Glass Half Full The Natural Resources Subcommittee on June 8 moved budget-related items of the Water Resources Department (WRD) to the full Joint Ways and Means Committee. There was good news from the perspective of [...]
On June 7th the Senate Committee on Finance & Revenue unanimously sent House Bill (HB) 2573A to the full Senate for passage. One part of HB 2573A attempts to make the process of reporting business personal property [...]
Members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees toured the Marion County Jail and Marion County Circuit Annex Court on June 6, getting a firsthand glimpse of jail operations. Marion County elected officials including Commissioner [...]
County Assessors Get Help With a Difficult Statute After improvements offered by Polk County Assessor Doug Schmidt, representing the Oregon State Association of County Assessors (OSACA), were adopted by the Senate Committee on Finance & Revenue in [...]
Life Flight Network Spawned Magistrate Case ORS 307.022 provides that a limited liability corporation (LLC) wholly owned by one or more nonprofit corporations shall qualify for a property tax exemption or special assessment if all [...]
This week marks the end of week 18 of the Legislative Session and the final policy bill deadline with all policy committees essentially shutting down Friday. If a policy bill was not passed out, or [...]
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 [...]