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ALERT: SHOWDOWN ON THE SENATE FLOOR!
100% Walkout
All Bills should be lawful. You do not get to pick and choose what laws you want to follow. Democrats do not care about laws, Oregon’s 13 are choosing to follow the law, that allows them to deny quorum. Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp on Oregon’s 13 “
Senator Knopp and the 12 other Senators remain at work, holding meetings, and talking to the public, media, and their constituents every day. This constitutional protest comes down to an unlawful, uncompromising agenda pushed by the hyper-partisan legislative Democrats that we simply will not stand for.
Senate Republicans and Independents are committed to passing substantially bipartisan budgets and bills this Session. Democrats are holding up the process from moving forward at this point.
“Senate Republicans are engaged in a peaceful, constitutional protest of the unlawful, uncompromising, and unconstitutional agenda the untrustworthy and deeply partisan Senate President has brought forward. We commit to Oregonians and our Democrat colleagues that we will return before the constitutional sine die to suspend readings and rules on lawful, substantially bipartisan budgets and bills. While Democrats are laser focused on the issues that do nothing but divide, we are focused on the real issues Oregonians care most about – homelessness, affordable housing, public safety, cost of living, job creation, and fully-funded education. We are committed to getting the People’s work done, not facilitating an extreme, unlawful, unconstitutional agenda.” Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp (R-Bend)
Citizen Involvement. Your emails, complaints, reports and pressure matters. Why do you think Shemia Fagan resigned? Why are Democrat bureaucrats under investigations? You got involved. Keep up the pressure. Here is a link to a new ‘How To’ booklet on citizen action somebody prepared this past week.
6-10-2023
Senate President Wagner
Unlawful, Uncompromising, Unconstitutional Actions
The 2023 session has been punctuated with mostly hyper-partisan chicanery. Here is a list of how Senate Rules, statutes, and the Constitution have been purposefully violated and ignored by Senate President Rob Wagner:
1. DISENFRANCHISING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION WHILE VIOLATING OREGON LAW:
Rob Wagner has allowed bills to pass that violate the Oregon Constitution Article 4 Section 21, Senate Rule 13.02, Oregon Statute ORS 171.134, and Legislative Councils Form and Style Manual (chapter 8). He has done this despite being made fully aware that each bill summary is required to comply with legal reading standards so the public can better participate. Even a judge said he believed Rob Wagner and the Democrats were violating this law. By violating these laws, the Senate President has abandoned the rule of law—a cornerstone to a healthy democracy.
2. PARTISAN TESTIMONY TIME CONSTRAINTS:
Rob Wagner has allowed certain committee chairs to pack the agendas so people have little time to testify. This stifles public input. At the same time, he has allowed certain committee chairs to prioritize democrats special interest groups with much more time to testify. This has a chilling effect on public participation and is antidemocratic.
3. REFUSAL TO HEAR FROM EXPERT TESTIMONY:
Rob Wagner allows certain committee chairs to refuse invited testimony from Republicans. In one instance, one of Rob Wagner’s appointed committee chairs refused to give meaningful time to a PhD who drove from Montana to talk on his expertise. This is unacceptable and speaks to the Senate Presidents persistent partisanship. Once again, this is not leadership encouraging healthy democratic participation (See Exhibit A - refusal emails to Senator Linthicum).
4. TURNING NONPARTISAN STAFF INTO PARTISANS:
Rob Wagner has allowed nonpartisan staff to be used inappropriately for partisan reasons. He allowed chairs of committees to use the LPRO staff to draft measures and amendments without informing the rest of the committee members. This makes it difficult for LPRO to remain independent of political partisanship as they are torn between informing the committee they serve, and the Chair Rob Wagner appointed. They have done this to the point where they are in violation of Senate Rule 13.11 that requires any committee measure or amendment to NOT be treated confidentially. (See Exhibit B - Senate Republican and Independent letter March 24, 2023.)
