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Voted for House Bill 4075, which puts the state behind a loan to keep a rural hospital afloat. By April 2027 the State Treasurer must guarantee one rural hospital stabilization loan. The hospital must be run by an elected board and be paid by Medicare on the usual hospital basis. The money may only cover a cash shortage or refinance old debt. It may not pay for new services, new buildings or improvements. The loan must run no more than 20 years, be paid down steadily with no balloon payment, and come from one lender or a single group of lenders. The state takes a first claim on nearly all the hospital's land and equipment. The Oregon House passed it 42-15, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1598, which makes health plans in Oregon cover more preventive care at no charge to the patient. The list of covered services is moved forward from the federal rules of January 2023 to those of June 2025. Plans must also cover vaccines that Oregon's Public Health Officer recommends. That officer may issue such recommendations, and must weigh the evidence and the guidance of medical and scientific bodies. The state must publish each recommendation, saying who it is meant to help and how it should be given. Plans then have 15 business days to cover it. Patients may not be charged a share of the cost, except where federal law allows. The Oregon House passed it 39-18, and it became law.

March 3, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 824, which makes health insurers report how they treat mental health claims next to medical ones. Each year they must tell the state how many claims of each kind they denied, how many denials were appealed, and how those appeals came out. They must also report what share of claims went to providers inside their network, and what they pay for an office visit by provider type and region, set against the Medicare rate. The Oregon House passed it 38-13, and it became law.

June 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 822, which tightens the test for whether a health insurer has enough doctors in its network. The state must write standards for judging that, in line with federal rules. Those standards must take account of areas that are short of health workers. Insurers must show that care can be had without long delay, for both first and follow-up visits. The law names mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment and reproductive health care as services that must be within reach. It also says care must suit patients of different backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and disabilities. The Oregon House passed it 31-14, and it became law.

June 24, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2385, which stops drug makers from blocking the discount drug program that lets clinics and hospitals serving low-income patients buy medicines cheaply. A maker, or anyone acting for one, may not deny, restrict or otherwise interfere with a pharmacy under contract with such a clinic getting, receiving or handing out those drugs. It also may not demand claims or utilization review data as a condition of doing so. Both bans lift only if the federal health department requires otherwise. The State Board of Pharmacy may fine a maker up to $5,000 a day for each violation. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 35-20, and it became law.

June 2, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 295, which lets pharmacists keep testing people for COVID-19 and treating it. That power was granted in 2024 with an end date attached, and this law repeals the end date. Nothing else changes: the same pharmacists may do the same things, with no time limit. The Oregon House passed it 40-11, and it became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 3409, which limits when a drug plan may force a clinic to tag a claim. Under a federal program called 340B, clinics that serve low-income patients buy medicines cheaply. Drug plans and the firms that run their drug benefits had been asking clinics to mark each such claim. They may now ask for that mark only in set cases. One is where the clinic already sends its data to a clearing house that meets the law's terms. Another is where the mark is needed to stop the same discount being given twice. The Oregon House passed it 32-18, and it became law.

May 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2010, which keeps two health care funding charges alive for six more years, to the end of 2032. One is a two percent charge on health insurance premiums, the other a matching charge on managed care plans. Both pay for the Oregon Reinsurance Program, which covers part of the cost of the most expensive claims so that premiums on the individual market stay lower. Without this they would have ended in 2026. The law also lets insurers count what they cede to that program as reinsurance credit. The Oregon House passed it 40-15, and it became law.

February 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 4153, which opens land zoned for farming to farm stores and paid visitor attractions. A farm store becomes an allowed use on exclusive farm use land, and on land zoned for mixed farm and forest use. The store must sell products from the farm that runs it. The Act also allows agri-tourism there. That means activities a farm runs to draw visitors and sell its store's goods, and which may earn commercial or entertainment money as well. Named examples are farm tours, classes and exhibits, crop mazes, play structures, farm-to-table meals, animal petting, hay or tractor rides and seasonal events. A farm store may not be used for lodging or as a home. The Oregon House passed it 40-14, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1598, which makes health plans in Oregon cover more preventive care at no charge to the patient. The list of covered services is moved forward from the federal rules of January 2023 to those of June 2025. Plans must also cover vaccines that Oregon's Public Health Officer recommends. That officer may issue such recommendations, and must weigh the evidence and the guidance of medical and scientific bodies. The state must publish each recommendation, saying who it is meant to help and how it should be given. Plans then have 15 business days to cover it. Patients may not be charged a share of the cost, except where federal law allows. The Oregon House passed it 39-18, and it became law.

