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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 Senate passed it 16-12, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 4142, which lets patients use medical marijuana where they live. It is known as Ryan's Law. A listed care organization or residential facility must let a qualifying patient or resident use medical marijuana on site. Each one must write a policy. The policy covers how the marijuana is bought, stored, given and thrown away. It must set clear steps for handling it. It must keep patients safe through proper storage and correct doses. It must say how anything left over is disposed of. Staff who give direct care must be trained, on top of any training the law already requires. The Oregon Senate passed it 20-8, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1568, which widens what the Oregon Health Plan and private health plans must cover around birth. The state must write rules by January 2028 setting who counts as a birth doula and who counts as a postpartum doula. Doula services must be available without a referral or a signature from another provider. Coverage must run to at least 12 visits or 24 hours of care, on top of labor and delivery, whatever the outcome of the birth. More hours can be approved where they are needed. Lactation counselors are added as a covered service too. The wider coverage reaches plan contracts made or renewed from January 2028. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 23-7, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 4115, which changes how often caregivers are re-checked and how far back some providers get paid. A state criminal records check for a listed caregiver now lasts three years, not 18 months. The listed group is wide. It takes in home care workers and personal support workers. It takes in staff at adult foster homes, home health agencies and in-home care agencies. It takes in mental health and addiction treatment workers, including peer support specialists. The law also makes a coordinated care organization pay a behavioral health provider who works for one of its contracting agencies back to the day the provider applied to join the state Medicaid program. That covers only applications that earned a provider number. The Oregon Senate passed it 22-8, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1575, which pauses new hospice licenses in Oregon while the state writes tougher rules. The health authority may not grant a new hospice license until those rules are in place. It has 24 months to finish them. An applicant must now report a poor record in any state. That means a license taken away or put on hold. It means a finding or penalty from a regulator. It means any ruling or deal over health care fraud. And it means being shut out of Medicare or Medicaid. The in-person visit to every licensed hospice is kept. Four groups may still be licensed during the pause. One is anyone offering to serve an area or group that is short of care. The Oregon Senate passed it 19-8, and it became law.

February 24, 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 Senate passed it 17-11, and it became law.

February 19, 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 Senate passed it 19-10, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 598, which makes a health plan that pays for drugs cover at least one non-opioid pain drug for each opioid it covers. The choice must be clinically appropriate, which means backed by accepted medical guidance. A plan may still apply its usual controls, such as prior approval, step therapy, copays and deductibles. But those controls may not be tighter than the ones the plan puts on the matching opioid. The Oregon Senate passed it 23-6, and it became law.

June 23, 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 Senate passed it 17-10, and it became law.

June 16, 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 Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

June 9, 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 Senate passed it 17-13, and it became law.

May 28, 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 Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 4144, which makes battery makers pay to collect and recycle what they sell. A covered maker may not sell batteries in Oregon unless it joins a battery producer group. The same goes for products that come with a battery. That group is a nonprofit. Five or more makers set it up to run one statewide collection and recycling program for them all. The state environment agency must sign off on the plan before the program starts. Electronic devices already covered by Oregon's e-waste law are left out. The Oregon Senate passed it 20-8, and it became law.

March 5, 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 Senate passed it 20-9, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1590, which bars Oregon governments from helping sell off federal public land. No public body may spend money to help the federal government sell or hand land in Oregon to a private buyer. Nor may it use data, technology, equipment or staff for that. Nor may it sign an agreement to that end. Transfers to another public body are not covered. Neither are transfers to a recognized tribe in Oregon, or to a body they own. The rule reaches land run by four federal agencies. Land inside an urban growth boundary is exempt. So is land going to a named use, such as a road, a utility or a park. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 19-10, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 4060, which carves holes in Oregon's ban on selling fluorescent lamps, which contain mercury. The ban itself stays. No one may sell a new straight fluorescent tube. Nor a compact one with a pin, screw or bayonet base. But two new groups may keep buying them. One is school districts, for use in school buildings. The other is any owner whose Oregon buildings add up to more than a million square feet. Space held by a parent firm or a subsidiary counts toward that total. The Act also repeals a part of the 2025 law that had set the phase-out. The Oregon Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

March 3, 2026Opposes 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 Senate passed it 20-8, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Supports 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 Senate passed it 17-11, and it became law.

