A couple of bills AOC Energy, Environment, and Land Use (EELU) Steering Committee is advocating for were sidelined, one continues to wait, and a couple of agency budgets began to move. BIOMASS Senate Bill (SB) [...]
Senate Bill (SB) 307, which would allow for social consumption of cannabis is now on the -3 amendments. There was a public hearing on May 30 on these amendments. A number of proponents of the [...]
House Bill (HB) 2377, Representative Brock Smith’s affordable housing bill, is still alive in the legislative process. The bill passed out of the House Human Services and Housing Committee on April 25 with a referral [...]
County Veteran Service Officers Get Results in 2016: Direct Payments to Oregon Veterans Increased by 8.7 percent from 2015 to 2016 According to new data released by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the federal [...]
The Joint Committee on Transportation Preservation and Modernization will debate the initial draft of amendments to House Bill (HB) 2017, which will constitute the massive transportation funding bill that has been developed throughout the 2017 [...]
Lane Joins 13 Oregon Counties That Have Already Passed Stepping Up Resolutions On a unanimous vote, Lane County Commissioners, passed a Stepping Up Resolution on May 23, 2017. The resolution formalized ongoing efforts to [...]
HB 2770 Would Create Task Force to Determine Appropriate Incentives The House Committee on Revenue on May 25th amended and passed out House Bill (HB) 2770, which repeals the "gigabit exemption" from property taxes adopted [...]
This week marks the end of week 17 of the Legislative Session. Next Friday is the deadline for bills to pass out of their second chamber policy committees to move forward before the end of [...]
Senate Bill (SB) 235, which was originally a tobacco retail licensure (TRL) bill, continues through the process. The bill was “gut and stuffed” in the Senate Health Care Committee to simply put in statute a [...]
A bill that would authorize creation of a new type of special district, a children's district, aptly numbered Senate Bill (SB) 123B, passed the Senate May 22nd on a vote of 18-10. AOC joined the League of [...]