March 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 4134, which raises the state lodging tax and sends the extra money to wildlife. The tax on renting a room goes from 1.5 percent to 2.75 percent. It is now split three ways. The first 1.5 percent still goes to the tourism commission as before. A new 0.9 percent goes to the Recovering Oregon's Wildlife Fund Subaccount, which is the renamed Oregon Conservation Strategy Subaccount. The last 0.35 percent is split again, with shares going to the Oregon Conservation Corps and to the State Police to fight poaching. Because the Act raises revenue, it needed a three-fifths vote in each chamber. The Oregon House passed it 36-22, and it became law.

February 24, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 4031, which lets some renewable power projects skip the state siting certificate. The exemption covers a facility that makes power only from the sun, the wind, the earth's heat or the sea. The developer must apply to the local government by the end of 2028 and win its approval. It must then tell that government, and copy the state siting council, that building has begun far enough to earn a federal renewable energy tax credit. The notice must name the applicant and the facility. Projects that do not meet all of this still need the state certificate. The Oregon House passed it 43-13, and it became law.

February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1154, which adds an early warning step to how Oregon deals with polluted ground water. The state environmental agency must now ask the Environmental Quality Commission to name a ground water quality concern area. That happens once the agency confirms pollution that looks to come at least partly from spread-out sources, such as farms or septic systems. One more test must be met: many wells are hit, the sources need more study, or the water could break legal limits within 20 years. Before this, the state acted only once pollution was bad enough for a management area. The Oregon House passed it 39-11, and it became law.

June 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3525, which makes landlords test the drinking water when a rental home draws it from a small private well and sits inside a state ground water management area. Testing covers arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead and nitrates, once a year, plus an arsenic test within 30 days of a new well. A clean result against federal limits buys four years before the next test. The landlord takes the sample from the main drinking tap. That job may be handed to the tenant only by a written agreement made in good faith. The landlord must also tell the lab the test is required by this law, so the results reach the Oregon Health Authority. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 36-14, and it became law.

June 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3365, which requires Oregon to teach about climate change in six school subjects. The next time the state revises what schools must teach in science, health, history, geography, economics and civics, those standards must cover what causes climate change and what it does. They must also cover ways to slow it, adapt to it, and help communities cope. The rule applies to every review of the standards from the day the law took effect. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 32-21, and it became law.

June 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 2684, which makes school boards keep their pest control plans current and public. The plan must be reviewed, updated and readopted at least once every five years, and must carry the day it was adopted. Boards must post both the plan and their list of low-risk pesticides on their website, which they can do by folding them into the health and safety plan they already post. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 43-12, and it became law.

June 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 551, which closes the gap that let stores hand out thick plastic bags at the register. Oregon's bag law had treated a sturdy plastic or cloth bag as reusable, so it escaped the ban. The law deletes both of those terms, so from January 1, 2027 any checkout bag that is not a recycled paper bag counts as single use and cannot be given out. Stores may still offer recycled paper bags if they charge at least five cents, and may give them free to shoppers using a WIC voucher or a state benefits card. Restaurants may give recycled paper bags free. Bags handed out away from the register still do not count, such as those for loose produce, meat, bakery items or prescriptions. The Oregon House passed it 33-19, and it became law.

May 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 827, which widens Oregon's solar rebate so it also pays for a home battery added to solar panels that were bought and put in earlier. Before this, a battery only counted when it went in with the panels. The state energy office may set rebate levels for panels alone, batteries alone, and the two together. It may also write rules for running and checking the program. The battery must be set up to store what the panels make. The Oregon House passed it 36-16, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 91, which bars fire departments, and their employees and volunteers, from using firefighting foam that contains PFAS, the long-lasting chemicals often called forever chemicals. The ban covers foam with a deliberately added PFAS compound used to control or put out fire. It does not apply where the Federal Aviation Administration or another federal law requires that foam. The ban starts on July 1, 2026. The Oregon House passed it 39-14, and it became law.

May 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 2081, which tells the state's investment board and treasurer to treat climate change as a risk to the public employee pension fund. They must study and manage that risk, and report on the emissions of the fund's fossil fuel holdings, both those the companies produce directly and those from the energy they buy. They must look at how doing so affects returns, and aim to cut the fund's carbon intensity by favoring investments that lower net emissions. A report goes to the Legislature every two years. Existing duties to the fund and its contracts still bind them. The Oregon House passed it 36-18, and it became law.

May 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3932, which bars hunting or trapping beavers for sport or sale in and beside Oregon's most polluted waters on public land. It applies where the state has listed a waterway as impaired under the federal Clean Water Act and the water flows through or beside public land, or where public land sits within 200 feet of a river or stream. The wildlife department must publish a map and refresh it every two years. Land management staff may still remove a beaver threatening roads, culverts or crops, though non-lethal methods come first. None of it reaches private land. The Oregon House passed it 35-18, and it became law.

April 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 3863, which opens standard power purchase terms to larger small generators. A federal law makes utilities buy power from small projects such as solar, wind or hydro. Oregon sets a size limit, and a project above it loses the standard rate and contract and has to bargain for its own. The state must now set that limit at 10 megawatts or higher. The Oregon House passed it 40-15, and it became law.