February 19, 2026Supports 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 Senate passed it 23-6, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports 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 Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

June 17, 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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

June 16, 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 Senate passed it 17-11, and it became law.

June 16, 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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-12, and it became law.

June 4, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 22-8, and it became law.

May 27, 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 Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

May 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1032, which bars stores from selling aerosol dusters containing the gas DFE to anyone under 18. These are the pressurized cans sold for cleaning electronics, and the gas in them is inhaled to get high. Before a sale the store must check a passport, a driver license from any state, or a state identification card. The law names the gas by its chemical formula and registry number, so the rule does not turn on the brand. The Oregon Senate passed it 22-6, and it became law.

April 23, 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 Senate passed it 21-7, and it became law.

February 27, 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 Senate passed it 17-13, and it became law.

February 16, 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 Senate passed it 19-10, and it became law.

June 2, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

February 25, 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 Senate passed it 16-13, and it became law.

June 27, 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 Senate passed it 17-10, and it became law.

June 25, 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 Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

June 23, 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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

June 23, 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 Senate passed it again 16-12 under the conference committee report, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 2957, which makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to sign a worker up to an agreement that shortens the deadline for bringing a claim the state labor bureau can enforce. Such deals had let employers cut the time a worker has to sue for discrimination or unpaid wages. The law also fixes when the bureau must send a worker the notice that lets them sue, and how long they then have. If the bureau finds strong evidence of a violation, or never investigated, the worker gets 90 days or whatever is left of the ordinary deadline, whichever is longer. If it finds no strong evidence, the worker may get up to a year. The Oregon Senate passed it 16-6, and it became law.

June 11, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 17-12, and it became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for 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 Senate passed it 20-9, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Opposes 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 Senate passed it 22-7, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 3179, which makes the state weigh what a rate rise does to households on top of what they already pay. The utility board decides whether a power or gas company's home rates are fair. In doing so it must now balance the investor's interest against the customer's. It must also look at the piled-up cost to homes, not just the one rise in front of it. The company must file its own study of that piled-up cost when it seeks a home rate rise and its profit rate is up for review. The Oregon Senate passed it 20-9, 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 Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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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 Senate passed it 20-9, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 1587, which stops government bodies handing personal data to data brokers for immigration enforcement. First the broker must put it in writing. It must say the data will not be sold or passed to anyone who would use it to enforce federal immigration law. If the body has good reason to think that promise is false, it must turn the broker down and keep the data. Three things are left alone. A release required by the public records law. One ordered by a court. And facts already open to anyone on the same terms. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 1594, which makes the state write its rules on immigration requests with immigrant families in mind. The Department of Justice must ask the state's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement for input. That applies each time it writes, reviews or updates the model policies. For the school version the Attorney General must also ask school board and school staff groups. The school model must say how to check that a warrant is valid. A superintendent must sign off on any response. A legal review first is urged. The model must say how staff should act. Every district must give the policy to its workers. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 1570, which tells hospitals to plan for the arrival of police. Each hospital must write down how it will respond. It must name at least one senior person to meet officers. It must also mark which parts of the building are not open to the public. Those must take in every area where entry is controlled, and every patient room. The rules cover federal, state and local agencies. A university police force is left out. Hospitals and health centers also may not punish a worker who hands out state material on immigrant rights and free legal help. That worker may complain to the state labor bureau. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

March 4, 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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

March 2, 2026Supports Immigration

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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 Senate passed it 23-7, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 19-10, and it became law.

