by Zachary Sielicky | Mar 16, 2022 | Press Room blog, Public Policy blog
Governor visits local businesses, affordable housing, workforce development, child care programs in Bend (Bend, OR) — Governor Kate Brown today signed House Bill 4005, the $100 million child care investment package, at Bloom Children’s Center in Bend. The Governor was...
by Zachary Sielicky | Mar 4, 2022 | Press Room blog, Public Policy blog
NEWS RELEASEMarch 3, 2022Media Contact:Liz Merah, 503-877-8287Charles Boyle, 503-931-7773 (Salem, OR) — After the passage of the Private Forest Accord package, Senate Bills 1501 and 1502 and House Bill 4055, Governor Kate Brown issued the following statement:“Thank...
by Zachary Sielicky | Feb 24, 2022 | Press Room blog, Public Policy blog
Salem, OR—Governor Kate Brown today announced that she will be lifting Oregon’s COVID-19 emergency declaration, effective April 1. COVID-19 hospitalizations and case numbers continue to drop rapidly across Oregon as the Omicron variant recedes.“Over the past six...
by Zachary Sielicky | Feb 23, 2022 | Public Policy blog
Health Care SB 1530 – This bill would require health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments. It would require small and large employers and individual health benefit plans to cover a wide range of fertility services without cost...
by Zachary Sielicky | Jan 13, 2022 | Coronavirus, Public Policy blog
The Supreme Court ruled today that Biden’s emergency temporary standard mandating vaccines for large employers was outside of OSHA’s authority and power. “Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given...
by Zachary Sielicky | Dec 10, 2021 | Press Room blog, Public Policy blog
NEWS RELEASEDecember 10, 2021Media Contact:Liz Merah, 503-877-8287 Legislature to address winter evictions, drought relief, illegal cannabis proliferation and humanitarian impacts, and support for Afghan refugee resettlement (Coronado, CA) — After conversations with...
