Top Democrats in the Oregon Legislature are working furiously to hammer out a budget of historic proportions, as lawmakers hurtle toward the end of the session. With less than three weeks until the constitutional deadline for lawmakers to wrap up, Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward said she and her co-chairs on the Ways and Means committee are “really down to crunch time.” “We have to make .
There are less than three weeks until the state’s constitutional deadline to establish a budget. With federal aid and large tax revenues, the state plans to spend approximately $3 billion more during the 2021-2023 cycle.
With Senate Bill 5, lawmakers hope to bring Oregon into the growing number of states allowing student athletes compensation for the use of their name, image, and likeness.
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Lawmakers grind their way toward sine die June 02 2021
With two dozen days are left in the 2021 session, a frenzy of activity expected to move legislation. Sine die is imminent, declared Senate President Peter Courtney on Tuesday, using one of the secret decoder ring-needed terms of the Oregon Legislature.
Translation: We re almost through for 2021.
But not so close you can t pop a last-minute bill into the hopper, which Courtney did Tuesday morning, June 1, with a bill to ban horse racing in Oregon.
With just 25 days left before the Oregon constitution requires the Legislature to shut down the 2021 session, Courtney s dual actions reflected the frenzy of sometimes contrary activity in the House and Senate.