2023 Legislative Session

With new members and leadership, Oregon lawmakers are reviving a series of proposals that came up short in previous sessions, including campaign finance limits and self-serve gas, suggesting lawmakers believe they have a better chance of success this time around.

Despite only meeting for three days this week, the legislature still covered a lot of ground on housing, semiconductors, and the trajectory of tax and fiscal politics.

Housing and semiconductors are unequivocally the talk of the town. Still, the legislature cannot sit idly waiting for those issues to get out of the way.

Lawmakers have spent a lot of time talking about semiconductors, but there is another category of chips at play this session—bargaining chips.

If the first two weeks of the session felt like an introductory college course, the third week bumped up to mid- and upper-level courses.

The legislature is gearing up to tackle some of its most daunting challenges, including housing and semiconductors, in only a matter of weeks.