(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
At the end of the hallway, I arrived at the office of David Gomberg, D-Otis, who serves as the House District 10 representative in the Oregon Legislature. It’s a district that covers all of Lincoln County and for the past year part of west Benton and small slice of Lane counties. Se...
The Supreme Court granted state-level legislatures the freedom to decide to allow sportsbooks to operate in their state when it repealed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) on May 14th, 2018. Since then, sports betting has gradually gained acceptance, and leading sportsboo...
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 ...
Supreme Court ruled that government funding for chaplains by state legislatures was constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States. The federal government in 1791 had authorized a hired chaplain for Congress precisely three days before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, ...
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 coll...
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 thrown...
See ourfull websitefor all the forecast details. Our presentation slides for the forecast release to the Legislature are below. Demographics,Employment,Housing,Income,Miscellaneous,News,Revenue| Tags:2023-25,2024,budget,business formation,business investment,capital,cat,corporate activity tax,corporate exc...
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...