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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
State budget hangs on May revenue forecast
the most recent quarterly revenue
forecast, which was issued in
February.
According to Sen. Richard
Devlin, D-Tualatin, one
of the co-chairs of the
Joint Ways and Means
Committee, which writes
the state’s budget, the
forecast that comes out
May 16 gives budget
writers “the most accurate
picture” of what’s to
come, once most income
tax returns have been
filed.
The state’s general fund is
largely sourced from income taxes;
the deadline to file is April 18.
With both budget cuts and new
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — While lawmakers
are now likely negotiating the
state’s budget behind closed doors,
Oregonians may have a better idea
of what to expect once state econo-
mists present the quarterly revenue
forecast in mid-May.
Legislators are required to pass
a balanced budget, but face an
approximately $1.6 billion shortfall
between what the state expects to
bring through the general fund and
lottery funds, and what it would
take to maintain existing services.
Between those two funds,
available revenue is expected to be
about $20.99 billion, according to
taxes still in the realm of possibility
— and with both options imbued
with political consequences —
Oregon lawmakers could turn to a
strategy they’ve tapped
in the past: establishing
a
bicameral
“super
committee” to hammer
out big-ticket policy items.
Such super commit-
tees, though not common,
have emerged in prior
legislative sessions. They
can form when legislators
think it could “help break
down some of the institu-
tional barriers” between the Oregon
House and Senate, said Jim Moore,
professor of political science and
director of the Tom McCall Center
Oregon lawmakers try
to stem opioid epidemic
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Seeking to stem the opioid
epidemic in Oregon and prevent overdose
deaths, the House of Representatives
unanimously approved a proposed law
on Monday that would provide safe-use
recommendations to those who prescribe
such pain-killing drugs.
However, provisions in the bill
that would have limited health-care
practitioners to prescribing a maximum
seven-day supply and would have crim-
inalized improperly prescribing opioids
were earlier stripped by the House Health
Care Committee. The Oregon Medical
Association had lobbied against some of
the provisions.
The state attorney general’s office had
strongly backed the measure because “the
risk of overdose and addiction is serious.”
“In 2014, enough opioids were
prescribed in Oregon for nearly every
person in the state to have a bottle,”
Assistant Attorney General David Hart
said in written testimony.
More than 15,000 people died in
America from overdoses involving
prescription opioids in 2015, according
to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. In Oregon, more drug
poisoning deaths involve prescription
opioids than any other type of drug. The
Oregon Health Authority says an average
of three Oregonians die every week from
prescription opioid overdose.
The original bill, sponsored by Rep.
Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, and House
Majority Leader Jennifer Williamson,
D-Portland, would have limited prescrip-
tions to seven days, unless a health-care
practitioner determined more was needed
for an acute medical condition or for
various types of pain, like that associated
with cancer. It also would have made it
a crime to refuse to furnish records or to
prevent inspections.
In a Feb. 28 memo to the health care
committee, Oregon Medical Association
general counsel Mark Bonanno said: “We
do not believe criminalizing prescription
writing achieves better patient care. In
fact, if practitioners fear prosecution
for writing prescriptions for opioids or
opiates, we expect the pendulum for the
public health issue of properly treating
pain will swing all the way back to
under-treatment of pain.”
Under the amended bill, the Oregon
Medical Board, the Oregon State Board
of Nursing and the Oregon Board of
Dentistry would provide notice to practi-
tioners they regulate of recommendations
for safe use of opioids.
Among the guidance contained in
Oregon Opioid Prescribing Guidelines:
Recommendations for the Safe Use of
Opioid Medications:
• Consider opioid therapy only if
expected benefits for both pain and func-
tion are anticipated to outweigh risks
• Prescribe the lowest effective dosage
• If clinicians suspect their patient
might be sharing or selling opioids or
intentionally misusing them, clinicians
should consider urine testing to consider
whether opioids can be discontinued
abruptly or tapered
• Clinicians should avoid prescribing
opioids and benzodiazepines (a class of
psychoactive drugs).