April 14, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1507, which makes Oregon tax income that new federal breaks had freed, and pays some of it back to low-paid workers. Interest on a car loan that a taxpayer deducted on their federal return must be added back to income on their Oregon return. So must any gain on qualified small business stock that federal law let them leave out. Both apply from the 2026 tax year. Oregon also refuses the federal bonus depreciation write-off. In the other direction the Act raises Oregon's earned income tax credit, which goes to working people on low pay, and adds a credit for creating new jobs. The Oregon House passed it 34-21, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 3646, which lets state and local agencies favor employee-owned firms when they buy goods or services. The firm counts if its workers own at least half of it, either outright or through a retirement plan the IRS treats as qualified. The preference only holds if the price is no more than five percent above what other bidders ask, though an agency may raise that margin by order. A bidder must send proof of the ownership with its bid. The Oregon House passed it 31-27, and it became law.

April 21, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 4089, which sharpens the criminal law against employers who take work and do not pay for it. The crime of theft of services now reaches anyone who gets paid-for services by force, threat, trickery or any other way of dodging payment. A criminal case does not block a civil one. The worker, a contractor, a representative or the state labor commissioner may still sue for wages, penalties or damages. A state network must build ways to gather and share facts on people who may be doing this and breaking tax or employment law. It also becomes a crime for a builder to knowingly hire a labor contractor who has no state license. The Oregon House passed it 33-9, and it became law.

February 27, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4069, which makes mental health and addiction treatment employers write a safety plan for staff. The plan must set out steps for lone workers. It must also cover the places where the work is done. A lone worker is someone doing this work with no colleague nearby. The places covered take in buildings, vehicles and other regular work sites. The duty falls on employers holding a contract with the state health agency. That takes in treatment facilities and homes, secure ones too. It takes in sobering sites, detox centers, halfway houses, mobile crisis teams and emergency shelters. The date each employer must comply by depends on its contract. The Oregon House passed it 36-13, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4013, which sets a floor under the limits on how many hours a child may work in Oregon. State rules on a minor's total working hours may not be looser than the federal Fair Labor Standards Act as it stood on January 1, 2026. The state labor bureau may still make them stricter. But it may do so only to keep up with a change in the federal Act or in state law that raises protection for minors. The old words allowing a different result under other Oregon law are struck out. The Oregon House passed it 36-22, and it became law.

February 10, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 2688, which extends Oregon's prevailing wage to custom work built off-site for a public works project. It covers parts made to a project's own specifications, such as heating and cooling, plumbing, electrical, boiler, iron, masonry, roofing and insulation work. It applies to projects put out to bid from July 1, 2026 (or, if never put out to bid, contracted from then), and adds money for wage enforcement. The Oregon House passed it 31-22, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1168, which bars paying home health and home hospice staff by the visit instead of by the hour. Oregon already barred this for nurses. The law now covers the wider staff who deliver those services. It also lists who is left out: home care workers, direct caregivers at in-home care agencies, doctors, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, volunteers, and anyone a union contract treats as a supervisor. The Oregon House passed it 38-12, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 537, which widens Oregon's rules on violence against health care workers. The state must write steps for how employers look into, record and report violent incidents. It must do the same for the safety committees that watch over them. More employers are covered, including home health agencies, home hospice programs, and hospitals other than the Oregon State Hospital. Staff must get training and a copy of the employer's plan. Employers may also mark a patient's health record to warn that the patient could pose a risk, under set rules. The Oregon House passed it 37-12, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 3194, which strengthens the rules for farmworker housing camps. A landowner who knew or should have known that a camp was on the land shares liability with the camp operator. Any harmed person may sue an unlicensed or unregistered camp operator over any camp violation, and the minimum damages rise from $500 to $2,000. The Oregon House passed it 37-16, and it became law.

June 19, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 916, which lets workers draw unemployment pay during a labor dispute, which Oregon law had barred. Workers shut out by a lockout are no longer disqualified at all. Workers on strike lose the first week, then may draw benefits for up to ten more weeks, or eight if the state's unemployment fund is on one of its stronger tax schedules when the strike starts. The law defines strike, lockout and labor dispute for the first time in this part of the code. The Oregon House passed it again 35-22 under the conference committee report, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 426, which makes the main contractor on a building job answer for wages a subcontractor fails to pay. The main contractor is the firm that signs the deal with the owner. A worker who is owed can act through a building trades union, or another representative they pick. The duty covers work on buildings, other structures and land. It reaches deals to build, rebuild, alter, maintain, move or tear down. The Oregon House passed it 31-26, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 2944, which sets required fines for public employers that keep breaking the rules on union dues. An employer that again fails to deduct authorized dues, or to pass them to the union within 30 days, faces a fine of $1,000 to $5,000, and $5,000 to $10,000 for later violations. Natural disasters, computer crimes and fires are excused. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate version 35-21, and it became law.

