Lawmakers OK a slew of bills to change police practices July 01 2021 But key figure says further efforts are up to state and local agencies and officers themselves. Oregon lawmakers continued during their recently concluded session to build on the measures they passed a year ago to overhaul policing practices. They passed more than a dozen bills, adding to what they did during a June 2020 special session Gov. Kate Brown called after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. His murder by a now-former police officer triggered nationwide protests about police conduct toward racial and ethnic minorities. Brown has signed several of the bills, and a few have taken effect already. She is expected to sign all of them.