Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are ineligible to receive conveyances of certain land, mineral or water interests.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2106
Sponsored by Representative OSBORNE (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act blocks US adversaries from getting land, water or mineral rights. (Flesch
Readability Score: 60.7).
Requires the Attorney General to adopt and maintain a list of foreign adversaries who are in-
eligible to receive conveyances of certain land, mineral or water interests. Makes unauthorized
conveyancesvoid.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to conveyances to foreign adversaries.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 180.
SECTION 2. (1) The Attorney General, by rule, shall adopt and periodically revise a list
of persons known or believed to be foreign adversaries to the United States.
(2) Upon inclusion on the list, a person is ineligible to receive property or mineral rights
as described in section 4 of this 2025 Act or to receive water rights as described in section
6 of this 2025 Act.
(3) In adopting the list under this section, the Attorney General shall consider including
those persons that are:
(a) Listed as foreign adversaries by the United States Secretary of Commerce under 15
C.F.R. 791.4;
(b) Subject to a prohibition on the trade of defense articles or services with the United
States under 22 C.F.R. 126.1; or
(c) Included within the United States Department of Treasury’s List of Specially Desig-
nated Nationals and Blocked Persons or any other list or identification of sanctioned persons
or property maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
(4) A person added to the list:
(a) Is not entitled to notice.
(b) May file an appeal challenging the validity of the person’s inclusion on the list at any
time, notwithstanding any limitations on review under ORS 183.400.
SECTION 3.
Section 4 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 93.
SECTION 4. A deed, sales agreement or any other instrument is void if the instrument,
whether or not recorded, conveys any interest or rights in any real property to a person who,
on the date that the instrument is executed or recorded, is a listed foreign adversary as de-
scribed in section 2 of this 2025 Act, if the instrument:
(1) Conveys land that, at the time of conveyance, is zoned for exclusive farm use, forest
use or mixed farm and forest use; or
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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(2) Involves the transfer of a mining claim, mineral rights or a water right.
SECTION 5.
Section 6 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 540.505 to
540.585.
SECTION 6. (1) The Water Resources Department may not approve any application that
attempts to make a transfer or change of a water right, including under ORS 540.010, 540.020,
540.023 or 540.030, such that the water right would become held by or for the use of a person
who, on the date that the application was executed or received by the department, is a listed
foreign adversary as described in section 2 of this 2025 Act.
(2) A transfer or attempted transfer or change of a water right under subsection (1) of
this section, whether or not approved by the department, is void and may not be given any
effect by a district or any other person.
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