Oregon is losing its competitive edge. In the 2026 Legislative Session, lawmakers must take bold action to make Oregon an attractive place for companies to remain, invest, and grow. Action is essential to stabilize our economy and safeguard high-wage jobs.

Support: Preserve and strengthen economic development tools: Protect the Strategic Investment Program, enterprise zones, and urban renewal authority, and improve access to the Research and Development tax credit so employers can reinvest and hire.

Support: Oregon’s connection to federal tax code: Maintain investment incentives and protect employers from costly complexity and compliance burdens and ensure Oregon businesses are not at a further competitive disadvantage with businesses in other states.

Support: Energy policy and cap-and-invest: Support reduced regulation and aligned regional programs that ensure affordability, reliability, and competitiveness.

Support: Support workforce participation: Expand apprenticeships and re-skilling programs aligned with Oregon’s target industries so employers can hire and retain skilled workers.

Support: Address Oregon’s insufficient supply of industrial land: Create immediate industrial land capacity in locations that are desirable for industry and in sizes aligned to market realities and Oregon’s long-term objectives.

Support: Promote regulatory consistency and efficiency: Eliminate overlapping or conflicting state and local requirements that increase costs for employers.

Oppose: Any new or increased business taxes or fees: Businesses are struggling to stay afloat. Now is not the time to add new costs on businesses or divert revenue from dedicated funds like the Transient Lodging Tax.

Oppose: New or expanded regulatory burdens: Reject proposals that create delays, compliance costs, or restrictions that discourage business investment or expansion.

Employers cannot grow if they lack land to expand or if workers cannot afford to live near their jobs. In the 2026 Legislative Session, lawmakers must act to increase housing supply, modernize land use rules, and ensure Oregon has shovel-ready employment sites that support job growth and business investment.

Support: Access to rental housing: Remove barriers to producing and operating rental housing, reevaluating rent caps, and simplifying legal processes to encourage new development.

Support: Prioritize workforce housing supply: Incentivize housing production near employment centers so employers can recruit and retain workers.

Support: Streamline Housing Needs Analysis (HNA) requirements: Ensure local inventories reflect land that is truly developable, remove underutilized parcels from inventories if they remain idle, and allow communities within Metro to use independent, credible sources of population data in their HNAs.

Oppose: New housing planning requirements and regulatory burdens: Reject proposals that create new regulatory requirements. Communities have been struggling to keep pace with frequent changes to housing statutes and rules without clear housing production outcomes.