Tina Kotek

Announced on September 5, 2026 a statewide standing order from the Oregon Health Authority letting Oregonians get recommended vaccines without extra barriers for the 2026-27 respiratory season. The order uses a power created by Senate Bill 1598, which she signed earlier in 2026, giving the state public health officer authority to issue standing orders for vaccines and require coverage of them.

September 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Announced on September 4, 2026 that the Bonneville Power Administration had reversed its decision to end funding for the Select Area Fisheries Enhancement programme and would pay for another federal financial year, after she met the agency's administrator twice. The June decision had put more than 7 million salmon already in production at risk and left a $2.4 million gap for the three bodies that run the programme.

September 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted yes as House Speaker on House Bill 2020, a cap-and-trade plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The House passed it 36-24 on June 17, 2019, but it never passed the Senate.

June 17, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted yes as House Speaker on Senate Bill 1532, which set a three-tier state minimum wage by region, with the highest rate in the Portland area. The House passed it 32-26 on February 18, 2016, and it became law.

February 18, 2016Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Signed Senate Bill 916 on June 24, 2025. The law let striking workers collect unemployment benefits after an extra waiting week, with school districts recovering those benefits from later wages.

June 24, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes as House Speaker on Senate Bill 1532, which set a three-tier state minimum wage by region, with the highest rate in the Portland area. The House passed it 32-26 on February 18, 2016, and it became law.

February 18, 2016Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes as House Speaker on Senate Bill 454, which required Oregon employers to give workers sick time. The House passed it 33-24 on June 12, 2015, and it became law.

June 12, 2015Supports Labor Rights

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Asked Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission director Steve Marks to resign in February 2023, amid a scandal over rare bourbon set aside for agency leaders. After he quit, she named Craig Prins, the prisons inspector general, to replace him.

February 14, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

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Signed House Bill 3991, a transportation tax package passed in a special session, on November 7, 2025. It raised road, vehicle and transit taxes and fees and phased in a per-mile road charge for electric and hybrid cars.

November 7, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Signed House Bill 4002 on April 1, 2024. The law made possession of small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor again, rolling back part of voter-approved Measure 110, and expanded funding for addiction treatment.

April 1, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Signed Senate Bill 4 on April 13, 2023. The law set up state grants and loans for chip makers seeking federal CHIPS Act money and let the governor add land to city growth boundaries for chip plants.

April 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes as House Speaker on House Bill 3427, the Student Success Act. It created a new tax on business sales (commercial activity) to fund schools and early learning. The House passed it 37-21 on May 1, 2019, and it became law.

May 1, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Signed House Bill 4002 on April 1, 2024. The law made possession of small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor again, rolling back part of voter-approved Measure 110, and expanded funding for addiction treatment.

April 1, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Signed House Bill 4002 on April 1, 2024. The law made possession of small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor again, rolling back part of voter-approved Measure 110, and expanded funding for addiction treatment.

April 1, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Signed Senate Bill 1537, a housing bill her office requested, on April 17, 2024. It created a state office to help with and enforce housing laws, sped up city housing approvals and let cities expand growth boundaries.

April 17, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Signed House Bill 2001 on March 29, 2023. The law created a statewide housing needs analysis, required cities to plan for their share of new homes, and let the state step in with cities that lag on housing production.

March 29, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Signed an executive order on her second day as Governor of Oregon setting a statewide housing production goal of 36,000 new homes a year, up from about 22,000 built annually at the time, and creating a housing production advisory council to recommend how to reach it.

January 10, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Was Speaker of the Oregon House when it passed Senate Bill 608 in February 2019, the first statewide rent control law in the United States, and publicly backed it. The law caps annual rent rises at 7% plus inflation, exempts buildings less than fifteen years old and limits no-cause evictions after a tenant's first year. Governor Kate Brown signed it on February 28, 2019.

February 28, 2019Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes as House Speaker on House Bill 2004, which limited no-cause evictions after a tenant's first nine months. The House passed it 31-27 on April 4, 2017, but it died in the Senate.

April 4, 2017Supports Housing Affordability

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Extended Oregon's homelessness state of emergency for a third time via executive order as governor.

January 9, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Declared a homelessness state of emergency by executive order on January 10, 2023, covering the parts of Oregon where unsheltered homelessness had risen by 50% or more between 2017 and 2022, including the Portland region, Central Oregon, Eugene and Springfield, Medford, Ashland and Salem.

January 10, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted yes as House Speaker on House Bill 3427, the Student Success Act. It created a new tax on business sales (commercial activity) to fund schools and early learning. The House passed it 37-21 on May 1, 2019, and it became law.

May 1, 2019Supports Public Education Quality

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Signed House Bill 2005 on July 13, 2023. The law made it a crime to make, sell or own undetectable guns and guns without serial numbers (often called ghost guns).

July 13, 2023Supports Gun Control

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Signed House Bill 2002 on July 13, 2023. The law expanded legal protections for abortion and gender-affirming care, shielded providers and patients, and made it a crime to interfere with a health care facility.

July 13, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Signed House Bill 2002 on July 13, 2023. The law expanded legal protections for abortion and gender-affirming care, shielded providers and patients, and made it a crime to interfere with a health care facility.

July 13, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Signed House Bill 3991, a transportation tax package passed in a special session, on November 7, 2025. It raised road, vehicle and transit taxes and fees and phased in a per-mile road charge for electric and hybrid cars.

November 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Signed Senate Bill 1599 on March 2, 2026. The law moved the public vote on the referred transportation tax package (Referendum Petition 2026-302) from November to the May 19, 2026 primary.

March 2, 2026

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Praised an October 4, 2025 federal court ruling that blocked President Trump from federalizing the Oregon National Guard for Portland. Oregon had sued, arguing no invasion or rebellion existed to justify it.

October 4, 2025

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Vetoed Senate Bill 875, about visits between foster-care siblings placed apart, on June 24, 2025. The state Senate overrode her veto 21-6 the next day.

June 24, 2025

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Had ethics complaints against her closed by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission on June 28, 2024, after a 4-4 vote on a full investigation failed. The complaints concerned staff and office space given to her wife, Aimee Kotek Wilson.

June 28, 2024

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Dropped a 2021 deal giving Republicans equal seats on the House redistricting committee, as House Speaker, on September 20, 2021. She formed a new committee with a Democratic majority to pass a congressional map.

September 20, 2021

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Was faulted, with the Senate President, by a state labor bureau finding that legislative leaders failed to act on sexual harassment at the Capitol. On March 5, 2019, the Legislature settled for $1.32 million, and the two leaders apologized.

March 5, 2019

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