July 12, 2017
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Legislative Highs and Lows
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es, chief executive officer and
president for Northwest Perma-
nente, said that the bill represents
an investment in Oregon’s future
economic health.
“When kids are covered, there’s
an immediate and long-term re-
turn on investment,” Dacones
said. “They tend to have higher
incomes and surpass their fam-
ilies’ incomes, so as adults they
pay more taxes.”
House Bill 2355 is also headed
to the governor’s desk. The mea-
sure, which is known as Fair Shot
for All, will require law enforce-
ment agencies across the state to
begin collecting demographic data
from officer-initiated traffic and
pedestrian stops. The data will be
analyzed by the Oregon Crimi-
nal Justice Commission, which
will then make recommendations
based on their findings to the
governor and relevant legislative
councils.
The measure also requires cul-
tural competency training for all
state and local law enforcement
officers.
Oregon also joined a number of
states that allow judges to remove
firearms from individuals who are
exhibiting warning signs that pose
a danger to themselves or others.
A law that would require that all
of the state’s grand jury proceed-
ings be recorded is also awaiting
Brown’s signature. The bill passed
in the wake of the police shooting
of unarmed black teenager Quan-
ice Hayes of Portland, who died in
February. A grand jury opted not
to criminally charge the officer in-
volved in Hayes’ death.
The session, which ended three
days before its constitutionally
mandated deadline of July 10, also
saw the passage of a landmark
transportation package. The age
for tobacco sales was also raised
from 18 to 21.
The Legislature failed to act,
however, on creating protections
for the state’s roughly 594,000
renting households. Stable Homes
for Oregon Families is a diverse
coalition of stakeholders, includ-
ing labor unions, the Community
Alliance of Tenants, the Asian-Pa-
cific American Network of Or-
egon and OPAL Environmental
Justice.
In a statement, the coalition
said that the Legislature’s failure
to pass House Bill 2004, which
would have lifted the statewide
ban on rent control in its original
form, represented a “failure of
leadership.”
Despite the lack of renter pro-
tections, a Multnomah County
Circuit Court judge did rule on
Friday that Portland’s emergency
ordinance requiring landlords to
pay tenants’ relocation fees in cer-
tain circumstances is indeed legal,
and does not violate the statewide
ban on rent control.
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