Community Updates
Since the last MHCO Legislative Update" last week there has been significant progress in moving the "inclusionary zoning" bill (SB 1533) and the "tenant protection" bill (HB 4143). No hostile amendments have been added to either bill. At one point the Port of Portland…
Good morning. This has been a very busy week in the Oregon Legislature as we head into the home stretch of the 2016 Oregon Legislative Session. The Renter Protection" bill (HB 4143) passed out of the Oregon House on Tuesday and is now in the Senate Rules Committee. It is scheduled…
By Emily Q. ShultsBullard Law - 503.248.1134 or on the web at www.bullardlaw.comOn Thursday, the Oregon House of Representatives approved landmark legislation (Senate Bill 1532) which raises the state's minimum wage rate to the highest in the United States, and does so through an unprecedented…
We are now approaching the halfway point in the 2016 Oregon Legislative Session. We are starting to get a much better sense of what legislative proposals are moving forward and which ones will likely remain in committees and not see the light of day until perhaps the next legislative session in…
We are now in day 9 of the 2016 Oregon Legislative Session. Today is a major milestone for the session - after today House Bills NOT passed out of House Committees (and likewise Senate Bills in Senate Committees) are considered dead and will have to be reintroduced in the 2017 Legislative…
Good morning! We are now on day 7 of the 2016 Oregon Legislative Session - 28 days left. MHCO has been monitoring several bills. The most significant is HB 4143, now referred to as the renter protection bill". This bill is the legislature's response to the Portland housing…
Editor's Note: Earlier this year MHCO passed significant changes to Oregon's abandonment law in the Oregon Legislature. To assist MHCO Members with these changes, MHCO has developed three new forms as a result of the new abandonment law: The new forms are: MHCO…
The short" session of the legislature begins this coming Monday
By Michael G. McCloryAttorney, Bullard Law. Mike can be reached at mmcclory@bullardlaw.com While you were attending last weekend's record opening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Congress approved and President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which provides for…
By: Phil Querin, MHCO Legal CounselCurrent Oregon Law. ORS 90.680 is the statute governing the on-site sale of homes in a manufactured housing community. It previously contained no limitations on landlords who required, as a condition of tenancy, that residents selling their homes must enter…