by Sollman, Smith DB. Passed. — **28–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Brock Smith — primary (person)
- Janeen Sollman — primary (person)
- Kevin Mannix — primary (person)
- Annessa Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- April Dobson — cosponsor (person)
- Ben Bowman — cosponsor (person)
- Bobby Levy — cosponsor (person)
- Boomer Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Christine Drazan — cosponsor (person)
- Court Boice — cosponsor (person)
- Cyrus Javadi — cosponsor (person)
- Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Darcey Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- David Gomberg — cosponsor (person)
- Deb Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Dwayne Yunker — cosponsor (person)
- E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
- Emerson Levy — cosponsor (person)
- Farrah Chaichi — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd Prozanski — cosponsor (person)
- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Golden — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
- John Lively — cosponsor (person)
- Jules Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lieber — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Kayse Jama — cosponsor (person)
- Khanh Pham — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Thatcher — cosponsor (person)
- Lesly Muñoz — cosponsor (person)
- Lew Frederick — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Fragala — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Mari Watanabe — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Gamba — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Meek — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Sosa — cosponsor (person)
- Ricki Ruiz — cosponsor (person)
- Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Gelser Blouin — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McDonald — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon Isadore — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne Weber — cosponsor (person)
- Thuy Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
- Virgle Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)
- Wlnsvey Campos — cosponsor (person)
- Zach Hudson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00** Referred to Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T23:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2025-03-03T23:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-03-06T17:44:25+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06T18:55:18+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10T18:33:04+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Sollman, Smith DB. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T18:58:11+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T22:15:18+00:00** Referred to Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06T22:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2025-05-14T22:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-05-16T22:09:18+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19T18:46:28+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-20T20:19:19+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Chaichi. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-21T22:13:26+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-05-22T17:22:34+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-05-28T20:25:24+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-06T23:00:17+00:00** Chapter 224, 2025 Laws.
- **2025-06-06T23:05:17+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2026.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3967e7fa-defb-4f67-9d84-8861b634b732`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).