5. NO LEGISLATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BAD IDEAS:
Rob Wagner has allowed certain chairs of committees to run rampant diminishing public participation and accountability. For example, the number of committee bills and committee amendments in the Senate Judiciary committee, far exceed any others in the last decade. (See Exhibit C). This process allows them to no longer put their names on legislation they introduce. The chair of the committee thought this was funny at the beginning of session. This has become an increasing abuse of the legislative process and a problem for accountability. When Senate President Wagner allows this to happen by his appointed committee chairs, he is turning a blind eye to transparency and the public is uninformed of who is introducing legislative concepts. This increased pattern of behavior makes a mockery of Senate Rule 12.01(1): "Every measure introduced in the Senate shall bear the name of the chief sponsor(s) and shall comply with ORS 171.127."
6. ELIMINATING PUBLIC HEARING:
Rob Wagner has allowed an extremely partisan bill, SB 393, to pass out of committee without a public hearing. There is no greater example of driving democracy into a ditch by allowing bills to pass without holding a public hearing.
7. BYPASSING PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Rob Wagner has used the budgeting process to fast track the most controversial bills—HB 2002 and HB 2005. In doing this, he has purposefully denied the Senate and the public a voice through policy debate. This is driving democracy into a ditch.
8. UNACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICE:
Rob Wagner has completely ignored legitimate complaints that Democrats are violating Oregon’s Constitution by simultaneously holding two lucrative government positions (Article II, section 10) and in violation of Oregon’s Constitutional separation of power (Article III, section 1). (See Exhibit D Attorney General Opinion to Brady Adams February 10, 1998 and Exhibit E, LC opinion to Senator Boquist May 22, 2023.)
9. CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF RETALIATION:
Rob Wagner is now violating Republican and Independent Legislators Constitutional rights to free speech, peaceful protest and to practice their sincerely held religious beliefs.
10. SILENCING OREGONIANS WE REPRESENT:
Rob Wagner killed the entire Senate Republican Equitable Oregon agenda. He did this despite Republicans and Independents representing nearly 2 million Oregonians and roughly 90% of Oregon’s natural resource lands. Later, Republicans attempted to bring 75 bills to the floor for consideration and Rob Wagner led his Caucus in voting no on each of these critical discussions. This is not good faith bipartisanship.
Democratic majority rule is constrained by laws and the provisions of our Constitution. When the majority breaks these laws and willingly chooses to ignore them, they are in violation of their sacred oath of office and trampling on the very mechanisms that maintain a healthy representative democracy. It is our duty to protect these mechanisms of the law and vigorously hold them accountable. Rob Wagner is driving representative democracy off a cliff. We will not merely be a speed bump to these reckless and partisan violations of our laws.
Ending The Current Quorum Denial is Easy
The conditions for Republicans and Independents to return to the Legislature and allow further legislation to pass are extremely modest. A sliver of bipartisanship is all we've sought, and we can worry about solving corruption on another day.
Here are a few examples required for a return:
• Make the Bill summaries Constitutional, and follow the readability standards set by law.
• Stop HB 2005 and other unnecessary gun bills like SB 348. Agree no further attacks on the 2nd Amendment in Oregon through at least 2027.
• Stop HB 2002 and its assault against Parent's Rights. Parents and legal guardians should come first, not state bureaucrats.
• Agree to return to taxpayers their full due of $5.5 billion (AKA - Kicker monies) in the form of check this year.
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“[The purpose of the written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.”
6-8-2023
Democrats are Holding the Session Hostage
My colleagues and I are willing to return to the Legislature to work on bipartisan bills and the state budget. But the Democrats in control would rather sacrifice bipartisan legislation on wildfire, behavioral health, housing, and education in favor of an agenda that is unlawful, uncompromising, and unconstitutional. HB 2002 is an attack on the innocence of children and Oregon families. They are holding the issues that matter most to hard-working Oregonians hostage.
