Oregon House Bill 4084

Oregon House Bill 4084 is a 2026 state law that took effect on 5 June 2026. The governor's office described it in April as a FastTrack permitting model for major economic development projects. It sets up a Joint Permitting Council in the governor's office to co-ordinate state permits for high-priority projects, and it makes agencies publish catalogues of the permits they issue. The law firm Beveridge & Diamond says qualifying projects range from more than $25 million of investment in nonurban counties to more than $100 million inside the Portland-area urban growth boundary.

The same law holds data centres back. According to Beveridge & Diamond, it temporarily bars new enterprise zone authorisations for data-centre projects and denies them extended exemption periods.

Governor Tina Kotek's letter of 9 October 2026 thanked the Department of Environmental Quality for streamlining air permitting in line with the law, then asked it to pause data-centre air and water permits until July 2027. Oregon now speeds permits for other industry while slowing them for data centres. In September 2026 Texas Governor Greg Abbott turned the permit desk against data centres too, pausing every data-centre permit in his state.