Oregon state senators on Thursday gutted this year’s legislation to bolster the rollout of a 2022 voter-approved gun control law currently being litigated, despite Democrats expending significant political capital to push a wide-ranging firearm safety bill through the House. In a unanimous vote, the Senate passed the watered-down legislation on Thursday, sending it back to […]
Less than a year after a bipartisan bill to streamline the payout process for exonerated Oregonians stalled, Oregon lawmakers are trying their hand at a narrower piece of legislation. Senate Bill 1515, sponsored by the Senate Judiciary Committee, aims to strengthen a 2022 Oregon law allowing those who have been wrongfully accused of a crime […]
Oregon lawmakers are weighing legislation for next year to regulate local law enforcement’s use of license plate reading software and streamline the compensation process for wrongfully convicted individuals. During a Monday hearing, the six-member Senate Interim Judiciary Committee heard about use of automated license plate reading technology across the state alongside broader efforts to target […]
Democrats will remain in charge of both chambers of the Oregon Legislature when the new session opens Jan. 9, but will lack the 60% majorities required to pass revenue-raising measures on their own.
SALEM — The twice-a-year ritual of resetting clocks would come to an end under two bills introduced in the Oregon Senate. A Senate committee held a brief discussion of the issue Tuesday, but it did not vote on the bills.
