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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.”
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
FRIDAY
Variable cloudiness
Partly sunny and
pleasant
71° 52°
75° 50°
SATURDAY
Sunny to partly
cloudy and nice
SUNDAY
Not as warm with a
shower
MONDAY
An a.m. t-storm;
mostly cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 55°
70° 45°
71° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 49°
78° 55°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
67°
74°
100° (1986)
50°
50°
34° (1916)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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0.01"
0.94"
1.40"
9.15"
5.54"
6.51"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
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76°
100° (1986)
52°
51°
35° (1928)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Year to date
Last year to date
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Trace
0.43"
1.12"
6.31"
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
June 1
June 9
73° 48°
78° 49°
Seattle
67/54
ALMANAC
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8:37 p.m.
12:52 p.m.
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Tacoma
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Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 62/41
The Dalles 78/55
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 69/49
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John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
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Spokane
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A shower across the north
today; cloudy in central parts. Partly sunny
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Showers around
in central parts today; a thunderstorm in spots
and Mostly cloudy across the north elsewhere.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a couple of showers.
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today;
a thunderstorm in spots in the north, near
the Idaho border and in the mountains.
Cascades: A couple of showers today,
except a shower or thunderstorm in spots in
central parts.
Northern California: Partial sunshine today;
warmer. Patchy clouds tonight.
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by state or federal law,”
a public body may not
disclose for the purpose of
immigration enforcement,
a person’s address, work-
place or work schedule,
school and contact infor-
mation.
A public body would
also be prohibited from
inquiring about a person’s
citizenship or immigration
status except when deter-
mining benefit eligibility
or as required by state or
federal law.
Oregon state law and
federal laws, however,
clash when it comes to
immigration.
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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agreed to co-sponsor the
federal Equality Act, which
would give that community
civil rights protections.
Oregon wasn’t always
a welcoming place for gay
rights. 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.
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Capital Bureau
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— 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
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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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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
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