(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
we have 3,000 bills and in a short session, we have 300 bills. But in a long session, we’ve got six months to work and in a short session, we’ve got six weeks to work them. So it’s a scramble.”
VermontYes (Launch expected 2023-2024)No VirginiaYesYes WashingtonNoYes West VirginiaYesYes WisconsinNoYes WyomingYesYes As lawmakers introduce new bills to eliminate the bans on sports betting in their respective states, the landscape is expected to keep changing, and we foresee that more states wil...
There were nine Oregon Republicans and an independent who clocked at least 10 absences during this year's legislative session in order to block Democratic bills covering abortion, transgender health care and gun rights.The walkout preventeda quorum, holding up bills in th...
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, ...
And two bills with vocal support from Oregon students also stalled. A bill requiring a review of Oregon’s Higher Education system and the effectiveness of university governing boardsdied in committee. And astudent aid packagethat would have ...
House Bill 3124 passed by a vote of 39-16 and now moves to the Senate. Rep. John Lively, a Springfield Democrat, said while lawmakers are working on various bills relating to housing and homelessness this session, this particular piece of legislation “addresses some other aspects of ...
We asked a couple of our Oregon State Legislature representatives to offer their thoughts on the recently ended 2024 “Short Session” that began on February 5, and ended on March 7, and specifically what affects us in Cedar Mill. Read More Arts & Entertainment April 2024 April 1, 2024 Ar...
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...