Watch Out; Predictions for the 2024 Short Session

Posted on January 31, 2024 by BJ | 0 Comments

Excerpts from Rep. Scharf’s newsletter on 1-31-24… Measure 110 Plan:  The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response released a framework  on Jan. 23rd in respond to soaring overdose deaths and widespread open-air drug use on Oregon streets. However, it fell short of delivering on what voters are saying in every poll – Recriminalize drugs.   (Willamette Week). The Democrat…

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SB 3 One credit for “future planning” to receive diploma

Posted on July 31, 2023 by BJ

VOTE: NO – Signed into law by Gov.Kotek 7-31-23, effective 1-1-24

HB 2699 Mandated minimum wage increases

Posted on June 25, 2023 by BJ

VOTE: NO
Died In Committee

HJR 201 Ending the emergency

Posted on March 4, 2022 by BJ

VOTE:YES
Died in Committee

SB 1516 prohibits Covid-19 vaccination mandate

Posted on March 4, 2022 by BJ

VOTE: YES
Died In Committee
Declared an Emergency

HB 4011 Child Welfare Cultural Equity Program

Posted on March 4, 2022 by BJ

VOTE: NO
Died in Committee

Rep. Reschke bills: Stop endless emergencies. End medical discrimination.

Posted on January 29, 2022 by BJ | 2 Comments

State Representative Reschke announced he will introduce two bills for the 2022 short legislative session, which begins in Salem on February 1st. End the State of Emergency HJR 201 is a resolution, that upon passage, would immediately terminate the Governor’s state of emergency declaration that first began March 2020. The resolution does not require the Governor’s signature to take effect,…

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NFIB Lawsuit against OSHA’s vaccine mandate

Posted on November 13, 2021 by BJ | 0 Comments

NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) filed a legal challenge against the Biden Administration’s emergency temporary standard, which would mandate businesses with 100 or more employees require workers take the COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing and wear masks while at work. NFIB filed a petition for review at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit arguing…

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SB 762 Reducing Risk of Wildfires via Mandates

Posted on July 19, 2021 by BJ

VOTE: NO
Signed into Law by Gov Brown

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