SB 1513
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The enrolled bill establishes a statutory framework for real estate teams within Oregon brokerages, mandating specific client disclosures, principal broker supervision, and dual-agency limitations, while prohibiting team names from containing the words “realty” or “real estate” or matching the brokerage’s registered name. Compliance is required by July 1, 2027, with the measure taking effect immediately upon passage.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The measure establishes a regulatory framework for real estate teams and extends compliance timelines to prevent consumer confusion regarding team naming conventions.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary A
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The extension of the operative date to July 1, 2027 indicates an intent to provide brokerages with sufficient time to rebrand, update internal compliance systems, and adjust marketing materials without disrupting active transactions or incurring immediate financial strain.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary A
Must restructure team formations, draft supervisory agreements, implement mandated client disclosures, and comply with naming restrictions. Administrative burden increases for compliance and rebranding.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Receive standardized transparency regarding team composition, supervisory oversight, and agency relationships before entering representation agreements.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Gains rulemaking authority to define disclosure formats and enforce compliance standards for team structures and supervisory agreements.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Brokerages must audit existing team names for prohibited terms, revise branding materials, and update legal templates for supervisory and limited agency agreements. Administrative costs will arise from rebranding, compliance training, and form distribution.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Consumers gain clearer visibility into who is managing their transaction and how conflicts of interest are handled, though they may encounter less recognizable marketing from teams forced to change names.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Real estate buyers and sellers
A consumer navigating a complex dual-agency scenario receives unambiguous, standardized disclosures that prevent hidden conflicts of interest and ensure both parties understand the limited agency boundaries before signing.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Established real estate teams
A well-known team with significant market recognition must abandon its long-standing brand name due to the naming prohibition, resulting in lost marketing equity, client confusion, and temporary revenue disruption during rebranding.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The statute relies on agency rulemaking and broker compliance; gaps in monitoring or intentional structural workarounds could enable noncompliant practices despite the statutory framework.
Sources · Enrolled
Enhances consumer transparency and clarifies supervisory accountability in exchange for restricting brokerage marketing flexibility and imposing administrative compliance costs. Upsides include reduced buyer/seller confusion and stronger oversight; downsides include rebranding expenses, potential loss of brand recognition, and increased regulatory burden on brokerages.
The enrolled version restores the naming prohibition that was temporarily bracketed in the Senate amendment phase. The core framework, disclosure requirements, supervisory rules, and dual-agency limitations remain unchanged. The operative date for compliance is explicitly set to July 1, 2027, with an emergency clause ensuring immediate effect upon passage.
The naming prohibition was reinstated as a permanent statutory requirement rather than a temporary or deleted provision.
Ensures long-term consumer protection against misleading team names and aligns with the stated goal of preventing confusion.
Sources · Enrolled; Senate Amendments to Introduced
Tradeoff: The reinstatement of the naming prohibition strengthens consumer transparency but increases compliance costs for brokerages that have already adapted to prior versions.
high confidence. The enrolled bill text is complete, fiscally neutral per official analysis, and explicitly states operative dates and disclosure requirements. The rationale is directly supported by staff summaries. Remaining uncertainties relate to implementation details and market impact, which are standard for newly enacted regulatory measures.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
The amendment reinstates a statutory prohibition on real estate team names containing the terms “realty” or “real estate” or matching their brokerage’s registered business name, delays the compliance deadline to July 1, 2027, and codifies mandatory client disclosures and supervisory requirements for such teams.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The measure aims to establish a regulatory framework for real estate teams, prevent consumer confusion by restricting team names, and extend the operative date for compliance with prior statutory changes.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary A
The text supports no bounded hypothesis.