Now that it has passed the House, the
bill next goes to the Oregon Senate.
Oregon set to shield marijuana
user data from U.S. officials
Gresham, Portland settle
lawsuit over filming of police
SALEM (AP) — Oregon state lawmakers
have given final approval to a bill that would
shield the names, birthdates and other identifying
information of marijuana users from being
accessed by federal drug agents amid worries of
heightened enforcement.
The bill was approved 53-5 by the Oregon
House on Monday and is largely in response
to mixed signals about the new White House
administration’s stance on the federal marijuana
prohibition.
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is expected to
sign it into law.
Oregon pot shops would have 30 days to
destroy their recreational pot customers’ personal
data from their records and be banned from
keeping such records thereon.
Data collection about pot clients is already
illegal or discouraged in Alaska, Colorado and
Washington state.
Recreational marijuana is legal in those states
and sold from stores.
Historical mill that operated
for 73 years being torn apart
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Monday’s announcement from Mayor Ted
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
Sun and some
clouds
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
59° 44°
58° 42°
THURSDAY
A shower and
t-storm around
FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 37°
52° 31°
58° 37°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
61° 45°
62° 43°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
56°
60°
87° (1925)
38°
38°
24° (2010)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.13"
0.18"
0.44"
6.45"
4.02"
4.40"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
62°
63°
80° (1985)
41°
39°
22° (1933)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.05"
0.05"
0.24"
4.98"
2.80"
3.35"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Apr 19
Apr 26
First
May 2
58° 34°
62° 39°
Seattle
56/45
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Records
62° 40°
Today
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cool
Spokane
Wenatchee
52/39
55/40
Tacoma
Moses
56/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 57/44
55/43
57/43
56/41
58/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/47
61/46 Lewiston
62/45
Astoria
60/44
58/46
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
58/46
Pendleton 50/37
The Dalles 62/43
59/44
59/45
La Grande
Salem
56/42
56/46
Albany
Corvallis 57/46
57/46
John Day
54/42
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
59/44
55/46
49/38
Caldwell
Burns
58/43
49/37
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
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49
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
70
82
76
61
79
61
60
68
66
73
56
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WINDS
Medford
59/47
Klamath Falls
50/40
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
NE 6-12
NE 6-12
S 6-12
S 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
6:17 a.m.
7:37 p.m.
8:14 p.m.
6:51 a.m.
Full
Coastal Oregon: Occasional rain and drizzle
today; however, a shower in spots across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Some sun to-
day with a shower in spots in the afternoon.
Eastern Washington: Sun and some clouds
today.
May 10
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
an afternoon shower in spots across the
south.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today;
periods of rain, but dry across interior
locations.
Cascades: A few showers today, except oc-
casional rain and drizzle in the south.
increments, with the biggest
components of the budget typically
coming first.
Once the most significant pieces
of the budget are passed — such as
education, public safety and human
service programs — budgets for
smaller agencies and programs fall
into place, Moore said.
This session, lawmakers are
also trying to craft a transportation
funding package. Health care costs
are another significant challenge for
the state as the federal government
gradually tapers its support to states
for the Medicaid expansion.
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Such a mega-committee could
include party leadership from
both sides of the aisle from each
chamber, and possibly members of
key policy committees — such as
healthcare or education — Moore
said.
But if the legislative session
starts Feb. 1, why isn’t there more
public information about what the
budget will actually be until three
months later?
“When you come out with a
budget, you’re, in effect, making
promises,” Moore said. If not all of
them can be kept, lawmakers “just
don’t want to go that far.”
Oregon passes its budget in
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
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National Summary: Warmth will extend from the Deep South to coastal New England
today. Showers and thunderstorms will extend from the eastern Great Lakes to southern
Texas. Rain is forecast to approach the Northwest coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 92° in McAllen, Texas
Low 5° in Tuolumne Meadows, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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68
84
57
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62
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Hi
75
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68
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61
82
68
66
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70
64
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81
74
61
85
47
63
85
81
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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