The other five subjects Oregon did not legislate

The same sweep looked for the topics that are most active in other states' HOA legislation: reserve studies and reserve funds, association fines, records access, board elections and composition, and dispute resolution. Across 3,770 measures the only genuine association hits were House Bill 3545 in 2025 and House Bill 4064 in 2026, both on tax-foreclosure assessments, and both dead.

Oregon legislated in none of the five. That is not an oversight in the research; it is the finding.

It also puts the 2025–26 sessions in perspective. The bills that did pass and reach associations — Senate Bill 1551 on fire hardening, House Bill 3746 on construction defects, House Bill 2138 on middle housing, House Bill 3144 on manufactured dwellings — all came at associations sideways, from wildfire policy, construction policy and housing-supply policy. None of them was an HOA governance bill. Oregon has not passed one of those in this period at all.

The interim was empty too

All 1,726 committee agenda items for the 2025 interim session were scanned for homeowners associations, planned communities, condominiums, community associations, assessment liens, ombudsman and unit owners. Ten items matched on keywords and every one was a false positive driven by the words “management” or “homeownership” — juniper management in Central Oregon, affordable housing development, factory-built housing funding, the science of reading, the SALT deduction.

There is no Oregon interim committee work on community-association governance. No informational hearing, no work group, no task force.

What that means for an Oregon owner with a complaint

There is no state office to call. The Planned Community Act's answer is private: mediation and arbitration, encouraged by statute, and covenant-enforcement litigation in circuit court. Our Oregon dispute resolution page sets out the procedural route that does exist.

There is one exception worth knowing about, and it is a lever rather than a regulator. ORS 100.265(3)(b) provides that where an opposing party gives written notice and the association has not complied with the condominium annual report filing requirement within 30 days, “the association may not continue to prosecute or defend such suit or action” until the filing is current. A delinquent $25 annual report can freeze a condominium association mid-litigation, including mid-collection-action.

That is the sharpest consequence Oregon attaches to an association's dealings with the state, and it exists to enforce a filing requirement rather than any standard of conduct.

The limits of this finding

The census is conclusive for anything that reached a bill number or a public committee agenda. It cannot see an unfiled Legislative Counsel draft, because those are confidential to the requesting legislator until introduction. The accurate statement is that no such measure has been introduced, heard, or publicly studied in Oregon, and no organisation has publicly announced one — not that no legislator has privately asked for a draft.

What to watch next

Pre-session filings for the 2027 long session, which open late in 2026. As of mid-September the Legislature's own system has no 2027 session at all, nothing is pre-filed, and neither the Community Associations Institute's Oregon committee nor the Association of Oregon Counties has published a 2027 legislative agenda touching associations.

The single most likely association bill to reappear is the tax-foreclosure assessment measure, now run twice by Representative Javadi — but that is a pattern, not a commitment, and no sponsor has said on the record that it is coming back.