Oregon’s Government Ethics Commission has opened a full investigation into state Rep. Lamar Wise after a complaint alleged he failed to disclose a $25,000 stipend from Seeding Justice, a Portland nonprofit involved in state policy work. Commissioners voted 8-0 during a Friday executive session to proceed with the investigation. The complaint, filed in August, concerns Wise’s 2026 statement of economic interest. Commission investigator Daniel Pacheco said Wise’s original form did not list Seeding Justice in a section requiring officials to identify income from organizations that could have a legislative or administrative interest in their work. Pacheco said the omission may not have breached the separate rule requiring officials to identify income sources that account for more than 10% of household income. Wise’s filing did identify the Oregon American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Unite Oregon as sources above that threshold. Seeding Justice has had a role in state-funded initiatives. Oregon lawmakers selected the nonprofit to administer a $15 million fund created in 2022 to protect abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In 2023, state environmental officials also selected the group to distribute millions of dollars for climate protection efforts; Seeding Justice later withdrew from that work. Wise said he has amended his financial disclosure to include the income and is working with ethics officials to resolve the complaint. He called the omission an honest mistake and said the investigator he has been communicating with recommended that the case be closed with a letter of education. The commission’s decision to open a full investigation does not itself establish that Wise violated the law. Wise, a Democrat, was appointed to the House in November 2025 by county commissioners representing the 48th District, which includes parts of Southeast Portland, Damascus and Clackamas County. He filled the seat of Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, who died after battling cancer. The seat is on the ballot next month. Wise faces Republican Andrew Morrison, a software-security salesperson, in a district where Nguyễn won her most recent election by more than six percentage points.