Must rebrand team names, update marketing materials, and implement new disclosure forms by July 1, 2027.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Will receive standardized disclosures clarifying team member roles, supervisory structures, and potential dual-agency conflicts before signing representation agreements.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Gains statutory authority to enforce naming restrictions and disclosure compliance, shifting from the temporary suspension in the introduced bill back to active regulatory oversight.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
Brokerages will incur administrative and marketing costs to rename teams and draft compliant disclosure forms. Clients gain transparency regarding who holds supervisory responsibility and whether a team faces a conflict of interest in a transaction. The July 1, 2027 operative date provides a transition period but extends the window during which naming practices may remain ambiguous.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Home buyers and sellers
A buyer and seller are simultaneously represented by the same team without a limited agency agreement; the mandatory disclosure requirement forces the team to either decline one representation or execute a legally compliant limited agency agreement, preventing an undisclosed fiduciary breach.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Real estate brokerages and licensed teams
A brokerage with decades of market recognition under a name containing “real estate” faces sudden rebranding mandates and legal exposure for noncompliance during a period of high transaction volume, resulting in lost client trust and significant operational disruption.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The distinction rests on whether the Real Estate Agency actively monitors marketing channels and enforces naming rules post-2027 versus relying solely on client complaints.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The measure trades reduced immediate rebranding costs for brokerages against prolonged consumer exposure to ambiguous team branding and delayed disclosure enforcement; the upside is operational continuity for firms, while the downside is extended regulatory ambiguity for consumers.
Brokerages avoid forced mid-cycle rebranding during high-transaction periods, preserving brand equity and client relationships.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Consumers continue to face naming ambiguity for over a year, and the Real Estate Agency delays standardized oversight of team disclosures and supervisory structures.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. The amendment text, staff summaries, and fiscal statements are explicit regarding the reinstated naming prohibition, delayed operative date, disclosure requirements, and supervisory mandates. No enacted status or comparison version is present.
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Introduced bill text posted
Posted Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM PST
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Oregon records no individual sponsors.
Presession filing record
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President.
LC 294 draft
Date printed on LC draft: December 17, 2025
LC 294 became SB 1513
Mapping document posted: January 9, 2026 at 6:05 AM PST
LC0294_DRAFT_2026_Regular_Session
Senate Interim Committee on Commerce and General Government introduction work session
Committee meeting: January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM PST
HR B
Committee introduction motion
Committee meeting: January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM PST
A motion was made to adopt the listed legislative concepts as committee bills.
Official vote: 5-0-0
Committee introduction allows consideration; it does not imply every member supported the introduced or final text.
The text changed substantially while keeping measure number SB 1513.
Senate carrier
Senator Mark Meek
Third Reading Of Senate Measures · Version A
House carrier
Representative Vikki Breese-Iverson
Third Reading Of Senate Bills · Version A
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Effective date, March 31, 2026.
Chapter 76, 2026 Laws.
Governor signed.
Speaker signed.
President signed.
Third reading. Carried by Breese-Iverson. Passed.
Ayes, 41; Absent, 6--Boshart Davis, Harbick, Osborne, Scharf, Skarlatos, Yunker; Excused, 5--Diehl, Hartman, Levy E, Mannix, Valderrama; Excused for Business of the House, 8--Elmer, Hudson, Levy B, Marsh, Nathanson, Reschke, Sosa, Walters.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass.
Staff Measure Summary · Version A
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 2 · Room HR 40 · Delays until July 1, 2027, the requirement that a real estate team change the terms used in the team name.
IS_Impact SB 1513 A
Revenue Impact Statement
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 1 · Room HR 40 · Delays until July 1, 2027, the requirement that a real estate team change the terms used in the team name.
Referred to Housing and Homelessness.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Meek. Passed.
Ayes, 27; Excused, 3--Drazan, Frederick, Linthicum.
Carried over to 02-19 by virtue of adjournment.
Second reading.
Senate Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.)
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 4 · Room HR B · Provides that real estate teams are not required to change terms used in the team name until July 1, 2027.
IS_Impact SB 1513 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -1 adopted
Work Session
Not Heard · Agenda item 4 · Room HR B · Provides that real estate teams are not required to change terms used in the team name until July 1, 2027.
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 3 · Room HR B · Provides that real estate teams are not required to change terms used in the team name until July 1, 2027.
Referred to Commerce and General Government.
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
egistered business name. ISSUES DISCUSSED: Updates to real estate statutes in House Bill 3137 (2025) Establishment of a regulatory framework for real estate teams Prohib
passage. ISSUES DISCUSSED: Implementation timeline for provisions enacted in House Bill 3137 (2025) Restrictions on certain terms intended to prevent potential consumer c
ive date for compliance EFFECT OF AMENDMENT: No amendment. BACKGROUND: In 2025, House Bill 3137 allowed associated real estate licensees in a main real estate office or in a b
s EFFECT OF AMENDMENT: The amendment replaces the measure. BACKGROUND: In 2025, House Bill 3137 allowed associated real estate licensees in a main real estate office or in a b
“Effective date, March 31, 2026.”
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