My quote in a recent New York Times article about the walkout: “‘Taking this stand was a moral obligation for me,’ Mr. Bonham said. He said that when he left the Senate chamber, he purposely left a Bible on his desk there, open to a passage in which Jesus says that anyone who causes a child to stumble should perhaps be drowned with a millstone around his or her neck.”
The Bible does not mince words in Matthew 18:6, for a reason. Children must be protected. In walking out, I am fighting to protect Oregon children and families, and the rights of parents and guardians
Importance of an Independent Redistricting Council
Right now is a good opportunity to point out the cost of partisan gerrymandering. As I mentioned in a prior newsletter, Oregon tends to vote for Democrats on the federal level, but that’s not the case with statewide issues and candidates – where we are more balanced.
For example, our current governor won with only 47% of the vote – meaning more people wanted someone else to be governor. This, despite the fact that she spent more than $8 million more than her closest opponent to squeak out the victory last Fall; a sign that we are a more balanced state than some think.
Yet our redistricting process was painful and partisan, as special interests and carve outs were prioritized over Oregonians. We ended up with a map that does not reflect fair representation in Oregon. The maps have Republicans packed into districts and Democrats spread out, disproportionately cementing blue majorities for the next ten years.
This creates conditions where Democrats do not even need to fake “bipartisanship”; they can, and do, scoff at minority party attempts as we advocate for our constituents and hard-working Oregonians
Look no further than how Senate President Rob Wagner has behaved during the current walkout; by pushing HB 2002, he has prioritized the Democrats’ income streams from their special interests over the nuclear family. |
A fair district map would reflect the diverse and competitive makeup of Oregon’s electorate. We need to remove partisanship from the maps as best we can, and an independent redistricting committee will help move us forward.
Democrat Corruption
Democrat leaders’ corruption knows no limits. I think it’s important to distinguish that I’m speaking of the party’s leaders, not its people.
The Attorney General has too-little-too-late recused herself from the investigation pertaining to the corruption and potential Class C Felony by the Democrat Party of Oregon for accepting and falsifying a massive donation from failed cryptocurrency business FTX.
Senate President Rob Wagner literally – I’m not kidding – declared Republican and Independent senators will be fined $325 per day if we are not around to keep their partisan gravy train rolling. Their “Banana Republic” strategy is in full swing.
Remember: Democrats accepted stacks of cash, upwards of $10,000 in campaign donations, from La Mota, a troubled cannabis business. They should have known
that taking massive sums of cash from a company that owes taxes to the state was a corrupt, bad idea.
These same elected Democrats in Salem want to pass legislation that would give small dollar donations an 8 to 1 match from the state (your tax dollars), it is obvious our state needs meaningful campaign finance reform.
This session alone, the Democrats have violated the Constitution in numerous ways. For example:
Eliminating Public Hearings: Senate President Rob Wagner has allowed an extremely partisan bill, SB 393, to pass out of committee without a public hearing. There is no greater example of driving democracy into a ditch by allowing bills to pass without holding a public hearing.
Silencing Oregonians We Represent: Rob Wagner killed the entire Senate Republican Equitable Oregon agenda. He did this despite Republicans and Independents representing nearly 2 million Oregonians and roughly 90% of Oregon’s natural resource lands. Later, Republicans attempted to bring 75 bills to the floor for consideration and Rob Wagner led his Caucus in voting no on each of these critical discussions. This is not good faith bipartisanship.
Refusing Common Sense Bipartisanship: Rob Wagner refuses Republican and Independent legislators requests to set up a bipartisan, bicameral, even-numbered committee on oversight and accountability (See Exhibit F – Republican joint letter April 18, 2023).
Ending The Current Walkout Should Be Easy:
The conditions for Republicans and Independents to return to the Legislature and allow further legislation to pass are extremely modest. A sliver of bipartisanship is all we’ve sought, and we can worry about solving corruption on another day. Here are a few examples required for a return:
-Stop HB 2005 and other gun bills like SB 348. Agree no attacks on the 2nd Amendment in Oregon through at least 2027.
