HB 4123
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HB 4123 establishes a comprehensive privacy regime for rental housing by defining 'confidential information' broadly—including immigration status, medical records, and protected class data—and prohibiting landlords from disclosing it except in specific operational or legal circumstances. It grants tenants a private right to recover statutory damages equal to twice the monthly rent for knowing violations.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The specific inclusion of immigration status, protected class membership, and records related to the assertion of tenant rights suggests a legislative aim to prevent data-driven discrimination or retaliation against vulnerable tenants.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Must implement data handling protocols to distinguish exempt disclosures from prohibited ones; required to obtain separate written consent for non-exempt sharing; faces statutory damages liability for knowing violations.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Gain enhanced privacy protections for sensitive personal and legal data; acquire a private right of action to recover damages without relying on state enforcement.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
May receive tenant data only when 'necessary' for specific exempt purposes such as repair, affordable housing compliance, or screening.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Landlords must secure 'separate written consent' for disclosures not covered by exemptions; general lease clauses cannot substitute for this specific consent requirement.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The distinction between administrative and judicial warrants in the exemption creates a compliance obligation for landlords to verify the nature of government requests before disclosing information.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Statutory damages of twice the monthly rent apply to 'knowing' violations, creating potential financial exposure that may exceed actual harm in cases of minor or technical disclosures.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Survivors of Domestic Violence
A tenant asserting rights under the federal Violence Against Women Act has their records shielded from disclosure to a potential new landlord who might otherwise use that history to deny housing, thereby preserving housing stability and safety for the survivor.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Small Portfolio Landlords
A landlord inadvertently shares an applicant's banking information with a vendor not covered by the exemptions, triggering a knowing violation claim and accumulating damages equal to twice the monthly rent for every affected applicant across their portfolio.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The text legally permits disclosure for screening; abuse arises from weak enforcement or duty creep where landlords share excessive data under the guise of screening necessity.
Sources · Enrolled
The measure balances tenant privacy and protection against discrimination or retaliation with landlord operational needs for screening, maintenance, and compliance.
The enrolled bill incorporates the House Committee amendment adding an exception allowing landlords to share a tenant's phone number or email address for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services. The previous version lacked this specific operational exemption.
Addition of disclosure exception for sharing contact information for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services.
Ensures routine operational communications do not trigger liability, addressing practical landlord concerns raised during committee review.
Sources · Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary A
Tradeoff: The amendment mitigates the operational burden on landlords by explicitly permitting necessary contact sharing for services, reducing the risk of inadvertent violations during routine property management.
high confidence. Analysis based on enrolled bill text and official staff summaries; no external speculation used.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
If adopted, the amendment would explicitly authorize landlords to share a tenant’s phone number or email address with third parties when necessary for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services defined in ORS 90.315(1), without triggering the bill’s statutory damages provision. It renumbers existing exceptions but leaves the core confidentiality framework intact.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment likely aims to prevent landlords from inadvertently violating the new confidentiality statute when coordinating with contractors or utility providers, by clarifying that sharing contact details for routine operational purposes falls outside the prohibition.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Gain a clear statutory safe harbor for sharing contact information with service providers, reducing compliance uncertainty and lowering the risk of accidental liability under the new confidentiality framework.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Retain broad confidentiality protections for financial, medical, immigration, and protected-class data, but lose absolute control over their contact information when it must be shared for property upkeep or utility services.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Introduced; Staff Measure Summary A
May receive tenant contact details directly from landlords under the new exception, potentially increasing their exposure to data handling obligations and privacy compliance requirements.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Landlords can routinely forward phone or email addresses to plumbers, electricians, or utility companies without obtaining separate written consent, provided the disclosure is necessary for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Compliance costs decrease for property managers by removing ambiguity around routine operational disclosures, while tenants retain the right to pursue statutory damages equal to twice the monthly rent if a landlord knowingly violates the broader disclosure prohibition.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Introduced
Enforcement will rely on a case-by-case assessment of whether sharing contact information was truly necessary for a specific service, creating potential variability in how the exception is applied across jurisdictions.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Landlord/Property Manager
A landlord avoids a costly statutory damages lawsuit after forwarding a tenant’s email to an emergency water repair contractor, as the amendment explicitly protects this routine operational disclosure from liability.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
Tenant/Applicant
A landlord systematically shares all tenant phone numbers with a preferred vendor network for non-essential maintenance coordination, effectively bypassing the statute's privacy intent and exposing tenants to unsolicited marketing or data breaches, relying on a broad interpretation of necessity.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The necessity standard lacks objective thresholds, creating room for expansive interpretation that could undermine the bill's core privacy protections.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
The amendment balances operational efficiency for property management against tenant privacy by explicitly allowing contact information sharing for essential services while maintaining broad confidentiality protections for all other data.
