Oregon legislature

An amendment unveiled Wednesday would scale back some proposed tax increases in House Bill 2025

Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes and requirements to reduce vegetation on their properties.

The latest budget is a signal from state lawmakers that they want to ensure the current dollars are being spent wisely.

State elections officials said last week Oregon is not prepared to enact new limits in 2027 as planned.

Lawmakers couldn’t find a compromise on a bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.

With less than a week left in this year’s session, the bill was referred back to a legislative committee. Lawmakers will be hard-pressed to revive it in time.

The measure, House Bill 3940, would tax oral nicotine products and tap the interest on Oregon’s rainy day savings account and put the money toward wildfire mitigation.

House Bill 5011 funnels large sums of money toward homeless shelters while reducing eviction prevention funds by more than $100 million.

House Speaker Julie Fahey spent the weekend negotiating with skeptical members of her party.

“The budget that’s being proposed and likely to be adopted will effectively be a reduction in resources available to [institutions],” said Kevin Neely, interim executive director of the Oregon Council of Presidents.

A Democratic senator’s removal from a key committee Friday inspired backlash from some in the party.

The vote comes amid legal arguments over Trump’s authority to federalize the California National Guard.