June 27, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 2586, which lets people seeking asylum pay in-state tuition at Oregon's public universities and at Oregon Health and Science University. The law counts someone as an asylum seeker if they have an asylum application pending under federal law. The student must not have settled in another state before Oregon. Refugees and special immigrant visa holders already qualified, and this adds asylum seekers to that same group. It took effect as soon as it was signed. The Oregon Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

May 19, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 599, which bars a landlord from asking about the immigration or citizenship status of an applicant, a tenant, or anyone in their home. The one exception is where a federal rent aid program requires it. A landlord may not turn down an applicant who has no Social Security number or cannot prove lawful presence. The applicant must still show identification from a list in the law, such as a birth record, a visa, a taxpayer ID card or a passport. Landlords also may not reveal, or threaten to reveal, someone's status in order to harass, scare or punish them. A renter who is wronged can sue and recover costs and attorney fees. The Oregon Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

March 24, 2025Supports Immigration

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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 Senate passed it 20-9, and it became law.

June 24, 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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

June 23, 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 Senate passed it 17-12, and it became law.

June 19, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 2530, which helps schools run cameras on school bus stop arms, which catch drivers who pass a bus while children are getting on or off. A school may hire a private firm to install and run the cameras, but only in agreement with a police agency. In court a warning sign is presumed to have been posted and the bus lights presumed working and on, unless the driver shows otherwise. Fine money from a camera ticket must be passed on in full to the school that put the camera up. The Oregon Senate passed it 22-7, and it became law.

May 19, 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 Senate passed it 22-7, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 1523, which stops a landlord making an online portal the only way to rent a home. A landlord who takes applications through a portal must post a printable copy on their website, or send one within seven days of a written request. They must handle applications that come in outside the portal too. If a renter or applicant asks in writing, the landlord may not insist on the portal to prove who they are, to sign agreements, or to hand in papers. A landlord who breaks the rule owes the person their losses or $100, whichever is more. The law also widens the electronic payment fees a landlord may pass on. The Oregon Senate passed it 22-7, and it became law.

February 17, 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 Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

June 24, 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 Senate passed it 20-8, and it became law.

June 12, 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 Senate passed it 17-10, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 3144, which voids deed rules and homeowner group rules that let someone build a house on a lot but block a manufactured home or a factory-built structure there. The ban reaches only documents signed, adopted or amended on or after the day the law took effect, so it does not clear out restrictions already on the books. It covers accessory dwellings too. The law also pushes back the end date of an existing program for resolving disputes in manufactured home parks and marinas. The Oregon Senate passed it 21-9, and it became law.

May 27, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Supports 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 Senate passed it 19-10, and it became law.

June 26, 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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

June 12, 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 Senate passed it again 16-12 under the conference committee report, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

June 12, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

June 5, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

June 27, 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 Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4088, which shields reproductive and gender-affirming health care that is legal in Oregon. It says people may get this care here, give it, or help someone else get it. The care must come from a provider licensed here, and the patient must be in Oregon. The Governor may not hand a person over to another state for doing any of that. State and local bodies may not spend staff time, money or equipment to help a federal or out-of-state inquiry into that care. What is already public stays public. Court records of name and sex changes are kept private, and midwives who give this care are protected. The Oregon Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

March 5, 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 Senate passed it 17-13, and it became law.

