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State's recovery may begin in autumn
Portland :: OR :: USA | 3 months ago
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Department of Administrative Services) Economic forecast: Revenue forecast: (Click on "most recent revenue forecast," which is in portable document format) Reactions These statements are from Gov. Ted Kulongoski and legislative leaders about Thursday's...
Tags: Oregon House, revenue forecast
Senate OKs cell-phone for drivers
Salem :: OR :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Oregon is a step closer to joining other West Coast states that ban use of hand-held cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. The Oregon Senate on Tuesday narrowly approved a bill to impose a maximum $90 fine on drivers caught texting or talking...
Tags: cell phones, held cell, Oregon House, Oregon Senate, House Bill, caught texting, drivers caught
House approves corporate-income tax for reserve fund
Salem :: OR :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Higher corporate-income taxes after 2012 would flow into the state's general reserve fund under a bill that cleared the Oregon House on Thursday. House Bill 2073, which opened the way for legislative approval of two tax increases, moved to the Senate...
Tags: Oregon House, Oregon Legislature, schools districts, Ted Kulongoski
Ore. proposal: Allow charges for killing unborn
Salem :: OR :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Ore.— An Oregon lawmaker wants to allow prosecutions for murder in the death of an unborn child. The proposal from Republican Sen. Bruce Starr on Tuesday is in response to the death of a woman whose fetus was cut from her womb on Friday and did not survive....
Tags: Sen. Bruce Starr, Oregon House
House OKs plan to extend health insurance
Salem :: India | 5 months ago
Credibility The Senate will vote on House Bill 2116 on Wednesday at the earliest, said a spokesman for Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, but more likely later in the week. The House also passed HB 2009 on Monday, 38-22, with two Republicans joining all 36...
Tags: Oregon House, House of Representatives, health insurance
NBC 21 Portland (KTVZ): Ore. lawmakers back income tax hikes
Salem :: OR :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Measures to raise income taxes on Oregon's higher-income residents and corporations have been approved by the House Revenue Committee...Majority Democrats said the tax hikes are needed to protect schools, prisons and aid to the poor from deeper budget...
Tags: Oregon House
Transportation bill on track to become law
Salem :: OR :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility No 31 Democrats and seven Republicans voted yes; five Democrats and 17 Republicans voted no. Project list Mid-Valley projects attached to a funding package in House Bill 2001, which passed the Oregon House on Wednesday and goes to the Senate.
Tags: Oregon House, Mary Nolan, health care
Examiner.com: Anchorage, Alaska: Ore. committee advances menu-labeling bill
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility An Oregon House committee approved a bill that would require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and reader boards. If the bill passes the full House and then the Senate, Oregon would become the second state after California to adopt such...
Tags: Oregon House
Move to restrict smoking in cars could test police
Salem :: OR :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The Oregon House voted Wednesday to outlaw smoking in cars when anybody 16 or younger is riding along despite some lawmakers' concerns that it would burden already-stretched local police departments. Backers of the bill said the state needs to protect...
Tags: Oregon House
Ore. senator-elect wants timber revenue, auto aid
Portland :: OR :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Oregon Democrat says the first goal is a sustainable timber harvest, to preserve logging jobs and the environment. To the extent that's not possible, he says, the federal government must support counties that depend on federal payments. "I think they're...
Tags: Oregon House, AAA Oregon, Jeff Merkley
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