Senate · District 17 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Lisa Reynolds
Incumbent senator and Washington County pediatrician.
Reach the campaign
In their words
Said: Oregon State Senator Dr. Lisa Reynolds never stops working for her patients, her constituents, and her community.
Voters’ pamphlet
Candidate statement · Filed for the November 2026 state voters’ pamphlet; extracted September 21, 2026
Oregon Secretary of State · filed candidate statement · PDF page 78 ↗First sentence of the filed statement; header fields, including a Community Involvement line, are skipped.
The verbatim opening of their voters’ pamphlet statement, the same rule for every candidate. We chose nothing.
What they say they would do
Our summary of their platform, in our wordsFrames state policy around reducing child poverty and improving health and opportunity for families.
- Reduce child poverty and improve outcomes for families.
- Expand healthcare access, especially behavioral-health services.
- Prevent gun violence.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsA pediatrician’s prevention agenda: upstream spending against child poverty, gun-safety laws, and treatment plus supply interruption on fentanyl; the site sets a poverty target but not a next-term budget.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Fund shelter and housing- What
- Said: Housing as a basic right: she voted for record shelter and housing funding and supported rent relief and eviction moratoriums to keep families housed.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Gun safety, treatment- What
- Said: Gun-violence prevention (safe-storage and ghost-gun laws, community-violence grants, expanded extreme-risk orders, a purchase age of 21) plus more addiction treatment and interrupting the fentanyl supply.
- How
- Said: Expand Extreme Risk Protection Orders, raise the firearm purchase age to 21 with hunting-rifle exceptions, fund youth prevention programs; cites $25 million secured for community-violence groups.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
Child tax credit- What
- Said: Upstream investment against child poverty (hunger, housing insecurity, childcare), including the refundable Child Tax Credit she helped pass, with a goal of halving child poverty.
- How
- Said: The 2023 Child Tax Credit (HB 3235): a refundable $1,000 a year per young child for low-income families, plus a maternal-child health package.
- Measured by
- Said: Has called for a 50% reduction in child poverty over four years.
Roads, transit and climate
Not foundNot found in the sources we reviewed. That is a research gap, not a position.
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 8 questions. Lisa Reynolds is on record on 7, with 1 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findLet the state keep part of a future kicker refund for wildfire or other one-time needs?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Vote for a 2027 transportation package that raises the gas tax and vehicle fees again?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3991 in the Senate on September 29, 2025, the gas-tax and fee package voters later repealed.
Close the 2027–29 budget gap with new revenue, or with cuts alone?
Said: Voted yes on SB 1507 on February 16, 2026, which disconnects Oregon from federal H.R. 1 business tax breaks, raising about $314 million for 2027–29, and enlarges the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Make data centers pay their own way: separate power rates, an end to tax breaks, or a pause on new ones?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3546, the POWER Act, in the Senate on June 3, 2025; it lets regulators put data centers in their own electricity rate class.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3644 on June 26, 2025; her site says she voted for record shelter and housing funding and supported rent relief and eviction moratoriums.
Keep the 2024 approach of recriminalized possession plus county deflection programs, and fund them in 2027–29?
Said: Voted yes on HB 4002 in the House on February 29, 2024; her site calls for markedly more treatment and interrupting the fentanyl supply.
Spend more state money on wildfire prevention and firefighting?
Said: Voted no on HB 3940 on June 26, 2025, the bill that taxes oral nicotine products, raises the timber harvest tax and moves Rainy Day Fund interest to wildfire prevention funds.
Keep adding state limits on federal immigration enforcement, on top of Oregon's sanctuary law?
Said: Voted yes on HB 4138 on March 5, 2026; her statement cites policies protecting patients in hospitals, children in schools and people in their homes from the Trump administration.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which child-poverty and healthcare measures would you introduce next, and how would you evaluate them?
Sources (5)
- Reynolds · current campaign overviewCandidate statement · Undated campaign page; reviewed September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · DemocratElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Reynolds · prioritiesCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.
- Reynolds · aboutCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.
- Oregon Secretary of State · filed candidate statement · PDF page 78Candidate statement · Filed for the November 2026 state voters’ pamphlet; PDF printed September 9, 2026; reviewed September 21, 2026Written by the candidate or campaign for the state voters’ pamphlet, which is not published until September 29, 2026.