The Oregon Court of Appeals granted a temporary stay on Governor Kate Brown’s ban on flavored tobacco vaping products just two days after the ban took effect. The ban created through a recent Executive Order [...]
Three AOC Steering Committees met jointly on January 8 during AOC Day. The impetus for the joint meeting was to increase awareness regarding the fact that much of AOC’s work crosses over “committee jurisdictional boundaries,” [...]
Today the federal government approved Oregon’s federal Medicaid waiver application to continue the Oregon Health Plan—Oregon’s Medicaid program—for another five years. The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) covers over 1 million low-income Oregonians who are struggling [...]
Contributed by: Mark Nystrom, AOC Energy, Environment & Land Use Policy Manager May 27, 2016 The Senate Interim Committee on Environment and Natural Resources focused primarily on air quality during its 3 hour hearing [...]
Contributed by: Stacy Michaelson, AOC Health and Human Services Policy Manager May 27, 2016 The Health & Human Services Committees were full of agency updates during the May 2016 Legislative Days. The Oregon Health [...]