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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, June 1, 2017 Governor signs transgender equity bill into law woman but still hasn’t been able to change her North Carolina birth records after 17 years because she hasn’t undergone a sex-change operation, which the state says must also be confirmed through a notarized letter from their doctor. The same require- ments apply for driver’s licenses, although Rice got it done anyway thanks to the kindness of a North Carolina DMV employee years ago. “I was going to have a driver’s license that has my female face on it, my female name, but it’s still going to say ‘M’ and let’s say I get pulled over for some reason and maybe a police officer looks at it and says ‘what’s going on here?’ that was terrifying,” Rice said. HB 2673 passed the Democratic-controlled Oregon Legislature earlier this month with some Republican support at a time when, two By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill that will make it easier for trans- gender people in Oregon to shield any updates they make to their birth certificates, a process typically conducted through the court system without privacy from public view. The measure, which takes effect next year, makes Oregon the second state after California to adopt laws specifically designed to help mitigate potential discrim- ination against transgender individuals from employers, landlords or anyone else who is otherwise able to dig up birth-record changes through public record. The new law eliminates the requirement that changes to someone’s name or gender identity must be posted AP Photo/Kristena Hansen Gov. Kate Brown, seated, signs House Bill 2673 in Salem, Wednesday, making the process more private for transgender individuals to change their birth certificate records. The new law makes Oregon the second state with an alternative option for transgen- der people to update their birth records. publicly by the courts. It also allows court cases involving gender identity changes on birth records to be sealed. It’s a minor tweak to state law that could have a big impact on the local transgender community, says 59-year-old Stacey Rice, executive co-director of Q Center, a Portland community support center for LGBTQ individuals. Rice is a transgender Amended tenant protections bill heads to Senate floor State will yield management of Elliott to a private company oversee public access and other basic, “custodial” tasks, but will not harvest timber on the land, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of State Lands. The Department of State Lands oversees state trust lands, including rangelands and forests such as the Elliott. State trust lands are constitu- tionally required to generate revenue for the Common School Fund, which is essentially an endowment for public K-12 education. For years, the Elliott generated revenues for the Common School Fund via timber harvests. It was not immediately apparent late Wednesday how, under an agreement with a private company that will not be harvesting timber or performing other revenue-generating activity on the forest, the arrange- ment with Titan-Kelly would meet the requirement that the land generate money for the Common School Fund. It has always cost money to manage the Elliott, said Julie Curtis, a spokeswoman for the Department of State Lands. By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — Although the governor and environmental groups like to say that the state land board has decided to keep the Elliott State Forest “in public hands,” come July, the 82,500-acre tract near the Southern Oregon coast will be managed by a private company. The Oregon Department of Forestry has managed the Elliott for decades, but the Department of State Lands is now finalizing a contract with Titan-Kelly, LLC, for custodial management of the Elliott State Forest. The agreement would be for one year, effective July 1, with an option to renew up to five years. While the dotted line has not yet been signed, the agreement is expected to cost the state $780,000 per year. Titan-Kelly, LLC is based in Pleasant Valley, according to an online directory compiled by Asso- ciated Oregon Loggers, a statewide trade association. The company will maintain roads, do some reforestation, SALEM — A Senate committee has stripped a tenant protections bill of a key provision that would have allowed cities to impose limits on rent increases. The Senate Committee on Human Services voted 4-to-1 Wednesday to make changes to House Bill 2004 A. The most significant change denied cities the authority to impose rent control. Instead, senators added a limit on the frequency, but not the amount, of rent increases allowed per year. Landlords would be restricted to raising the rent once per year, but they could hike the price of rent by an unlimited amount. “I just cannot express enough how important this is for constituents in my district. They are being displaced,” said Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham. “We as Oregonians need to make sure there is housing for everyone, and I think this is a good step forward.” 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Teresa Alonso Leon, a Democrat from Woodburn, and Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland filed the bill in the House as immigration enforce- ment increases under President Donald Trump. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have even gone into the Mult- nomah County Courthouse in Portland to detain people when they showed up for scheduled court appear- ances. Under the bill, intro- duced on behalf of Gov. Kate Brown and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, the date, time or location of a person’s hearings or appointments that are not already public record cannot be disclosed by the public body. 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A Republican lawmaker who advocates enforcement of America’s immigration laws said the state should comply with federal law. “If you read federal law, it says not only is it illegal to be in the country without authorization and if you’re caught you have to go back, but it is also illegal to harbor someone,” Rep. Sal Esquivel, from the southwestern Oregon town of Medford, said in a phone interview. 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Voters approved a measure banning same-sex measure in 2004. It was over- turned a decade later. For Oregon, Brown said in emotional remarks that the transgender equity bill carries broader significance in the aftermath of last week’s deadly stabbings of two men trying to defend two teenage girls from racial and religious slurs on a Portland light-rail train. “Hate and discrimination have no place in our Oregon,” Brown said. Brown, herself a bisexual, became the nation’s first open- ly-LGBTQ elected governor last November and Democrat Tina Kotek is the first openly lesbian House Speaker. Lawmakers aim to increase protections of immigrants The bill, passed by the House of Representatives in April, now heads to the Senate floor for a vote. The Senate changes also would need House approval. The bill still outlaws no-cause evictions and requires landlords with more than five units to pay a month’s rent to a tenant when the tenant is forced to move out because the landlord is changing the property’s use, renovating, demolishing or moving in. Other Senate changes would extend the grace period for a landlord to end a month-to-month tenancy without cause from six months to nine months. Landlords also could force a tenant out at the end of a lease without paying reloca- tion costs, provided that the landlord gives the tenant 90 days’ notice of the landlord’s intent not to renew the lease. Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, said he was disappointed that many of the protections have been whittled away from the bill, but he acknowledged some protections are better than none. By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage, the nation remains largely divided as to how to balance LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms. This year about 30 states introduced roughly 130 anti-LGBTQ bills, about half last year’s figure, according to the D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign. Most of the measures have died, but legislatures in South Dakota, Alabama and Texas passed bills providing protections for faith-based adoption agencies that do not want to place children with gay or lesbian adoptive parents. Opposite scenarios are playing out in other states like Nevada, where GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a law earlier this month banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. And this week, Republican Congressman Scott Taylor of Virginia 2 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: June will start with thunderstorms rumbling over the Gulf Coast and mid-Mississippi Valley today. The northern High Plains will heat up ahead of showers and thunderstorms rattling the Rockies and Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 101° in Needles, Calif. Low 28° in Leadville, Colo. 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