May 27, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 906, which makes employers give every new hire a written guide to the pay and deductions on a pay stub. It must set out the pay period and each kind of pay the job may carry, such as hourly, salary, shift differentials, piece rate and commission. It must also list every deduction, what each is for, any allowance counted toward the minimum wage, and what each payroll code means. Employers may post it or share a link instead of handing it over, and must update it each January. The labor bureau must publish a model in English and Spanish, and may fine an employer $500. The Oregon House passed it 35-17, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 3550, which takes minor league baseball players out of Oregon's minimum wage and workplace rules. It covers a player signed to a pro sports club who is also covered by a union contract that sets pay and working conditions. State rules on pay floors, overtime and meal breaks no longer reach those players. The Oregon House passed it 35-15, and it became law.

March 25, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4159, which changes who sits on Oregon's ethics board and what stays private. The Governor appoints nine members. At least one must have worked in local government. The Act also keeps legal privilege alive for a message sent to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission. That covers someone giving facts about a complaint the commission is deciding. Without it, handing the material over could have given up the privilege. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 37-15, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 3792, which doubles the money collected from electric company customers for the fund that helps low-income households pay their power bills, from at least $20 million a year to at least $40 million. Every two years the Public Utility Commission must look again at how much help people need and may raise both the total and the rates charged. If it raises the total by more than 2.5 percent it must report to the Legislature within 30 days. The law also lifts the ceiling on what any one customer site can be charged for this, from $500 to $1,000 a month. The Oregon House passed it 38-13, and it became law.

June 24, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 3546, which makes the Public Utility Commission put very large power users, mostly data centers, in a rate class of their own. The rule covers a site that can draw 20 megawatts or more and mainly does data hosting. That class must be charged what it costs to serve it, or those costs can be billed straight to the customer. The price plan must also limit the risk that other customers pay costs they did not cause. Power companies must sign deals of ten years or more with these customers, and each deal must set a minimum the customer will pay. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 37-17, and it became law.

June 5, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 1538, which bars Oregon schools from treating students worse over their immigration or citizenship status. That is added to a list that already covered race, religion, sex, gender identity and disability. The law also gives a place in a district's classes to everyone aged 5 to 19 who lives there. Colleges may still follow rules set by federal law or by a grant. They may still charge a fee for an international program. Students here on a cultural exchange are treated separately. The Attorney General must update the model policy schools use when police ask for information. Districts must hand that policy to their staff. The Oregon House passed it 36-21, and it became law.

February 26, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 4111, which keeps a person's immigration status out of most civil lawsuits in Oregon. It may be used only when that status is needed to prove part of a claim. Two narrow exceptions apply, and both come after a trial ends. A final removal order may be used to work out damages for future lost wages. Federal work papers may be used where a court has ordered someone back into a job. Each one must be filed in secret. A judge must hold a closed hearing first, and the papers stay sealed. The law also bars an employer from punishing a worker who updates their records after a lawful change in their federal work permit. The Oregon House passed it 34-19, and it became law.

February 19, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 4079, which makes schools tell families when federal immigration officers have come onto school grounds. Every school district, education service district and public charter school must adopt a notice policy. It has to follow the model the Attorney General publishes. The policy must name at least one administrator who confirms such a visit and sends the notice. It must make reasonable efforts to tell a student, or their parent, when the school has given the student's information to a federal immigration officer. Districts choose which grades get a notice. Contractors and volunteers who serve students may ask to be told as well. A court order or another law can override the duty to notify. The Oregon House passed it 35-22, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 476, which helps people trained abroad get licensed to work in Oregon. Every state licensing board must train the staff who deal with these applicants. The state's immigrant and refugee office approves that training. The law also creates a starter license for doctors trained abroad. To get one, a doctor needs a degree and training much like an Oregon doctor's, plus a pass from the national body for foreign medical graduates. The Oregon House passed it 33-11, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 1515, which makes it easier for a wrongly convicted person to be paid for the years taken from them. Lawmakers found that people wrongly convicted and jailed in Oregon had been blocked by legal and technical obstacles, and should have a timely route to compensation and a finding of innocence. A person must not have committed the crime, nor any other crime in the same episode. There is now a set way to prove that. It is enough that an earlier court found no reasonable juror would have convicted, weighing all the evidence, old and new. That route is not the only one, and no other way of proving innocence is closed off. The Oregon House passed it 40-16, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 4069, which makes mental health and addiction treatment employers write a safety plan for staff. The plan must set out steps for lone workers. It must also cover the places where the work is done. A lone worker is someone doing this work with no colleague nearby. The places covered take in buildings, vehicles and other regular work sites. The duty falls on employers holding a contract with the state health agency. That takes in treatment facilities and homes, secure ones too. It takes in sobering sites, detox centers, halfway houses, mobile crisis teams and emergency shelters. The date each employer must comply by depends on its contract. The Oregon House passed it 36-13, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 3069, which pulls Oregon's county public safety grants together into one program run by the Criminal Justice Commission. The stated goal is to reduce how many people get caught up in the criminal justice system. The program takes in the Justice Reinvestment grants, which date from 2013, and a new treatment court grant program, and hands the money to counties. It also makes parts of the 2013 law permanent. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 32-11, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 537, which widens Oregon's rules on violence against health care workers. The state must write steps for how employers look into, record and report violent incidents. It must do the same for the safety committees that watch over them. More employers are covered, including home health agencies, home hospice programs, and hospitals other than the Oregon State Hospital. Staff must get training and a copy of the employer's plan. Employers may also mark a patient's health record to warn that the patient could pose a risk, under set rules. The Oregon House passed it 37-12, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 2677, which makes county juvenile departments apply to clear old juvenile records rather than leaving it to the young person to ask. The department files with the court once the person turns 18, is out of juvenile court supervision, and has no disqualifying adult conviction. For records from before 2024 the department must make a reasonable effort to tell the victim when it files. The case is heard in the county of the most recent finding. The Oregon House passed it 37-18, and it became law.

