Lawmakers, unions reach compromise on ending reimbursements for state employees living outside Oregon
Public employee unions and state lawmakers have struck a deal on a proposal to stop state employees who moved out of state earlier in the pandemic from being reimbursed for traveling back to Oregon.
Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, introduced Senate Bill 853 to ban the state from paying for travel costs for employees who live out of the state. All 30 senators and nearly half the representatives in the House signed onto the bill, but it ran into opposition from employee unions earlier this month.
Knopp, Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Portland and employee unions reached a compromise, and the Senate Labor and Business Committee, which Taylor chairs, approved an amended version of the bill on Tuesday. It now heads to the full Senate for a vote.
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