Reduces landlord compliance uncertainty and ensures timely property maintenance without requiring written consent for routine vendor coordination.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Expands the scope of permissible data sharing, potentially increasing tenant exposure to third-party vendors and complicating enforcement of the necessity standard.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied proposed amendment text, current bill text, and official legislative staff summaries. No enacted status or external speculation is applied.
If adopted, the amendment would narrow statutory tenant privacy protections by removing immigration/citizenship status and other government-issued identifiers (retaining only Social Security numbers) from the definition of confidential information, while simultaneously expanding landlord disclosure exceptions to include administrative warrants and subpoenas. Material consequence: Tenants lose explicit confidentiality safeguards for specific sensitive data categories, and landlords gain broader legal authority to share tenant data with non-judicial government agencies without a court order.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment may reflect a policy objective to reduce compliance friction for landlords responding to non-judicial government data requests and to align landlord disclosure rules with broader administrative enforcement practices.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Lose statutory confidentiality protections for immigration/citizenship status, ITINs, and other government-issued IDs. Face increased risk of data disclosure via administrative requests and bear the burden of proving landlord knowledge to recover statutory damages.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Gain explicit statutory permission to disclose tenant data in response to administrative warrants/subpoenas. Experience reduced legal ambiguity for non-judicial government requests but face potential liability if disclosures exceed the expanded exceptions.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Can now legally compel landlord disclosure of tenant data via administrative warrants or subpoenas without requiring judicial oversight, potentially streamlining housing, tax, or licensing compliance workflows.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Landlords may more readily comply with administrative agency data requests without legal hesitation, reducing operational friction but increasing the volume of tenant data shared outside judicial channels.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Tenants asserting rights under ORS 90.325, 90.449, 90.453, or 90.459 may face reduced privacy safeguards if those records are classified under the removed immigration/status categories or shared via administrative requests.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Enforcement relies on private civil action; tenants must prove a landlord knowingly violated the disclosure prohibition to recover statutory damages equal to twice the monthly rent, creating a high evidentiary threshold for accountability.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Undocumented or ITIN-using tenants seeking affordable housing
A local housing authority issues an administrative subpoena to verify income and residency for a subsidized unit. Under the amendment, landlords can legally share the required data without judicial delay, accelerating tenant placement into housing programs while avoiding litigation over privacy exemptions.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Tenants with sensitive immigration or financial status
A landlord routinely treats routine business inquiries or non-binding agency requests as administrative subpoenas, sharing tenants' immigration status and ITINs with third-party debt collectors or data brokers. Tenants cannot prove knowing violation for statutory damages, resulting in widespread unauthorized data aggregation and potential discrimination without effective legal recourse.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
The text legally permits disclosure via administrative warrants/subpoenas. Distinguishing lawful compliance from unlawful over-disclosure depends on agency authority and landlord good faith, which the amendment does not define or audit.
Sources · Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Expands landlord data-sharing flexibility and reduces compliance friction for government requests at the cost of narrowing tenant privacy protections for specific sensitive identifiers and immigration status.
Streamlined administrative compliance for landlords responding to non-judicial government requests.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Reduced legal ambiguity regarding disclosure thresholds for administrative agencies.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Reduced statutory privacy safeguards for tenants, increasing exposure of sensitive personal data.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
Potential chilling effect on tenants asserting housing rights if confidentiality protections are narrowed for records tied to protected status.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -3 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is strictly grounded in the provided amendment text and official staff/fiscal summaries. Inferences are bounded by explicit statutory changes and labeled accordingly.