-Amend HB 2002 to make more bipartisan, at least keep parents as #1 guardian of children, not State.
-Agree to pass common sense bills like SB 990 (return full $5.5B+ Kicker in form of check this year.)
–Senator Daniel Bonham
Democrats Resort to Lies to Push Extreme Policy Priorities
Republicans Remain Committed to Accountability and Transparency
SALEM, Ore. – In a statement released this morning, Senate Democrats made a false statement that “Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp admits walkout is about abortion and gun safety legislation,” citing an article published in Oregon Capital Chronicle on Sunday.
In the article, Leader Knopp reiterated that Wagner is knowingly and willfully violating the readability standard explicitly laid out in Senate Rules, Oregon statute, and the Oregon Constitution. He stated: “They’ve chosen to try to force unlawful bills, unconstitutional bills across the floor, and we are not going to allow that to happen.”
Leader Knopp told the reporter that Republicans are willing to end the protest if staff rewrites bill summaries to comply with the law, and if Democrats set aside their most extreme bills whose summaries similarly don’t comply with the law. All Session long, Republicans have criticized the extreme policy priorities pushed by the majority party. We have repeatedly asked that we get back to passing bills that fix real problems facing our constituen. This is nothing new.
Activist special interest groups have continuously lied by claiming Republicans are attempting to “take away abortion rights and deny marriage equality”.
“One thing has become clear: Democrats are unwilling to come to the table and instead, they are doubling down on an unlawful, far-left extreme agenda. Abortion is codified into Oregon law and same-sex marriage is settled. To suggest that Republicans are attempting to restrict abortion access and marriage equality by protesting is a desperate lie. Continuing to shield the truth from Oregonians isn’t going to solve anything,” concluded Knopp.
Below, are the bills “scheduled” for Public Hearing for the coming week, if there is a quorum. Hold onto your chairs, there are more bills headed our way in the days to come. We need ALL of you to make a difference.
WE are going to NEED ALL OF YOU come election time to HOLD the seats we currently have and gain more. That’s the ONLY way we can stop this madness… by being the MAJORITY! It’s time.
Please Review the Schedule, bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
Monday - June 12, 2023
There are no public hearings scheduled at this writing.
Please Review the Schedule, bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
Bills in Ways & Means 9:30 AM Work Session
HB 3409 -Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study climate. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment not later than September 15, 2024. (Senator Dembrow, carrier)
Read Testimonies
Featured Testimony: Government Expansion & Waste of Tax $$
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Presiding Chair (Co-Chair): Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Committee Co-Chair: Rep. Tawna Sanchez
Co-Vice Chair: Sen. Fred Girod
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. David Gomberg
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. Greg Smith
Member: Sen. Dick Anderson
Member: Sen. Winsvey Campos
Member: Sen. Michael Dembrow
Member: Sen. Lynn Findley
Member: Sen. Lew Frederick
Member: Sen. Bill Hansell
Member: Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin
Member: Sen. Tim Knopp
Member: Sen. Janeen Sollman
Member: Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson
Member: Rep. Jami Cate
Member: Rep. Paul Evans
Member: Rep. Rick Lewis
Member: Rep. Paul Holvey
Member: Rep. Susan McLain
Member: Rep. Khanh Pham
Member: E. Werner Reschke
Member: Rep. Andrea Valderrama
SB 80 A – Requires State Forestry Department to study wildfire. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to natural resources no later than September 15, 2024.] Makes certain changes related to statewide wildfire hazard map. Instructs State Board of Forestry to establish four classes of wildland-urban interface. Establishes certain requirements for financial assistance related to defensible space. Establishes Landscape Resiliency Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to State Forestry Department for purposes related to landscape resiliency. Specifies permissible sources of moneys in Community Risk Reduction Fund. Makes certain changes related to cleaner air spaces. Makes certain changes related to Wildfire Programs Advisory Council. Directs Department of State Fire Marshal to establish and implement Wildfire Home Preparedness Program. Appropriates moneys to Department of State Fire Marshal for purposes related to Wildfire Home Preparedness Program. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
(Senator Dembrow, carrier)
Read Testimonies
Featured Testimony: SB 762 remains unchanged, say NO
Author’s Note: This bill went to public hearing on 6/8 with less than a 24 hour notice.