June 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 3825, which wipes out old court debts from small marijuana convictions. It reaches fines and other money judgments from a city or county court for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana before July 1, 2015, where the debt had not already lapsed. Those debts end on the day the law took effect. The person is then treated as having served the sentence for that money, which matters because an unpaid debt can block getting a conviction set aside. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 32-8, and it became law.

June 13, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 4036, which sets up a state fund to hold on to low-cost housing that is at risk of being lost. The fund is filled by state bonds. The money goes to the state housing department. It may buy, build, repair, equip or furnish low-cost housing that the state will own or run. The law also widens what counts as at risk. It now takes in buildings whose roofs, wiring, plumbing or other systems have worn out, or soon will. By December 2026 the department must report to lawmakers on the state rules that make low-cost housing costlier to run. The Oregon House passed it 44-12, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2138, which makes cities of 25,000 or more people, and Portland-area cities of 1,000 or more, let people build duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhouses and small cottage clusters on any lot zoned for homes inside a growth boundary. Other cities of 2,500 or more need only allow duplexes. The duty now reaches county land inside a growth boundary as well. If one of the new homes is affordable, or built so a person with a disability can use it, the city must allow one or two more homes on the lot and leave room to fit them. Cities may no longer demand a traffic study for one small project, unless it tops twelve townhouses or cottages or sits on land split off within the past five years. From January 1, 2027, deed rules and homeowner group rules that allow one house but block these smaller homes are void. The law also limits how much parking a city can require for single room housing, and sets time limits for deciding land use applications. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 31-12, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 3521, which changes what happens to the deposit a renter pays to hold a home. If the applicant walks away after finding the place has serious habitability defects, the landlord may no longer keep the money. A landlord who must repay now has five business days rather than four. Missing that deadline, unless an act of God caused it, costs a penalty equal to the deposit or whatever the parties agreed, whichever is larger. It applies to deposits taken from January 1, 2026. The Oregon House passed it 33-18, and it became law.

April 17, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 3054, which caps the yearly rent increase at six percent for people who rent space in manufactured home parks and floating home marinas with more than 30 spaces. A landlord may raise rent up to twelve percent instead, but only to pay for a big repair or upgrade, only once in five years, and only in place of that year's normal increase. Tenants in more than half the lived-in spaces must approve it by signed vote. That vote comes after the landlord shares the plan, the cost and the timeline, and meets with tenants. If the work is not mostly done within a year of the promised date, the landlord must pay the extra rent back without being asked. Landlords also may not demand an inside inspection when a tenant sells a home, or make a buyer do cosmetic work. The Oregon House passed it 33-26, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2964, which creates state loans for the early costs of building affordable homes, the money spent long before a shovel goes in. Loans can pay for architects, engineers, planners and lawyers. They can pay for studies of the site, market, traffic, soil and environment, and for permit fees and community outreach. They may not be used to buy land. The homes must stay affordable to low income families for a set period, and only nonprofits, tribes and like bodies can borrow. The Oregon House passed it 37-16, and it became law.

April 15, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1512, which reshapes Prosperity 10,000, the state program that helps people into work. The workforce commission must now award the money as grants to local workforce boards, which run the program. The purposes are rewritten. They include help navigating workforce programs, community-based career counseling and wraparound support. The program must widen access rather than serve only listed priority groups. Targets stay: at least 80 percent of participants must finish, and a set share must be women. Local boards must weigh how a funding bid shows it has reached priority groups in target industries. The Oregon House passed it 36-16, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 4013, which sets a floor under the limits on how many hours a child may work in Oregon. State rules on a minor's total working hours may not be looser than the federal Fair Labor Standards Act as it stood on January 1, 2026. The state labor bureau may still make them stricter. But it may do so only to keep up with a change in the federal Act or in state law that raises protection for minors. The old words allowing a different result under other Oregon law are struck out. The Oregon House passed it 36-22, and it became law.

