Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SB690: Relating to perinatal public health; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Passed one chamber, August 8, 2025
Digest: This Act delays evictions for babies' families who get help with rent through OHP. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following [ approval of ] defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports. Requires the Judicial Department to make conforming updates to the nonpayment termination notice. Becomes operative on September 1, 2025. Sunsets on September 28, 2027. Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to prioritize housing funding for children under 12 months of age and to annually report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing on the rate of children experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 27, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session Senate Bill 690 Sponsored by Senator REYNOLDS, Representatives GRAYBER, NERON, NELSON; Senators GELSER BLOUIN, MANNING JR, PATTERSON, Representatives ANDERSEN, CHOTZEN, FRAGALA, GAMBA, HARTMAN, HUDSON, LEVY E, MCLAIN, NGUYEN H, RIEKE SMITH, RUIZ, TRAN (Presession filed.) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to perinatal public health; creating new provisions; amending ORS 105.136; and declaring an emergency. Whereas Oregon ranks first in the nation for families with children experiencing unsheltered homelessness and there are additional Oregon children who experience severe housing insecurity; and Whereas the number of families with children experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Oregon is 14 times higher than the national average and nearly three times higher than the next highest state; and Whereas current varied methodologies for calculating and defining homelessness can lead to undercounting and can present barriers to families accessing resources; and Whereas the population at highest risk of eviction in the United States is families with babies and toddlers who experience an eviction rate twice as high as adults without children; and Whereas homelessness and housing insecurity for families with babies under one year old creates toxic stress for caregivers and interferes with early relational health affecting the brain growth of babies; and Whereas adversity in the perinatal period leads to long-lasting effects on healthy social, emotional and cognitive development, increasing the likelihood of …