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Presiding Chair (Co-Chair): Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Committee Co-Chair: Rep. Tawna Sanchez
Co-Vice Chair: Sen. Fred Girod
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. David Gomberg
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. Greg Smith
Member: Sen. Dick Anderson
Member: Sen. Winsvey Campos
Member: Sen. Michael Dembrow
Member: Sen. Lynn Findley
Member: Sen. Lew Frederick
Member: Sen. Bill Hansell
Member: Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin
Member: Sen. Tim Knopp
Member: Sen. Janeen Sollman
Member: Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson
Member: Rep. Jami Cate
Member: Rep. Paul Evans
Member: Rep. Rick Lewis
Member: Rep. Paul Holvey
Member: Rep. Susan McLain
Member: Rep. Khanh Pham
Member: E. Werner Reschke
Member: Rep. Andrea Valderrama
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SB 85 – Ways & Means Work Session – Requires State Department of Agriculture to study confined animal feeding operations. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than September 15, 2024.
-3 Amendment The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Agriculture may not issue or renew a license or permit to allow the construction or operation of (many, many operations).
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Featured Testimony: Oregon Cattleman’s Association in Opposition and Dairy Farmer in Opposition and My Family of 5
EMAIL Committee Members NOW!
Presiding Chair (Co-Chair): Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Committee Co-Chair: Rep. Tawna Sanchez
Co-Vice Chair: Sen. Fred Girod
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. David Gomberg
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. Greg Smith
Member: Sen. Dick Anderson
Member: Sen. Winsvey Campos
Member: Sen. Michael Dembrow
Member: Sen. Lynn Findley
Member: Sen. Lew Frederick
Member: Sen. Bill Hansell
Member: Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin
Member: Sen. Tim Knopp
Member: Sen. Janeen Sollman
Member: Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson
Member: Rep. Jami Cate
Member: Rep. Paul Evans
Member: Rep. Rick Lewis
Member: Rep. Paul Holvey
Member: Rep. Susan McLain
Member: Rep. Khanh Pham
Member: E. Werner Reschke
Member: Rep. Andrea Valderrama
To view a live stream of the meeting go to:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Committees/SRULES/Overview
"This bill was originally introduced as requiring the State Department of Agriculture to study confined animal feeding operations (CAFO), and to submit findings to Legislature. However, -1 amendment stops all operations upon renewal of license until adequate study is completed and addressed through laws and rules. It is written as if the study was already shown to need restrictions, so any study will be geared towards controlling CAFO, and not an objective study of what they are already doing right. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Department of Agriculture to not issue or renew a license or permit to allow the construction or operation of new industrial CAFO, additions or expansion of existing CAFO, or additions or expansions of existing livestock farm that would cause it to become an industrial CAFO. The definition of CAFO would apply to any large farming operation. The supporters of this bill do not understand farming operations or how much this would impact the food chain. Food prices are high now, this bill affects beef, pork, dairy, chickens, laying hens, turkeys, ducks, milk, cheese, eggs and all the by-products. Any study restricting farming practices will have a domino effect on the economy, impacting low income and homeless the hardest."