February 10, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 3148, which names Oregon's phone and internet help for low-income households the Oregon Lifeline plan and adds a computer to it. A household can get one payment of up to $100 toward a new or refurbished desktop, laptop or tablet, plus items to go with it such as a keyboard, mouse or assistive software. The benefit comes once. The utility regulator may hire outside help to run it, and may vary the ordinary assistance by what the service costs. The Oregon House passed it 37-14, and it became law.

June 24, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 3644, which sets up a statewide shelter program run by the state housing department, meant to cut the number of people sleeping outside and move them into stable housing. The state is split into regions, each with a coordinator, a local government or nonprofit that writes an assessment and a plan, hands out the money and reports every year. Funding runs through agreements of five to six years, which the department may renew. At least 70 percent of each region's shelter money must go to shelters that run on low-barrier terms, meaning they turn away as few people as possible. The Oregon House passed it 33-11, and it became law.

June 23, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 916, which lets workers draw unemployment pay during a labor dispute, which Oregon law had barred. Workers shut out by a lockout are no longer disqualified at all. Workers on strike lose the first week, then may draw benefits for up to ten more weeks, or eight if the state's unemployment fund is on one of its stronger tax schedules when the strike starts. The law defines strike, lockout and labor dispute for the first time in this part of the code. The Oregon House passed it again 35-22 under the conference committee report, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 3024, which ends an extra penalty in Oregon's jobless pay system. A worker cut off for misconduct, or for a felony or theft at work, used to lose part of the year's total pay as well. The cut was eight times the weekly amount, and it stuck even after the worker earned their way back on. This law wipes out that extra cut. Being cut off in the first place still stands, so a worker must still work their way back on. The Oregon House passed it 35-22, and it became law.

March 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 141, which builds a common yardstick for how Oregon school districts are doing. The State Board of Education must set statewide targets, and the education department must then set targets for groups of similar districts and growth targets for each one. Districts that take state school money must measure their results against them, overall and for particular groups of students. Two new measures join the list: how many eighth graders are proficient in math, and how regularly the youngest children attend. The Oregon House passed it 39-15, and it became law.

June 16, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 982, which sets conditions before a school district may spend public money placing a student in an out-of-state residential facility. The facility must meet Oregon's licensing standards, and the district must hold a current contract with it. That contract has to make the facility hand over a list of every other body it is placing children for, and give the district notice of problems. The rules do not reach another state's school for deaf or blind students. The Oregon House passed it 44-12, and it became law.

May 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 3025, which changes how Oregon works out the size of its main college grant for students with financial need. The old law split the cost of education three ways between the student's family, the federal government and the state, and that formula is gone. The higher education commission now sets each award on how much the student is enrolled for and an analysis of their need. It may also give the grant to students in programs that do not lead to a degree. The Oregon House passed it 34-22, and it became law.

March 31, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 243, which bans devices that make a gun fire faster, such as bump stocks, forced reset triggers, trigger cranks and auto sears. Bringing one into Oregon, making one or selling one is now a felony. Simply having one is a misdemeanor. Police may have one only with their agency's approval, and owners of federally registered machine guns may keep one only if their registered gun needs it to work. Cities, counties and districts may also bar people with a concealed handgun license from carrying inside a building they use for official meetings, so long as they post signs at the doors and a notice online. The law set March 15, 2026 as the date the permit-to-buy and large-magazine rules from Ballot Measure 114 start to apply. The Oregon House passed it 33-10, and it became law.

