Senator introduces bill to require nonlegislative bill requests be routed through lawmakers
Senate Bill 1006 would bar executive and judicial branches from directly requesting legislation without a senator or committee sponsor; sponsor argued the change would return lawmaking to legislators and align Oregon with most states.
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Senate Bill 1006 drew a public hearing in the Senate committee on Holders on March 19, where sponsor Senator **** Thatcher argued the measure is a corrective to a decades-long practice by which nonlegislative entities request and obtain drafts of legislation without a legislator sponsor.
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