Featured Testimony: Rickreall Dairy Plea to Oppose
Other Bills in Ways & Means to Watch for:
BAD BILLS:
SB 348 -3 BM 114 – Firearms
SB 891 – Assisted Suicide
SB 579 – Voting in Prison
SB 530 – Climate Change
Tuesday - June 13, 2023
Senate Committee on Rules 3:00 PM
SB 678 – Establishes state policy that benefits from offshore wind energy development go to local and regional communities, ecosystems and environments and economies and that interconnection of offshore energy projects be carried out in manner that promotes electric grid reliability and resilience. Requires Governor, through Regional Solutions Program, to draft report for consideration by federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that identifies state priorities of nonmonetary factors and nonmonetary factor bidding credits to be used in bureau’s multiple-factor auction format for awarding offshore wind leases. Requires Governor to release and deliver report to bureau no later than September 15, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
To view a live stream of the meeting go to:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Committees/SRULES/Overview
Bills of Concern
Senate Committee on Rules 3:00 PM
Work Session
SB 775 – Provides that zone directors on local governing body of soil and water conservation district in county with population of ___ or more need only reside within district and be registered voters.
Read Testimonies
Featured Testimony: Board Member in Opposition
EMAIL Committee Members NOW!
Committee Chair: Sen. Kate Lieber
Vice Chair: Sen. Tim Knopp
Member: Sen. Bill Hansell
Member: Sen. James Manning, Jr
Member: Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
To view a live stream of the meeting go to:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Committees/SRULES/Overview
Wednesday - June 14, 2023
There are no public hearings scheduled at this writing.
Please Review the Schedule, bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
Thursday - June 15, 2023
There are no public hearings scheduled at this writing.
Please Review the Schedule, bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
Friday - June 16, 2023
There are no public hearings scheduled at this writing.
Please Review the Schedule, bills can be added at any time for Public Hearing
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/Committees/Meeting/List
Bills that need your attention & Emails!
BECAUSE OF YOU!
Last week, HB 3501 received LOTS of testimonies! This bill would have allowed homeless tent cities in nearly every park and street in Oregon and allowed homeless people to sue you personally for $1,000 if you try to move them. It was scheduled for a public hearing last week, but this week, the committee chair removed it from the agenda.
This is an example these action alerts can have an impact. They are meant to cause the Democrats in charge to reconsider what they are doing and get them to stop. Below are ones that need your attention, please take the time to write!
HB 2002 B – BAD ** BAD ** BAD*** MAJOR BAD BILL ALERT!
In plain English, this bill will:
- Force taxpayers to fund medically forced termination of pregnancy without any limitations
- Eliminate parental rights to knowledge and consent for invasive medical procedures and surgeries for their children.
- Hide and protect medical practitioners and hospitals fro legal liabilities and accountability
- Decriminalize the unregulated, irresponsible, and open dumping of deceased human bodies
- Force taxpers to payers to pay for elective gender change surgeries
Bill Summary on OLIS: Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights. Modifies provisions relating to access to reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment. Modifies provisions relating to protections for providers of and individuals receiving reproductive and gender-affirming health care services. Creates crime of interfering with a health care facility. Punishes by maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates right of action for person or health care provider aggrieved by interference with health care facility. Makes statutory change to achieve gender neutral language with respect to unlawful employment discrimination because of sex. Declares public policy regarding interstate actions arising out of reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment. Prohibits public body from participating in interstate investigation or proceeding involving reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment. Creates exceptions. Prohibits clerk of court from issuing subpoena if foreign subpoena relates to reproductive health care or gender-affirming treatment. Declares that Oregon law governs certain actions arising out of reproductive health care or gender-affirming treatment provided or received in this state. Repeals criminal provisions relating to concealing birth. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for allocation to Office of Rural Health, for purposes of providing grants through rural qualified health center pilot project. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for specified expenses. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
HB 2279 – BAD
Repeals residency requirement in Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
This bill could make Oregon an assisted suicide tourist destination. It’s no secret that we do not have a culture of life here in Oregon, and this is just the latest example.