June 25, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 4127, which keeps state money going to reproductive health clinics that federal law has cut off from Medicaid. The Oregon Health Authority must set up a way to pay these nonprofit clinics for each service. The money must be state money, never federal Medicaid money. The authority pays the clinics itself, even for patients in a care organization. At least once every two years it must check that the rates are high enough to keep care within reach. Claims reach back to July 4, 2025. A care organization may not take back money it already paid a clinic just because the clinic lost its federal funding. The Oregon House passed it 34-20, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1507, which makes Oregon tax income that new federal breaks had freed, and pays some of it back to low-paid workers. Interest on a car loan that a taxpayer deducted on their federal return must be added back to income on their Oregon return. So must any gain on qualified small business stock that federal law let them leave out. Both apply from the 2026 tax year. Oregon also refuses the federal bonus depreciation write-off. In the other direction the Act raises Oregon's earned income tax credit, which goes to working people on low pay, and adds a credit for creating new jobs. The Oregon House passed it 34-21, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 4138, which requires officers policing in Oregon to be easy to identify. On duty and doing enforcement work, an officer must wear a uniform. It must show their last name or a unique number, the name of their agency, and an issued badge. Undercover work, escort details, detective work and off-duty emergencies are left out. Agencies must publish a written policy limiting face coverings. An officer may not wear one that hides their face, except in narrow cases such as guarding against harm. None at all is allowed where ballots are being collected or counted. The rules reach federal and out-of-state agencies too. Public workers may not knowingly help such an agency act against a person's rights. A court may be asked to stop a breach. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 34-18, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1191, which says that telling someone what their civil or constitutional rights are is not a crime. Oregon law makes it a crime to obstruct government or court business, to refuse to help a peace officer, and to interfere with an officer. This law carves the act of informing a person of their rights out of all three. It covers conduct from the day the law took effect. The Oregon House passed it 32-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 867, which gives the State Board of Education more ways to act when a school is found to have discriminated. The board may order the school to adopt or change a policy, train staff, publish information or take expert help. Sometimes the discrimination costs a student a class, an activity, or full use of a school service. In those cases the board may order the school to give the student what was missed, or to pay back what the family spent getting it elsewhere. The law also widens the state education department's power to look into reports of abuse and sexual conduct in schools. The Oregon House passed it 35-15, and it became law.

May 12, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4179, which extends the state's legal shield to doctors at nonprofits set up by Oregon Health and Science University. Such a group counts as one the university created, so long as the university is a corporate member of it. A doctor, naturopathic doctor or dentist who treats patients there is then treated as a state worker on duty. That matters for a patient who sues. The state tort claims law applies instead, and it caps what an injured patient may win. Two parts of the professional corporation law, which would otherwise set their liability, no longer apply. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 36-16, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 4089, which sharpens the criminal law against employers who take work and do not pay for it. The crime of theft of services now reaches anyone who gets paid-for services by force, threat, trickery or any other way of dodging payment. A criminal case does not block a civil one. The worker, a contractor, a representative or the state labor commissioner may still sue for wages, penalties or damages. A state network must build ways to gather and share facts on people who may be doing this and breaking tax or employment law. It also becomes a crime for a builder to knowingly hire a labor contractor who has no state license. The Oregon House passed it 33-9, and it became law.

February 27, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1173, which shields hospitals, clinics and medical practices from product liability claims over things they hand a patient. A health care facility no longer counts as the maker, seller or distributor of a product if it supplied the item as part of care and had no hand in designing or making it. The shield drops away for anything the facility sells to the general public in a retail setting. It applies to lawsuits filed on or after the law took effect. The Oregon House passed it 39-12, and it became law.

June 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1168, which bars paying home health and home hospice staff by the visit instead of by the hour. Oregon already barred this for nurses. The law now covers the wider staff who deliver those services. It also lists who is left out: home care workers, direct caregivers at in-home care agencies, doctors, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, volunteers, and anyone a union contract treats as a supervisor. The Oregon House passed it 38-12, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 3865, which extends Oregon's telemarketing rules to text messages and sets limits on when sales pitches may arrive. A seller may not call or text before 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m., or reach the same person more than three times in 24 hours, unless they have done business with that person in the past 18 months. Lying about who is calling, or about why, is barred outright. Charities, public agencies, polling, business to business contact and direct replies to a customer's own message are all outside the rules. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 33-9, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 3410, which closes gaps in Senate Bill 951, the law passed the same session that stops outside investors running medical practices. The ban on owning most of a practice now reaches contractors of a management company, not just its shareholders, directors, officers and staff. It also bites even where one of those people would otherwise qualify for an exemption. The changes take hold only if Senate Bill 951 becomes law, which it did. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 38-13, and it became law.

