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OREGON LEGISLATURE | COMMITTEE MEETINGS THIS WEEK
Lawmakers discussing paid family leave,
workforce programs, drug treatment grants
BY HILLARY BORRUD
The Oregonian
Oregon lawmakers have a
packed schedule of meetings
this week to get updates on
how the state is implementing
a long list of laws and spend-
ing priorities.
Starting Wednesday, Ore-
gon’s 90 lawmakers will hold
dozens of meetings on topics
ranging from drug treatment
grants to pleas by parents
of severely developmentally
disabled children to extend
a pandemic program that al-
lowed parents to work as paid
caregivers for their children.
All interim hearings,
which take place between
legislative sessions, will take
place online because hearing
rooms at the Capitol are un-
der renovation, spokespeople
for legislative leaders said.
The Senate will hold a floor
session Friday to vote on ap-
pointments to boards and
commissions.
Lawmakers will kick off
the online meetings with a
sweeping hearing Wednesday
morning on a variety of eco-
nomic topics, from an update
on progress rolling out the
$200 million workforce ini-
tiative lawmakers and Gov.
Kate Brown approved earlier
this year to an update on the
Andrew Selsky/AP file
Members of the Oregon Senate meet Dec. 13 during a special session of the Legislature in Salem. Lawmak-
ers hold legislative committee days starting Wednesday.
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ships coming to Eugene this
summer.
Also on Wednesday, the
Senate Interim Committee on
Labor and Business is sched-
uled to hear updates from top
officials at the Employment
Department, including on the
status of the paid leave pro-
gram that lawmakers approved
three years ago. It is running
eight months behind schedule.
Legislators will also get an
update Wednesday on how
the state is distributing drug
treatment grants, funded with
reallocated marijuana taxes
under the voter approved
Measure 110, which legalized
possession of small amounts
of hard drugs.
Lawmakers will hear about
challenges in Oregon’s early
learning programs, which the
state has approved money to
expand in recent years.
On Thursday, the House
Interim Committee on Hu-
man Services will hear from
parents caring for severely
developmentally disabled
children. Such parents were
able to get paid to do the
work during the pandemic
and have been advocating
for the state to continue the
program, which started amid
a shortage of care workers.
According to The Lund Re-
port, parents of approxi-
mately 300 children around
the state have signed up for
the program, which requires
them to complete the same
training and vetting as any
other worker. Due to the rel-
atively low pay of $16 to $19
per hour, it costs the state $11
million.
The Senate Interim Com-
mittee on Housing and Devel-
opment is set to hear updates
on the state’s housing supply
and “recent investments, suc-
cesses and challenges” in tack-
ling homelessness in Oregon,
although no details were avail-
able Tuesday morning regard-
ing who would provide that
information.
In a joint meeting Thursday,
House and Senate education
committees will hear from
Secretary of State Shemia Fa-
gan and state auditors in her
office about their recently is-
sued report warning Oregon
is at risk of wasting huge new
investments in K-12 schools
because of the state’s weak
tracking of learning outcomes
and lack of accountability for
districts to increase student
success.
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OREGON ELECTIONS
Clackamas County completes
counting blurred primary ballots
BY JAMIE GOLDBERG
The Oregonian
Clackamas County election
officials announced Tuesday
that the county had finished
duplicating virtually all ballots
marred with a printing error
and were moving on to count-
ing ballots from voters in the
military and abroad.
The county appears to have
duplicated more than 22,000
ballots over the holiday week-
end due to an unexpectedly
high number of elections work-
ers and volunteers who showed
up to help tally ballots.
Earlier in the week, elections
officials said they only antic-
ipated that 211 people would
pitch in between Saturday
and Monday to hand-dupli-
cate ballots. Instead, 428 peo-
ple showed up to copy voters’
choices onto new ballots, a pro-
cess necessitated because tens
of thousands of ballots were
printed with blurred bar codes
that couldn’t be read by vote
Read endorses
Kotek for governor
after primary loss
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Gillian Flaccus/AP file
An election worker in Clackamas County uses a purple maker May 25 to
transfer votes from a spoiled ballot to a fresh one so the ballot can be
scanned.
counting machines.
The printing error and a
bungled response by election
officials in the days leading up
to the election led to results in a
handful of key races being de-
layed for well over a week.
Election officials said they
expect all ballots to be pro-
cessed by the end of the week
and will be on schedule to cer-
tify the election by the June 13
statutory deadline.
Along with processing bal-
lots from members of the mili-
tary and those abroad, election
officials are working to process
ballots that need signatures.
State Treasurer Tobias
Read has endorsed Tina
Kotek, who defeated him in
the May 17 Democratic pri-
mary for Oregon governor.
Kotek, the former Ore-
gon House speaker from
Portland, won 56.1% to
Read’s 31.8%. Patrick
Starnes, the 2018 Indepen-
dent Party nominee who
ran as a Democrat, won
2.1%, and 12 other candi-
dates split the rest of the
Democratic votes.
Kotek faces Republi-
can Christine Drazan of
Canby, the former House
GOP leader, who won 23%
in a 19-candidate field,
and unaffiliated candidate
Betsy Johnson, a former
Democratic state senator
from Scappoose who plans
to qualify by petition for
the Nov. 8 general election.
Read had been endorsed
by two former Democratic
governors, Barbara Rob-
erts and John Kitzhaber.
Read will remain state
treasurer, which he was
elected to in 2016 after
five terms in the Oregon
House from Beaverton.
He is in the middle of his
second four-year term as
treasurer.
“Two weeks ago, Demo-
crats made clear that they
want Tina Kotek to be our
nominee. I respect their
decision and have congrat-
ulated the former speaker
on her victory. I’m com-
mitted to working with her
to make Oregon a place
where every child can re-
alize their full potential,”
Read said in a statement
Monday.
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LOCAL BRIEFING
COVID-19 community
levels for Central Oregon
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention mon-
itors community levels of
COVID-19 to help commu-
nities decide what preven-
tion steps to take based on
the latest data. Levels can be
low, medium or high and are
determined by looking at hos-
pital beds being used, hospital
admissions and the total num-
ber of new COVID-19 cases
in an area.
The CDC listed the follow-
ing levels for Central Oregon:
Deschutes County: Me-
dium
Crook County: Medium
Jefferson County: Medium
Precautions the CDC rec-
ommends for communities
with medium levels:
• If you are at high risk for
severe illness, talk to your
health care provider about
whether you need to wear a
mask and take other precau-
tions.
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