Status:
Work Session held: 5/10/23
6/8/23: Recommendation do pass: (Ayes: Blouin, Manning, Jr., Prozanski; Nays: 0; Absent: Linthicum, Thatcher)
HB 3042 – BAD
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants’ housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing. Requires owners or landlords to provide notice to new tenants and applicants during notice period before withdrawal from publicly supported housing. Allows Housing and Community Services Department to record extension of affordability restrictions for publicly supported housing if property owner misses certain deadlines. Allows department to record right of first refusal if no qualified purchaser makes an offer. Makes other amendments to publicly supported housing preservation program. Declares emergency, effective on passage
This bill would allow the government to change an agreement with a subsidized housing provider by limiting their recoup costs beyond the agreed timeframe. This sets a dangerous precedent by changing the rules mid-game. How will this attract more housing to solve our housing crisis? We should create certainty for housing providers, not changing the terms of contracts.
This bill passed 5/8/23 (Nays: Anderson, Ayes: Jama, Patterson, Sollman; Absent: Knopp)
Other Bills in Ways & Means to Watch
5-30-2023 Update: The work session scheduled for 5/31/2023 looks to have been cancelled! That’s all we know for now.
**ALERT**
SB 348 -3 BM 114 Firearms
Work Session held on 4/4. Voted out of Senate Committee on Judiciary with 2 Nays (Senator Thatcher and Senator Linthicum) and 3 Ayes (Senator Gelser Blouin, Senator Manning, and Senator Prozanski). Referred to Ways and Means. A minority report has been submitted by Republicans.
"As you know, Measure 114 is on hold due to an injunction issued out of Harney County. A full trial is expected there in September. However, everything could change based on what actions the Legislature takes. In the meantime, the Oregon State Police are accepting your “suggestions” on how best to implement a “permit to purchase” policy that we all know will be every bit as chaotic and unworkable as their current “instant background check” system is.
Comments can be emailed to OSP114@osp.oregon.gov or mailed to:
Oregon State Police
Attn: Permit to Purchase Rulemaking
3565 Trelstad Ave. SE
Salem, OR 97317
You can offer your “suggestions” until May 22.
More information here: http://www.oregonfirearms.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rulemaking-Notice_SOS-Filed_4-17-23-1.pdf "
06.11.2023
As you know, and as we have repeatedly reported, the Republican Senator’s denial of quorum has been completely effective at slamming the brakes on the Democrat’s extreme agenda.
(Only Senators Dick Anderson and David Brock Smith have been showing up every day to Senate floor sessions.)
So, in spite of being in the minority, the Republicans have been essentially controlling the agenda and protecting the people who elected them from the worst of the Democrat’s bills, stalling some very dangerous gun restrictions.
But now the left is buzzing with talk of a “deal” to bring the Republicans back in exchange for the Republicans folding on personally made firearms, what the left calls “ghost guns.”
Cartel media reports have already discussed some kind of trade off.
If the Republicans accept this deal they will be effectively banning all AR style firearms and countless other guns because the “ghost gun” language is crafted so badly that they are banning the parts that are not, and have never been, regulated. Basically they would be outlawing AR firearm’s UPPER receivers which were never required to have serial numbers, while ironically ignoring the parts they think they are banning.
If Knopp and the Republican Senators fall for this deal they will have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory to placate the left wing media and once again stuck it to gun owners.
Please contact Senate Minority leader Tim Knopp and remind him that gun owners have stood behind the Senate walk out and not to sell us out now when we could win it all.
Senator Tim Knopp
Capitol Phone: (503) 986-1727
Email: Sen.TimKnopp@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/knopp
Federal Trial Update.
06.07.2023
Yesterday, the state presented an “expert” witness who hilariously claimed that it takes 5 seconds or more to change a magazine
This false and absurd statement was made in an effort to convince the court that low capacity magazines will protect people in mass shootings by giving them time to run away.
To make his clearly ridiculous point, he theatrically and slowly counted down, 1….2…. 3.. and then commented on how many people could have run away in that time.