February 16, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 1587, which stops government bodies handing personal data to data brokers for immigration enforcement. First the broker must put it in writing. It must say the data will not be sold or passed to anyone who would use it to enforce federal immigration law. If the body has good reason to think that promise is false, it must turn the broker down and keep the data. Three things are left alone. A release required by the public records law. One ordered by a court. And facts already open to anyone on the same terms. The Oregon Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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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 Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4114, which lets people sue an official who enters their property without a warrant. The right belongs to an owner, a resident, or anyone lawfully there who expects privacy. Property covers buildings, land, cars parked privately, places of worship, schools and medical sites. The entry must have been made under color of law. There must have been no court warrant and no recognized reason to skip one. A person who wins gets their actual losses, may get a court order, and is awarded legal fees. The suit may not be used against anyone who can already be sued under the federal civil rights law. It must be filed within two years. The Oregon Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4088, which shields reproductive and gender-affirming health care that is legal in Oregon. It says people may get this care here, give it, or help someone else get it. The care must come from a provider licensed here, and the patient must be in Oregon. The Governor may not hand a person over to another state for doing any of that. State and local bodies may not spend staff time, money or equipment to help a federal or out-of-state inquiry into that care. What is already public stays public. Court records of name and sex changes are kept private, and midwives who give this care are protected. The Oregon Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 2957, which makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to sign a worker up to an agreement that shortens the deadline for bringing a claim the state labor bureau can enforce. Such deals had let employers cut the time a worker has to sue for discrimination or unpaid wages. The law also fixes when the bureau must send a worker the notice that lets them sue, and how long they then have. If the bureau finds strong evidence of a violation, or never investigated, the worker gets 90 days or whatever is left of the ordinary deadline, whichever is longer. If it finds no strong evidence, the worker may get up to a year. The Oregon Senate passed it 16-6, and it became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 3187, which bars an employer or hiring agency from asking an applicant's age or birth date, or when they went to or finished school, until the first interview is over. Where there is no interview, the bar runs until a conditional job offer is made. They may still ask when the answer is needed to check a genuine job requirement or to follow another law. The law also drops an old rule that let apprenticeship programs turn away someone who could not finish the training before turning 70. The Oregon Senate passed it 20-9, and it became law.

May 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1098, which stops schools from refusing to pick or keep library books, textbooks and teaching materials because of who wrote them, or whose story they tell, when that person or group is protected by Oregon's school anti-discrimination law. People who are not responsible for choosing materials can no longer get a book pulled at will. A parent, guardian or school worker must ask in writing. A school or district committee must then review the request and publish a written reason before the book comes off the shelf. The same rules cover textbooks the State Board of Education picks. The Oregon Senate passed it 18-10, and it became law.

March 31, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4016, which makes big state contractors prove they have paid their taxes. The rule bites before an agency may sign, renew or extend a contract for goods, services or space. The provider must certify in writing, under penalty of perjury, that it is breaking none of the tax laws the Department of Revenue runs. It must also hand over a certificate from that department saying the same. Anyone holding at least a 20 percent stake in the provider must do both as well. The tax debts counted now include the penalties and interest added to the tax. Contracts with local governments are not covered. The Oregon Senate passed it 18-11, and it became law.

March 6, 2026Supports 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 Senate passed it 19-9, and it became law.

June 25, 2025Supports 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 Senate passed it 18-12, and it became law.

June 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 3912, which makes anyone who calls themselves a doctor in their health work say which field their doctorate is in. The label has to appear on all their material, which the law defines to include websites, social media, ads, billboards, signs, professional notices and name badges. It must be at least a quarter the size of the largest print used, and as easy to read in color, type and lighting. The Oregon Senate passed it 22-7, and it became law.

June 17, 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 Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

June 10, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-12, and it became law.

June 9, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 18-11, and it became law.

June 3, 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 Senate agreed to the House's changes 17-12, and it became law.

May 29, 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 Senate passed it 21-8, and it became law.

April 8, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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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 Senate passed it 17-12, and it became law.

May 22, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted for House Bill 3233, which pushes Oregon to plan passenger rail with its neighbors and report on how it runs. The transportation department must work with Washington State and British Columbia on a shared approach to the rail corridor they share. The state rail plan must now include ways to add capacity, plans to upgrade track and related works, and a summary of federal grant bids made, won and lost. Every quarter the department must tell the Legislature how many people rode and how often trains ran on time. The Oregon Senate passed it 16-12, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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