Oregon legislature

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.

Senate Bill 110 authorizes $800 million in bonds to help fund the construction of a professional baseball stadium on Portland’s South Waterfront.

Oregon House Minority Leader Christine Drazan says lawmakers need to look for ways to reduce spending, particularly in the major transportation funding package.

Desperate for money to get through the next two wildfire seasons and with few proposals on the table that could meet costs and get passed by the Oregon Legislature, Gov. Tina Kotek is proposing to skim some money off of the state’s “rainy day fund.”

In a sign of mounting concerns about political violence, Oregon state lawmakers recently passed a bill blocking their personal addresses — hours before a Minnesota lawmaker was shot and killed in her home.