2026 Legislative Agenda Updates
During the 2026 Oregon legislative short session, we advocated for policies that align with our mission and the work we do in our community. We championed bills that were critically important to Adelante’s mission and address important community needs. Thank you to everyone who showed up to advocate, sent emails, provided testimony, and told your stories. And thank you to Oregon’s legislators that listened and took action. Here’s the outcomes for each of our priorities:
Anti-Hunger Package
The Food for All Oregonians coalition advocated for the Anti-Hunger Package: policies that will feed millions of Oregonians and work to end hunger at its roots. The bills that passed were:
Preserve SNAP - Protects the 770,000+ Oregonians who rely on SNAP to feed their families.
Relief for Humanitarian Immigrants - Oregon must provide one-time relief for the thousands of Oregonians who lost SNAP due to H.R. 1’s exclusion of humanitarian immigrants.
Unfortunately, these bills did not pass, meaning that many families will have to continue to rely on food banks to fill the nutrition gap:
School Meals for All
Emergency Food System to keep Oregon's Food Assistance Network afloat and increase to the Oregon Hunger Response Fund.
Immigrant Justice Package: Universal Representation (HB 4117)
Immigrant Justice Package: Universal Representation (HB 4117)
Universal Representation keeps families together with critical immigration legal services from Oregon's universal representation program, and direct assistance to children and families separated from a caregiver. Thankfully, this bill passed!
Immigration legal services, $8M: Provides deportation defense and other critical legal services to keep families and communities more stable and secure.
Children's Stability Fund, $2M: Direct assistance to children and families separated from a caregiver, covering rent, utilities, and food when primary wage earners are detained.
Early Childhood Education Coalition: Restore $10-20 million in cuts to services through DELC
Our goal was to protect core services to children and families by restoring $10-20 million from 2025 cuts.
The result was a $1.1 million cut to DELC (Department of Early Learning and Care). Programs are not impacted but also no funds were restored to DELC or Nurse Family Partnership as hoped. There were some funds restored to the Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) program via decoupling from the federal tax breaks.