republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/hb-3521.md

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Bill	Relating to residential tenancy hold deposits.	</b> </i>] Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement <b>of a habitable dwelling unit</b> in exchange for holding a deposit<b>, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God</b>.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	HB 3521	Oregon HB 3521 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Annessa Hartman	5	33	5	2025-02-11T19:19:12+00:00	2025-07-25T17:45:38+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f16589c6-d96c-402c-9468-8c0f30084ed9	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB3521	8278a475ad27ce766077071468d2f6811143f195d1cd478f96f5a0a70b377948	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon HB 3521 (2025R1) — Relating to residential tenancy hold deposits.

] Requires residential landlords to pay a minimum amount of damages for breaching an agreement to later execute a rental agreement of a habitable dwelling unit in exchange for holding a deposit, unless the deposit is returned within five business days or repayment is excused based on an act of God.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
2. Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HHOUSH Amendment -5 (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 8–4 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. — 20–8 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Hartman. Passed. — 33–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Annessa Hartman — primary (person)
• Deb Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Hoa Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• Kayse Jama — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Gamba — cosponsor (person)
• Nancy Nathanson — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
• Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11T19:19:12+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T21:25:30+00:00 Referred to Housing and Homelessness. referral-committee
• 2025-02-17T21:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-04-07T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-04-11T18:36:50+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14T18:07:11+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-04-15T22:01:12+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to April 16, 2025 Calendar.
• 2025-04-16T19:50:15+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to April 17, 2025 Calendar.
• 2025-04-17T21:18:12+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Hartman. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-21T18:38:45+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-21T21:55:42+00:00 Referred to Education. referral-committee
• 2025-04-28T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-05-01T16:13:59+00:00 Recommendation: Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Housing and Development.
• 2025-05-01T16:14:00+00:00 Referred to Housing and Development by order of the President. referral-committee
• 2025-05-12T20:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-05-19T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-05-22T17:09:40+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22T19:00:06+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-05-27T19:17:19+00:00 Carried over to 05-28 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-05-28T20:29:31+00:00 Carried over to 05-29 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-05-29T21:59:57+00:00 Carried over to 06-02 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-02T19:24:04+00:00 Carried over to 06-03 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-03T19:39:23+00:00 Carried over to 06-04 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-04T19:31:28+00:00 Carried over to 06-05 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-05T19:02:25+00:00 Carried over to 06-09 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-09T19:36:00+00:00 Carried over to 06-10 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-10T19:18:32+00:00 Carried over to 06-11 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-12T00:22:01+00:00 Carried over to 06-12 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-06-12T18:55:35+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-13T19:59:45+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-06-16T22:18:39+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-24T20:52:56+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-07-25T17:45:38+00:00 Chapter 392, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f16589c6-d96c-402c-9468-8c0f30084ed9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).