In the legislature — 2024 session Our state's path towards racial justice, civil rights and civil liberties will be shaped in Oregon's 2024 legislative session — from February 5 to March 10, 2024. Explore our policy priorities and take action with us!
(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 ...
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 ...
As part of the deal to end the walkout in June with barely one week left in the legislative session, Democrats agreed to change language concerning parental notifications for abortion. Democrats also agreed to drop several amendments on a gun bill that would have incr...
“Where direct admissions is really attractive is when it’s outreach to students who maybe are first-generation, that haven’t necessarily thought of themselves as college material,” Dembrow said in an interview before the legislative sessi...
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Meanwhile, a group of Republican lawmakers are hoping to roll back some of the state’s sanctuary protections in next year’s legislative session, according to reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sixteen Republican lawmakers traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border this sprin...
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.
Oregon Voters to Consider Ballot Proposal Allowing Cannabis Industry Workers to Unionize Wed / Aug 7th 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. ...