The “expert” made other equally and unfounded comments as the state continues to try to divert the court from the real issue of whether Measure 114 is constitutional. Instead, they continue to make arguments that the US Supreme Court has already ruled irrelevant.
At the heart of the state’s argument is their bizarre position that magazines are not “arms” and therefore can be regulated and banned.
Of course, the logical extension of that position is that ALL magazines can be banned by a vote of the masses or the legislature rendering modern firearms useless.
Whether the judge recognizes the magnitude of this very dangerous idea remains to be seen, but OFF’s witness, Damian Bunting, a private security professional, was able to make the point brilliantly and silence the state’s lawyers when he was asked whether he would switch to ten round magazines if the court allows this clearly unconstitutional measure to become law.
When he replied that he would not, the state’s lawyer was thrown off her prepared statements and searched her notes for what to say. Was Mr. Bunting admitting he would break the law?
It was then that Bunting accurately pointed out that any magazine for any of the firearms he carried would make him a criminal.
No matter how this judge rules, she is now on notice and cannot avoid the fact that she knows this measure will (among many other things) outlaw virtually all firearm’s magazines. It is simply impossible to imagine how anyone could consider that constitutional.
ALERT SB 891 Eliminates residency requirements for assisted suicide
Work Session held on 3/29 in Senate Committee on Judiciary. Voted out of committee with 2 Nays (Senator Thatcher and Senator Linthicum) and 3 Ayes (Senator Gelser Blouin, Senator Manning, and Senator Prozanski). Referred to Rules.
4/17 Recommendation do pass
4/17 Minority Recommendation do pass with amendments
4/17 Referred to Health Care by order of the President
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Chair: Sen. Deb Patterson
Vice-Chair: Sen. Cedric Hayden
Member: Sen. Daniel Bonham
Member: Sen. Winsvey Campos
Member: Sen. Chris Gorsek
ALERT SB 530 Climate Change
This bill creates state policy regarding natural solutions and the Natural and Working Lands Fund. This bill directs the Oregon Global Warming Commission, ODOE and other state agencies to jointly coordinate on the development and prepare a net carbon sequestration and storage baseline for natural and working lands. A natural and working lands advisory committee will be create and will consist of 14 members.
Work Session held on 4/3 in Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Voted out of committee and referred to Ways and Means
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Presiding Chair (Co-Chair): Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Committee Co-Chair: Rep. Tawna Sanchez
Co-Vice Chair: Sen. Fred Girod
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. David Gomberg
Co-Vice Chair: Rep. Greg Smith
Member: Sen. Dick Anderson
Member: Sen. Winsvey Campos
Member: Sen. Michael Dembrow
Member: Sen. Lynn Findley
Member: Sen. Lew Frederick
Member: Sen. Bill Hansell
Member: Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin
Member: Sen. Tim Knopp
Member: Sen. Janeen Sollman
Member: Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson
Member: Rep. Jami Cate
Member: Rep. Paul Evans
Member: Rep. Rick Lewis
Member: Rep. Paul Holvey
Member: Rep. Susan McLain
Member: Rep. Khanh Pham
Member: E. Werner Reschke
Member: Rep. Andrea Valderrama
Ag Bills to Support in Ways & Means
HB 2631 – Wolf Compensation with a 7x multiplier for lost cattle – $900,000-$1.2M
SB 471 – Wolf Compensation Fund – $800,000
SB 955 – AgStress – Suicide Prevention Call Line – $300,000
HB 2194 – ODA Grant Program to fund construction of meat rendering plants – $4M
HB 2907 – ODA Grant Program to fund establishments that process and sell meat products – $10M
HB 3247 – Support for OSU Veterinary Diagnostic Lab – $900,000
HB 5002 – Oregon Department of Agriculture Budget
SB 5509 – Restore Predator Control Funding (USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services) – Leveraging approximately 5:1 federal and county dollars to state dollars, respectively.
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