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HB2754 • 2025

Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.

Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.

Housing
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Evans
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.

Digest: This Act stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant's ideas.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant's ideas.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
  • Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.
  • Relating to: Relating to viewpoint discrimination in nonresidential tenancies.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Housing and Homelessness.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant's ideas. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.
Relating to: Relating to viewpoint discrimination in nonresidential tenancies.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2754
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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 stops a landlord from barring or limiting a tenancy based on a tenant’s ideas.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Prohibits viewpoint discrimination by nonresidential landlords.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to viewpoint discrimination in nonresidential tenancies.
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 91.010 to 91.110.
SECTION 2. (1) A landlord may not, as a condition of entering into a tenancy, or as a
term of the tenancy, discriminate against a tenant based on a tenant’s viewpoint or tenant’s
expression of that viewpoint privately or within the leased premises.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Viewpoint” includes any religious, political or ideological belief.
(b) “Viewpoint” does not include any expression of:
(A) Explicit support for violent, criminal or antisocial behavior; or
(B) Animus toward other persons, relating to their race, color, religion, gender identity,
sexual orientation, disability or national origin.
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.
LC 2545