republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/sb-15.md

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Bill	Relating to simple estates.	</b> </i>] [<i>Expands the types of estates that may use the simple estate process to administer a decedent's estate. Modifies the calculation of fair market values of assets and retains application of the current probate filing fees for the new type of simple estates. Directs the State Court Administrator to adjust asset value limitations for the new type of simple estates annually for inflation.</i>] <b>Modifies calculations of the fair market value of simple estate assets by excluding the values of manufactured homes from the asset limits for personal property and including the values of manufactured homes in the assets limits for real property.</b>	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	SB 15	Oregon SB 15 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Kim Thatcher	8	24	5	2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00	2025-06-23T19:08:23+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0f9ee1f3-715a-4759-8439-918debf6d42f	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB15	709cf4b8b36ed5dd86c616058c3ef8a5b0e756db5d66324804c060e0bafe5c0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 15 (2025R1) — Relating to simple estates.

] [Expands the types of estates that may use the simple estate process to administer a decedent's estate. Modifies the calculation of fair market values of assets and retains application of the current probate filing fees for the new type of simple estates. Directs the State Court Administrator to adjust asset value limitations for the new type of simple estates annually for inflation.] Modifies calculations of the fair market value of simple estate assets by excluding the values of manufactured homes from the asset limits for personal property and including the values of manufactured homes in the assets limits for real property.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HJUD Amendment -A11 (committee substitute) — source
6. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SJUD Amendment -5 (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill. — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Thatcher. Passed. — 28–0 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Mannix. Passed. — 50–0 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kim Thatcher — primary (person)
• David Brock Smith — cosponsor (person)
• E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
• Fred Girod — 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
• 2025-01-27T23:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-02-24T23:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-03-19T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-03-31T21:37:38+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01T18:26:18+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-04-02T19:27:53+00:00 Carried over to 04-03 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-04-03T19:04:25+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Thatcher. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T19:29:59+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-10T21:12:57+00:00 Referred to Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2025-05-07T22:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-05-22T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-05-28T22:41:27+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-29T20:27:52+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-02T20:50:42+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to June 3, 2025 Calendar.
• 2025-06-03T22:43:19+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to June 4, 2025 Calendar.
• 2025-06-04T22:23:47+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Mannix. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-09T19:03:26+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill.
• 2025-06-10T19:30:18+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-11T16:51:25+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-06-17T19:13:27+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-06-23T19:03:43+00:00 Chapter 342, 2025 Laws.
• 2025-06-23T19:08:23+00:00 Effective date, January 1, 2026.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f9ee1f3-715a-4759-8439-918debf6d42f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).