AROUND OREGON: Special interests covered travel costs for Oregon legislators. Legislators explain were work, not play
Author: By Julia Shumway – Oregon Capital Chronicle
Winter road maintenance will continue with $19 million promise from Kotek, Legislature
OREGON NEWS: More highways will get cleared of snow after all with promise of millions more for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Gov. Tina Kotek announced a deal to put $19 million more into the state agency.
Gov. Tina Kotek plans to seek $600 million more for housing, homelessness in 2024
AROUND OREGON: Gov. Tina Kotek wants legislators to pour $500 million into boosting Oregon’s housing stock. She also said she will seek more money for child care and summer learning.
Oregon unions weigh in on senators’ walkout lawsuit
Groups that advocated for a new law to punish lawmarkers for walkouts are weighing in against a lawsuit filed by Republican senators who say the law was poorly worded. But voters knew what they were doing, argue the groups in a brief.
Oregon lawmakers start trying to tackle state’s addiction crisis
In a four-hour session, a new legislative panel heard testimony about the wide-ranging impacts of addiction, with drugs like fentanyl challenging treatment in every part of Oregon.
New Oregon House GOP leader Helfrich seeks unity, pragmatic solutions
House Republicans chose Rep. Jeff Helfrich, R-Hood River, as the new leader last week after former leader Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville, stepped down.
Survivor, Oregon Senate GOP leader praise new sex crime law
Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, also wants to bring back a bill requiring more thorough assessments of the risk sex offenders will rape again.
Oregon rent increases will be capped at 10% in 2024
Landlords subject to Oregon’s rent control law can increase rents 10% in 2024, the Department of Administrative Services announced Tuesday. That’s the maximum allowed under a new law passed this year that sought to prevent most double-digit rent increases in years of high inflation. A 2019 law capped rent increases[Read More…]
Bentz supports Biden impeachment inquiry, Chavez-DeRemer distances herself
Oregon Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz serves on one of the three committees involved in a newly launched impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Republican senators, attorneys seek Oregon high court review of anti-walkout law
Republican senators whose walkouts stalled the last legislative session are asking the Oregon Supreme Court to review the voter-approved law that now prevents them from seeking reelection.