By Oregon State Representative Ed Diehl Press Release, Senate Bill 1154-1 represents a sweeping overhaul of Oregon’s groundwater policy, threatening local decision-making, property rights, and transparency. This amendment grants unelected agencies excessive power to inspect private property, restrict rural development, and impose mandates without clear scientific evidence or due process. […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   Next week will bring a significant milestone in the 2025 Legislative Session, with the April 9th deadline for bills to either be passed out of their original policy committees, or die. This effectively marks the halfway point of the session. The […]

By Oregon State Senator Daniel Bonham President Trump has issued a new executive order aimed at expanding logging on federal lands—a move that could bring jobs and economic relief to Oregon’s struggling timber industry. But there’s just one problem: Oregon’s leadership is likely to fight it every step of the way. A […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, (3/28/25) The pace in the Capitol right now is frenetic, as Committees, legislators, organizations, and constituents work quickly to move bills forward or kill them, while evaluating and drafting a myriad of amendments. The Legislative offices, from members to the legislative lawyers are backlogged […]

Merkley, Risch, Wyden, Crapo Team Up for Bipartisan Bill to Boost Mass Timber Industry Nationwide International Mass Timber Conference Kicks off in Portland, Oregon By Oregon U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Idaho’s U.S. Senator James Risch today launched a renewed bipartisan effort […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   March 21st is the deadline for bills to cross their first hurdle to stay alive: bills not scheduled on a committee agenda for a work session by the end of today (Friday March 21st) will be deemed dead. A “work session” […]

By Oregon House Republican Caucus,   Salem, Ore. – House Republicans and farmers held a press briefing to condemn House Bill 2548. This bill proposes a sweeping, one-size-fits-all mandate that would transfer critical decisions about staffing, wages, benefits, and training to an unelected, unaccountable, bureaucratic body, and disregards the significant protections […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Tensions seem to be rising in the Capitol as two labor bills sparked partisan divides this week in Salem. The Senate advanced SB 916, which would allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits. This triggered a Republican effort to daylight Democrats ties […]

By Oregon State Representative Boomer Wright, Press Release, Background on SB 762 & SB 80 In 2021, the Oregon legislature passed Senate Bill 762, a comprehensive wildfire management bill aimed at addressing the increasing threat of wildfires across the state. The bill introduced various measures, including new regulations and programs […]

By Samantha Bayer Oregon Property Owners Association, The OPOA Legal Center, alongside Harney County, Grant County, and a coalition of concerned property owners, filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Forestry and the State Forester. The lawsuit, filed in Harney County Circuit Court, seeks a range of remedies, including […]