June 24, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 150, which stops people charging veterans for help with a benefits claim, work the Department of Veterans Affairs does for free. No one may take payment for preparing or presenting a claim, or for advising or representing a veteran on one. The same goes for handling an appeal of a first decision, or for referring a veteran to someone who does that work, unless federal law or this law allows it. Promising that a veteran is sure to get a benefit, or a particular level of one, is barred. So is charging an unreasonable fee, which a court judges on the work done, the difficulty, the time spent and what it achieved. The Oregon House passed it 32-22, and it became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 430, which requires anyone who sells goods or services online to show the full price up front, including every fee a buyer has to pay. Three things may still be added on: government taxes and fees, the real cost of shipping or of providing the service, and a service fee that depends on distance or on what the buyer picks. That service fee must be shown clearly before the buyer agrees to pay. Breaking the rule breaks Oregon's consumer protection law. Banks, mortgage lenders and consumer finance firms are exempt where listed federal disclosure laws already apply. So are internet providers that follow the federal broadband label rules. The Oregon House passed it 35-15, and it became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 605, which bars anyone from telling a credit bureau that an Oregon resident owes a medical debt, or how much. It also bars credit bureaus from putting medical debt in a credit report. Breaking either rule breaks Oregon's consumer protection law, and a court may wipe out the debt so that it cannot be collected. The law also widened what counts as medical debt. It now covers money owed for treatment, devices, supplies, drugs or care, not just hospital and nonprofit clinic bills, and it takes in debt on a credit card meant for medical bills. The Oregon House passed it 34-17, and it became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 426, which makes the main contractor on a building job answer for wages a subcontractor fails to pay. The main contractor is the firm that signs the deal with the owner. A worker who is owed can act through a building trades union, or another representative they pick. The duty covers work on buildings, other structures and land. It reaches deals to build, rebuild, alter, maintain, move or tear down. The Oregon House passed it 31-26, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 951, which stops outside investors from running medical practices through a management company. A firm that handles payroll, hiring and other back-office work for a practice may no longer own most of it. Nor may it run the practice, vote its shares, or control who buys its shares or assets. The law also voids noncompete deals that stop a doctor or nurse from working elsewhere. Gag clauses between a licensed clinician and a management firm, hospital or hospital clinic are void too. Both bans have exceptions, mainly for clinicians who hold a real ownership stake, and for terms agreed to settle a dispute. The Oregon House passed it 41-16, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 906, which makes employers give every new hire a written guide to the pay and deductions on a pay stub. It must set out the pay period and each kind of pay the job may carry, such as hourly, salary, shift differentials, piece rate and commission. It must also list every deduction, what each is for, any allowance counted toward the minimum wage, and what each payroll code means. Employers may post it or share a link instead of handing it over, and must update it each January. The labor bureau must publish a model in English and Spanish, and may fine an employer $500. The Oregon House passed it 35-17, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 2563, which gives home and other personal insurance customers the right to ask in writing why their premium rose at renewal. The insurer must reply within 20 days, in plain words, naming the factors that mattered most, up to four of them. Renewal offers and the first bill after renewal must say clearly that the customer can ask. The right does not reach new policies, health, life, disability or long-term care cover, umbrella policies, boats and recreational vehicles, or changes the customer made. Insurers need not reveal credit scoring models, eligibility rules or trade secrets. It starts on September 1, 2026. The Oregon House passed it 33-22, and it became law.

April 8, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 3550, which takes minor league baseball players out of Oregon's minimum wage and workplace rules. It covers a player signed to a pro sports club who is also covered by a union contract that sets pay and working conditions. State rules on pay floors, overtime and meal breaks no longer reach those players. The Oregon House passed it 35-15, and it became law.

March 25, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 3336, which makes big power companies show whether cheaper fixes could carry more power before they build new lines. The rule covers a company that sells more than two million megawatt hours a year. When it files a grid plan, it must weigh the cost and timing of options that squeeze more out of the lines it has. One is restringing a line with wire that carries at least 75 percent more power. The company must also file a plan for using such tools where they pay off. The Oregon House agreed to the Senate's changes 41-12, and it became law.

June 16, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted for House Bill 2931, which updates the law for replacing the Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and Washington. It rewrites the legal description of the work to match what is now being built. It also lets the state transport board sign deals with Washington or its agent. Oregon's share of the tolls may be spent only on what the state constitution allows road money to be spent on. Tolls must stay high enough to pay off the bonds raised for the work. The Oregon House passed it 31-24, and it became law.

May 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted against House Bill 4018, which puts off Oregon's new campaign money disclosure rules by three years. The reporting duties and the public campaign finance dashboard passed in 2024 were to start on January 1, 2028. They now start on January 1, 2031, and apply to elections after January 1, 2032. Changes to the complaint and civil penalty rules slip from 2027 to 2031 as well. The Act does set out what the system will require. Once a group spends $50,000 backing or opposing a candidate on its own, it must name every donor who gave $5,000 or more. It also treats two membership groups run by the same people as one for contribution limits, unless each decides on its own whom to back. The Oregon House passed it 39-19, and it became law.

March 5, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4116, which pulls Oregon out of a federal rule that let lenders charge rates Oregon does not allow. Lawmakers declare that the state does not want section 521 of a 1980 federal banking law to apply to consumer loans made here. Oregon's own lending law now covers anyone in the business of making consumer loans of $50,000 or less. It applies where the borrower lives in Oregon. It also covers agents, brokers and go-betweens for such a lender. Rights a lender holds under another state or federal law are left alone. The lender must be following that law. The Oregon House passed it 31-24, and it became law.

February 17, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 726, which makes the city landfill in Benton County watch for methane leaking out of its surface and plug the leaks. State rule makers set the terms. The search must use modern tools that show where gas escapes and how fast, such as satellites, aircraft, drones or remote sensors. It must cover the whole surface, and the results go to the state. The law is written to reach only landfills in that one county. The Oregon House passed it 31-24, and it became law.

June 2, 2025

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