A bill that passed out of the Senate education committee Thursday would create a task force to study school attendance and why students don’t come to school.

The chairs of the Legislature's budget committee say they need to spend limited resources paying for the commitments Oregon has made in recent years — not creating new ones.

Cities will receive “new resources in April, not August,” Rep. David Gomberg, a Democrat from the central coast said on Wednesday morning, “and that’s significant.”

The vast majority of the funding — about $157 million — is aimed at boosting homelessness and eviction prevention services. The money will go toward increasing shelter capacity, addressing youth homelessness, and funding rapid rehousing efforts and rental assistance programs.

House Bill 3391 died in the House Judiciary Committee after failing to get scheduled for a work session by Friday’s deadline.

Lawmakers passed a bill in 2021 to let motorcyclists ride between lanes of congested traffic, but it was vetoed.

Legislators in Oregon are making a fourth attempt to ban “ghost guns,” untraceable and undetectable firearms that are assembled at home. They have proliferated in recent years. The legislation is one of three bills put forward this session to address gun violence in the state.

Oregon Senate Republicans are asking Gov. Tina Kotek to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the scandal surrounding top executives and managers at the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, who diverted specialty bourbons away from public consumption for their own personal use.

A big-picture look at what lawmakers hope to do this legislative session to address the many failures of the state's child care system.

The Portland Police Bureau should do more to protect information about people’s alleged gang affiliations and to measure how effective the new gun violence teams are at reducing gun violence, according to a city auditor’s update released Tuesday.