republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/hb-2138.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to land use; and declaring an emergency."
description: "Expands allowable middle housing and expands middle housing requirements to include urban unincorporated lands. Expands allowable single room occupancies. Establishes dates by which local governments must implement changes. Makes retroactive the prohibition on private restrictions, including restrictions in governing documents of planned communities, that would limit middle housing, accessory dwelling units or housing density. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Reforms expedited land division provisions and makes such divisions land use decisions that are exempt from hearing requirements and appeals by opponents. Allows for plats that consolidate a land division and a middle housing land division and requires review within 120 days. Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to promote housing development and implement various provisions of this Act. Increases appropriations for rulemaking and for technical assistance grants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2025R1"
identifier: "HB 2138"
citation: "Oregon HB 2138 (2025R1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 11
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-13T16:01:32+00:00"
last_action: "2025-08-07T21:11:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5b706ca-451b-49d8-a3b3-0d8bc08adc78"
source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2138"
source_hash: "e2c802da5d242b21aff1d5dc29932ce17346e5a80d7b507dcf16f30799fc64a9"
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 2138 (2025R1) — Relating to land use; and declaring an emergency.

Expands allowable middle housing and expands middle housing requirements to include urban unincorporated lands. Expands allowable single room occupancies. Establishes dates by which local governments must implement changes. Makes retroactive the prohibition on private restrictions, including restrictions in governing documents of planned communities, that would limit middle housing, accessory dwelling units or housing density. Becomes operative January 1, 2027. Reforms expedited land division provisions and makes such divisions land use decisions that are exempt from hearing requirements and appeals by opponents. Allows for plats that consolidate a land division and a middle housing land division and requires review within 120 days. Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2028, to promote housing development and implement various provisions of this Act. Increases appropriations for rulemaking and for technical assistance grants. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

## 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/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/House%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/A-Engrossed)
4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/B-Engrossed)
5. **C-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/C-Engrossed)
6. **HHOUSH Amendment -6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/28602)
7. **House Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/House%20Amendments%20to%20A-Engrossed)
8. **JWM Amendment -A8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/29601)
9. **JWM Amendment -B9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/29755)
10. **Senate Amendments to B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20B-Engrossed)
11. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2138/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. — **21–8** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **18–3** (pass) · legislature
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **9–2** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Marsh. Passed. — **33–17** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **16–5** (pass) · legislature
- House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — **31–12** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T16:01:32+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17T20:47:46+00:00** Referred to Housing and Homelessness. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T21:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2025-03-26T20:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2025-04-02T20:01:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-04-09T20:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-04-16T16:17:41+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16T16:17:42+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-06T15:41:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Transportation and Economic Development. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10T22:03:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
- **2025-06-10T22:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-06-13T16:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-06-16T19:26:18+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17T18:54:06+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18T20:25:18+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Marsh. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-19T19:05:13+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19T20:47:00+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-20T23:32:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2025-06-23T20:27:46+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng. bill, to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-24T18:18:10+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-06-24T18:46:57+00:00** Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-26T23:13:41+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
- **2025-06-30T18:36:31+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-06-30T19:18:53+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-07-18T02:25:24+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-07T21:11:07+00:00** Chapter 476, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 17, 2025.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5b706ca-451b-49d8-a3b3-0d8bc08adc78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).