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SALEM — Nearly 3,000 teachers in Oregon schools serving students with the highest needs could soon get paid to learn more about the science of reading.

We're tracking about 30 bills at the Oregon Legislature which has one more week to work and then the session is finished.

This week Indiana's bill continued to advance in the House (after previously passing the Senate), lawmakers voted bills out of committee in Iowa and Oklahoma, and new bills were introduced in Maine, Utah and Wisconsin.

Lawmakers are finalizing plans for spending hundreds of millions of dollars in unexpected revenue on a range of issues.

The legislative session heats up, Portland City Council on parking, and the aftermath of a deadly weekend.

Keypoint: This week Indiana’s bill continued to advance in the House (after previously passing the Senate), lawmakers voted bills out of committee in Iowa and Oklahoma, and new bills...

We track nearly 30 proposals in the Oregon Legislature, including some that have died, showing where they are in the legislative process.

Plan would add public defenders in counties hardest hit by shortage as state continues to violate constitutional right to counsel

Oregon lawmakers have agreed to spend a new plan to patch the state’s failing public defense system, which for months has failed to meet its constitutional obligations.

This week new bills were introduced in Arizona, Iowa, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin, bills were voted out of committee in Florida, New York, and Ohio, and there was more movement on the VCDPA amendment bills.