Content Tagged 'Oregon Legislature'

The Democrats in charge of writing a new state budget say they're casting aside proposed tax increases and public-employee pension cuts and will begin advancing early pieces of a spending plan for the next two years.

The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill barring bosses from demanding employees or job applicants turn over their Facebook passwords and other social media login information.

The state Legislature is considering honoring brewer's yeast as the state microbe.

Discussions about funding for schools, safety-net programs and all the other functions of state government will take a big step forward this week.

The Oregon House is preparing to take up two key pieces of the Democrats' budget proposal.

Oregon lawmakers don't want the state to get stuck with the bill if a wave-energy company installs equipment off shore and then goes belly up.

Reshaping the foreclosure dialogue between customers and their banks, Oregon lawmakers are spreading the word about a new bill affording new rights to homeowners in hot water. Video

Oregon lawmakers are mulling a bill to make defibrillators within a one minute walk at all times. Video

Closing Oregon's legislative session in Salem, lawmakers have passed a bill that will likely help fund more than a dozen capital improvement projects at community colleges across the state, including Lane Community College. Video

A plea from the Eugene Police Department was heard on the floor of the Oregon Senate Tuesday. Video

Public health officials and county commissioners are weighing in on a new proposal in front of the Oregon Legislature to let counties add another tax on tobacco. Video