Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3525: Relating to exempt wells that supply ground water for domestic purposes.
Status: Chaptered, August 13, 2025
Digest: This Act requires landlords to test tenants' wells for contaminants. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires, for each dwelling unit rented by a landlord for which the source of drinking water is an exempt well in a ground water quality management area, that the landlord collect and test samples of drinking water from the dwelling unit for arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead and nitrates. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt implementation rules. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 28, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session House Bill 3525 Sponsored by Representatives HARTMAN, OWENS, HELM; Representatives GAMBA, GOMBERG, LIVELY, MCDONALD, NATHANSON, WALTERS, Senators MANNING JR, MEEK, PHAM K CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to exempt wells that supply ground water for domestic purposes. SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 90. SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Contaminants" includes arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead and nitrates. (b) "Exempt well" means a well used for purposes exempt under ORS 537.545 (1)(b) or (d). (2) If a dwelling unit has an exempt well or wells as a source of drinking water and is within a ground water management area, as defined in ORS 468B.150, the landlord shall collect and test samples of drinking water for the unit. (3) A landlord shall ensure that each source for which drinking water is collected under subsection (5)(a) of this section is tested as follows: (a) The water must be tested for arsenic no later than 30 days after installing the exempt well. (b) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the drinking water must be tested for each contaminant at least once each year. (4) Following a test that indicates that the drinking water does not contain contaminants that exceed the maximum …
Sponsors
- Annessa Hartman (D, 40) · primary sponsor