FILE - The new president of the Oregon Senate, Sen. Rob Wagner, presides over the opening day of the legislative session on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, at the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Oregon state senators who accumulated 10 or more unexcused absences at the ...
Hundreds of bills awaiting action in the Oregon Senate are held in a bookshelf on May 23, 2023, as a boycott led by the state’s Republican senators continues to derail legislative progress.(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) "The governor recognizes that we are at a crucial point in ...
Each of the five state senators who filed suit — Sens. Tim Knopp, Daniel Bonham, Suzanne Weber, Dennis Linthicum and Lynn Findley — racked up more than 10 absences during the walkout that ground the 2023 legislative session to a halt. The longest in the Legislature’s history, the ...
(Oregon Capital Chronicle) Oregon lawmakers are debating firearms legislation this session, setting the stage for legislative battles and courtroom fights that could go to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proposals, all backed by Democratic lawmakers, would ban ghost guns that lack a serial number, pu...
sports betting in the state by lowering the legal gambling age from 21 to 18, allowing for online betting on college sports, changing the tax rates and allowing for a free market of companies to have online sportsbooks. But the bill never made it into a major legislative session for a ...
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on ethnicities at the state level a priority. Senate Education Chair Michael Dembrow, a Portland Democrat who is set to retire before the upcoming session, is working on a legislative concept to address this issue, though it’ll be up...
In Oregon,a billthat would have funded free school meals statewide died in the 2023 legislative session. But advocates are planning to renew that request in the 2025 session, said David Wieland, a policy advocate for Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon. It would cost ...
Oregon voters will decide this November whether cannabis industry workers should be allowed to unionize after lawmakers failed to adopt the reforms during the legislative session. Portland Pickles Baseball Team Is First to Offer THC Beverages at Games ...
Eleven Republicans in Oregon's state government walked out of a legislative session and now the governor is sending state police to go find them. KOIN-TV's Lisa Balick reports.