(See the sidebar below for details about the bills.) Senate Bill 348would build upon Measure 114 by requiring gun purchasers to obtain a permit and undergo a safety course. It would enact requirements resembling those in Measure 114, while adding timelines. For example, the permit system to p...
Oregon Legislature examines new bills addressing pertinent issuesMeghann Cuniff
The state legislature approved the legalization of greyhound betting in 1933. In 1989, voters approved the Oregon Lottery. After the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act became law, the first of Oregon’s tribal casinos, Seven Feathers Casino Resort, opened in Canyonville in 1994. In 2017, an Oregon st...
That approach could soon be a reality statewide.A billthat passed the Legislature in its final hours last week directs the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission to create a direct admissions pathway for Oregon’s 24 community col...
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 ...
The Oregon Supreme Court has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by Republican state senators who boycotted the Legislature earlier this year and want to run for reelection.
Oregon - Education, Universities, Colleges: The first free public school system in Oregon was created by the territorial legislature in 1849. In 1951 the legislature established a board of education, appointed by the governor. The constitution provides f
Further, until the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution (1913), election to the Senate was indirect, by the state legislatures. They are now elected directly by voters of each state. The Senate shares with the House of Representatives responsibility for all lawmaking within the United States...
s staff of wage investigators had decreased over the last two decades, according to a 2019 analysis by the Oregon Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit that is one of the members of Oregon’s Coalition to Stop Wage Theft. In the last two years, the Legislature h...
People who are currently or were previously homeless wrote the Legislature to support the bill. “There is absolutely no good reason to perform camp sweeps without proper notice. Performing a sweep effectively evicts people from their homes. Personal belongings are often confiscated and throw...