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Republicans have deployed tactics to block a pair of hard-fought bills that could ensure they won't pass before the session ends.
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Oregon lawmakers have reached a deal that appears likely to give state campaign finance limits for the first time in decades.
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Many public hiking trails that closed this past year in response to a civil lawsuit could start reopening again after Oregon lawmakers voted Tuesday to pass temporary liability protections for landowners.
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Earlier this week, Senate Bill 1548, the measure that would have put Oregon on permanent standard time, narrowly passed the state Senate. But on Tuesday, Democratic House Speaker Daniel Rayfield’s office confirmed the bill was dead for this session.
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The $376 million package is the latest statewide effort to bolster housing production.
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As the Legislature speeds to adjournment, a proposal to regulate political giving is still being negotiated.
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State estimates show 1,333 people will be convicted of drug possession and 533 could go to jail every year under the bill approved by Oregon lawmakers last week.
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The voter-approved Measure 110 is nearing its end as the Legislature sends a bill unwinding Oregon's drug decriminalization toward the governor's desk.
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Oregon lawmaker gets few answers about contractor that put foster kids in unlicensed short-term rentOregon’s head of human services said the state is conducting an audit of its child welfare contracting process and considering an external review in response to issues highlighted by OPB last fall.
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Oregon state senators approve more than $350 million to help state’s housing and homelessness crisisThe money would boost housing production, create a new state agency, help fund existing homeless shelters and give cities a one-time chance to bypass state land-use laws to build housing.
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Oregon's House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would recriminalize drug possession in the state, with 51 members voting to approve the bill. The bill would make possession of small amounts of drugs a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.
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The bill would exempt from state income taxes any money received as a result of a wildfire-related lawsuit.