Legislature

After nearly 10 hours of negotiations over the weekend, top lawmakers arrived at a tentative framework for rescuing the 2023 session. Both sides stress a deal hasn't been made.

Lawmakers boycotting this session created a new political committee to raise money off the walkout. That money can't be used to challenge a new law that could bounce them from office.

With weekend negotiations proving fruitless, three senators will now be blocked from running for reelection.

Ballot Measure 113 is a union-pushed response to recent Republican walkouts. It would create a major political consequence for lawmakers for refuse to come to work to block votes.

The bill would direct county governments to work with mortuaries to identify unclaimed remains of veterans and start the process to arrange for burial in a national cemetery.

If passed, the measure would prevent lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from seeking re-election.

New plan aims to get $600 checks to nearly 260,000 Oregonians facing economic struggles due to the pandemic.

Rep. Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, became the state's first new House speaker in nearly a decade.

Former House Minority Leader Christine Drazan, a Republican who wasn’t afraid to use legislative tactics to leverage power for her caucus, will resign from the Legislature at the end of this month.

A bipartisan deal negotiated this week could allow $215 million for rent assistance and eviction protections — as well as nearly $200 million in other spending — to sail through the state Legislature.