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Votes at a glance: Senate passes measures on medical-debt reporting, foster-family reporting, Walla Walla water pilot
Summary
On April 23 the Senate cleared several bills on final reading, including SB 605 removing medical debt from credit reports, SB 741 requiring foster-family cost and capacity reporting, and SB 761 authorizing a Walla Walla Basin pilot; vote tallies are listed below.
The Oregon Senate advanced several measures on Wednesday. The chamber completed third reading and final passage on a set of bills that members described as addressing consumer-credit fairness, improving child-welfare data and enabling a limited water-leasing pilot in the Walla Walla Basin.
Senate Bill 6 05 A — medical-debt reporting: Sponsor Senator Shemia Campos said the bill does not forgive medical debt but would prevent medical debt from being reported to credit agencies, remove existing medical debt from credit reports and stop reporting for specialized health-care credit cards. Proponents argued medical debt is frequently involuntary, often the result of emergencies, and can unfairly penalize people seeking housing,…
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