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The list of Oregon ballot measures lists all statewide ballot measures to the present. In Oregon , the initiative and referendum process dates back to 1902, when the efforts of the Direct Legislation League prompted amending the Oregon Constitution for the first time since 1859.
The Office of the Legislative Counsel prepares and publishes the softcover multi-volume Oregon Revised Statutes every two years, after each biennial legislative session. The Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Revised Statutes by recodifying the previous code, which was called the Oregon Compiled Laws Annotated (1940). See 1953 Or. Laws c. 3 ...
The Portland, Oregon, voter has in this year of our Lord 1912, about 100 candidates for office on his ticket; and 39 long initiative and referendum proposed state laws, and 22 proposed city laws—and altogether proposing an indebtedness on the taxpayers of forty to fifty millions of dollars.
Lawmakers sent three measures to voters to decide and more than 117,000 residents signed enough petitions for two other issues to be voted on.
Oregon Ballot Measure 117, the Ranked-Choice Voting for Federal and State Elections Measure, was a proposed Oregon state initiative that was decided by voters as part of the 2024 Oregon elections on November 5, 2024.
The measure made Oregon the first state in the United States to conduct its elections exclusively by mail. The measure passed on November 3, 1998, by a margin of 69.4% to 30.6%. [ 1 ] Political scientists say Oregon's vote by mail system contributes to its highest-in-the-nation rate of voter turnout, at 61.5% of eligible voters.
12th Oregon Legislative Assembly [Wikidata] September 11, 1882 : 13th Oregon Legislative Assembly [Wikidata] 1885 June 1884 [4] 14th Oregon Legislative Assembly [Wikidata] January 10, 1887 : 15th Oregon Legislative Assembly [Wikidata] January 14, 1889 : June 1888 [4] 16th Oregon Legislative Assembly [Wikidata] January 9, 1891
The Oregon Administrative Rules is organized by chapters, with each chapter representing a government agency (Chapter 110 for example is the Capitol Planning Commission). The Office of the Legislative Counsel reviews administrative rules with regard to constitutionality and scope and intent of enabling legislation.