Articles Tagged with Oregon legislature

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The new Oregon Legislature’s website goes live Oct 1, 2013. This is great news for legislative and legal researchers (and government wonks, too).

1) Superseded ORS, 1953 – present: Legislative Counsel been posting their superseded digital ORS files and soon all the superseded ORS images scanned by the Washington County Law Library, 1953-1993, will be added to the Legislature’s database. (Now you can find those superseded statutes from the Bills/Laws pages of the Legislature’s website, but we’re not sure where they’ll reside in the update. Maybe the same place or not. Either way, research is a grand adventure!)

2) Click on the Legislature’s New Website Going Live October 1st link for a list of many more updates.

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The Oregon Legislative Library’s Reference Librarian* answers our ‘floor letter’ question. (The “Note from Mother” question is answered at the end of this blog post. Who said watching the Oregon Legislature wasn’t fun?!)

“A ‘floor letter’ is information put on each member’s desk during a session the day of a measure’s 3rd reading and subsequent floor vote. The floor letter has to be identified as originating ‘from the desk of’ a member.

Essentially, it’s like a last ditch effort to make a point.

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The Legislature’s press release for this event can be found under the date February 11, 2013.

“When: Monday, February 18, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Where: Oregon State Capitol, Hearing Room B

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1) The Oregon Legislature’s website has multiple ways to track and research current and past bills, sessions, reports, and laws. Visit the website and try them out.  We’ve enjoyed playing around with this latest one, OLIS/Liz (but don’t ask us who Liz is!).

Note: You will need other tools if you want to research the Legislative History of a bill or law.

2) The Oregon State Library partners with the Legislature’s Library to make sure legislators, state employees, and Oregonians have professional research assistance for their legislative question. Telephone: 503-986-1668; Hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

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You can find lists of House and Senate committee assignments in Current Press Releases, starting Dec. 21, 2012, although some leadership appointments were announced earlier.

These appointments can change so make sure you also follow the Legislature’s website, which will soon reflect these appointments and other preparations for the new session as Legislators (and espcially their expert design, layout, and content specialists) build the 2013 session webpages.

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The upcoming 2013 Oregon Legislative Session offers some budding legislators and government wonks a few more opportunities to learn about the legislative process while earning some money.

Current Open Recruitments at the Oregon Legislature

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If you have any interest in how Oregon state government works and would be able to work in Salem during the next Legislative session:

“Legislative Administration is recruiting to hire approximately 30 Session Committee Assistants. We will hire 30 to staff session committees for Committee Services, including Legislative Fiscal and  Legislative Revenue for the 2013 Legislative Session.“

Link to the Oregon Legislature’s job site for more information (and other Session jobs).

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If you need to know the legislative history of a Oregon statute, please remember:

1) Prior to 1995, Legislative Minutes and Exhibits were microfilmed. The microfilm isn’t complete, and won’t include many other documents that are required when you need to compile a thorough legislative history, but it is still a very useful research resource.

2) From 1995 – 2007: Legislative tracings and minutes are on the Oregon State Archives website. Legislative bills, session law, and some calendars are on the Legislature’s website.
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