Tag Archives: House Joint Resolution (HJR)

Oregon ‘stumbling into future’ on wildfire funding, lawmaker says

A Democratic proposals to increase wildfire funding through property taxes is dead and one to tax timber is on life support. Democratic lawmakers approached the February short session intending to create sustainable wildfire funding but their options have narrowed as the state nears another wildfire season with inadequate funding. The Oregon Department of Forestry and […]
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Oregon’s looming disasters call for wholesale change to fund, boost our preparedness | Opinion

Oregon must accelerate efforts to prepare for a catastrophic earthquake as well as take action to mitigate wildfires and other disasters, writes Rep. Paul Evans, who represents House District 20 in the Oregon Legislature. Two bills – one that would ask voters to approve a statewide property tax and another bill laying out the framework […]
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Oregon House resolution may end walkouts; voters would get final say

A resolution in the Oregon Legislature could potentially bring an end to extended walkouts like the record six-week boycott last year that brought passage of bills to a halt. Joint House Resolution 202 would do away with the requirement that two-thirds of lawmakers have to be present to vote on bills. The resolution would change […]
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Measure proposes simple majorities for lawmakers to do business

If Rep. Khanh Pham of Portland and other lawmakers have their way, Oregon voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to require a simple majority of members to conduct business in the Oregon House and Senate. House Joint Resolution 202 is pending in the House Rules Committee, which is not bound by the deadlines for the […]
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Oregon lawmakers would be able to remove the governor under a measure headed to voters

Oregon’s constitution has no impeachment process for statewide elected officials. That could change next year. Oregon lawmakers would gain the ability to remove the governor and other statewide elected officials, under a proposal lawmakers sent to voters on Sunday. House Joint Resolution 16 unanimously passed the Senate and will appear on the November 2024 ballot. […]
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Oregon voters could be asked to give Legislature power to impeach

A Republican legislative push to ask voters to give the Legislature the power to remove statewide elected officials from office moved out of committee Tuesday as part of a deal Democrats made to get lawmakers back to work. If it passes the full House and Senate and is then approved by voters in the 2024 […]
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With time running out, Oregon Democrats float (another) idea to end walkouts

In a sign they’re ready to acknowledge their last plan didn’t work, legislative Democrats now insist quorum rules should change. With just 11 days left in Oregon’s 2023 legislative session and negotiations to end a Senate walkout on a knife’s edge, Democrats are lobbing a rhetorical hand grenade. More than 40 legislative Democrats have signed […]
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Public hearing unlikely on Oregon independent redistricting proposal

Supporters of a proposal to hand Oregon’s redistricting process to an independent commission hoped lawmakers would consider and take input on the plan during the five-month legislative session.With less than three weeks left, it appears lawmakers will go home without holding a single public hearing on the commission proposal, House Joint Resolution 7. Source: Public […]
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Editorial: Three bills would shift Oregon’s political calculus

Given the raw political nerves of the country, could the 2020 Oregon Legislature please be somewhat boring? No walkouts. Certainly no mobs. Lots of good old-fashioned legislative debate. Legislators have already drafted hundreds of bills. Source: Editorial: Three bills would shift Oregon’s political calculus | Opinion | bendbulletin.com

Opinion: A family divided by politics, but united on fighting climate change

One hundred-plus days of civic unrest. More than 1 million acres burned by forest fires. An epidemic of homelessness, magnified by a global pandemic. And a state government increasingly incapable of acting on any one of these crises, paralyzed by the divisions among its own electorate. Source: Opinion: A family divided by politics, but united […]
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