The amendment creates a new statutory exception that explicitly permits landlords to share a tenant's phone number or email address with third parties when necessary for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services defined under ORS 90.315(1), bypassing the general prohibition on disclosing confidential tenant information without written consent or a court order.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment likely addresses operational friction where landlords previously lacked clear statutory authority to share tenant contact details with contractors or utility providers without obtaining separate written consent, potentially delaying essential property maintenance.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Gains explicit legal authority to share tenant phone numbers and email addresses with contractors, utility companies, and service providers for designated property operations without obtaining separate written consent, streamlining routine maintenance workflows.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Faces increased exposure of contact information to third-party vendors and service providers, though the disclosure is statutorily limited to specific operational purposes rather than broad data sharing.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Introduced; Staff Measure Summary A
Receives explicit statutory authorization to receive tenant contact information for designated property-related services, reducing reliance on landlord discretion or ad hoc consent.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Landlords can bypass the written consent requirement for routine maintenance calls, potentially accelerating service requests and reducing administrative delays. However, they must strictly limit disclosures to what is necessary for repair, maintenance, utilities, or services, and cannot extend this exception to other protected data categories such as immigration status, financial records, or medical information.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
Official fiscal and revenue analyses indicate no direct state or local government expenditure impact. Tenants bear the practical risk of increased unsolicited communications or data exposure if third-party vendors mishandle shared contact information, while landlords face potential liability if disclosures exceed the statutory scope or are deemed knowing violations subject to double-rent statutory damages.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Revenue Impact Statement A; IS_Impact HB 4123 1; IS_Impact HB 4123 A
Tenants and Property Owners
A landlord immediately contacts an emergency plumber and utility company to address a burst pipe or gas leak without waiting days for written tenant consent, preventing catastrophic structural damage, mold growth, or safety hazards while remaining fully within statutory bounds.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Tenants and Applicants
A landlord routinely shares tenant phone numbers with a broad network of unvetted vendors, marketing partners, or data brokers under the guise of providing 'services,' leading to widespread spam calls, identity theft, or harassment, exploiting the ambiguity of the 'as necessary' standard.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Introduced
inference
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
The amendment balances operational efficiency for property maintenance against tenant privacy by allowing contact information sharing for essential services while restricting broader confidential data disclosure.
Faster emergency response and streamlined routine maintenance reduce administrative friction and prevent property damage.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Clear statutory authorization reduces landlord uncertainty regarding vendor data sharing, potentially lowering compliance costs.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Staff Measure Summary A
Increased third-party data exposure raises risks of vendor misuse, spam, or privacy breaches beyond the tenant's direct control.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Introduced
The 'as necessary' standard lacks precise boundaries, creating enforcement ambiguity and potential for scope creep into non-essential data sharing.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied amendment text, current bill context, and official legislative staff summaries. No enacted status or external speculation is asserted.
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Introduced bill text posted
Posted Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM PST
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On page 1 of the printed bill, delete lines 7 and 8 and insert: 2 “(b) Social Security number;”.
Official records (1)
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Chief sponsors: Representative Pam Marsh, Senator Wlnsvey Campos, Senator Khanh Pham, Representative Tom Andersen, Representative Willy Chotzen, Senator Jeff Golden, Senator James Manning Jr.
Regular sponsors: Representative Lisa Fragala, Representative Mark Gamba, Representative Lesly Muñoz, Representative Ricki Ruiz, Representative Lamar Wise, Senator Kayse Jama, Senator Courtney Neron Misslin, Senator Deb Patterson, Representative Sue Rieke Smith, Representative David Gomberg, Representative Jules Walters, Representative Annessa Hartman, Representative Susan McLain, Representative Zach Hudson, Representative April Dobson, Representative Dacia Grayber, Senator Janeen Sollman
House carrier
Representative Pam Marsh
Third Reading Of House Bills · Version A
Senate carrier
Senator Dick Anderson
Third Reading Of House Measures · Version A
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Chapter 61, (2026 Laws): Effective date June 5, 2026.
Governor signed.
President signed.
Speaker signed.
Frederick, excused, granted unanimous consent to vote aye.
Third reading. Carried by Anderson. Passed.
Ayes, 25; Nays, 3--Linthicum, Robinson, Thatcher; Excused, 2--Drazan, Girod.
Carried over to 03-02 by unanimous consent.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill.
Public Hearing and Work Session held.
Public Hearing and Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 1 · Room HR E · Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information.
IS_Impact HB 4123 A
Revenue Impact Statement
Referred to Housing and Development.
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Marsh. Passed.
Ayes, 43; Nays, 6--Boshart Davis, Cate, Harbick, Reschke, Skarlatos, Yunker; Excused, 5--Andersen, Hartman, Lewis, Sosa, Valderrama; Excused for Business of the House, 6--Bunch, Diehl, Gomberg, Javadi, Nguyen D, Watanabe.
Second reading.
House Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 6 · Room HR 40 · Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information.
IS_Impact HB 4123 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -1 adopted
Amendment -3 proposed
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 1 · Room HR 40 · Limits the circumstances under which a landlord may disclose confidential information.
Amendment -1 proposed
Referred to Housing and Homelessness.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
“Enrolled bill text posted”
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