Oregon House Passes Transportation Tax Package - Salem Reporter

Oregon House passes transportation bill; Senate action delayed to Tuesday

The bill is a last-ditch plan to avoid severe layoffs and service cuts at ODOT after the legislature failed to pass a larger funding bill earlier this year.

Oregonians share urgency and ire over latest proposal to raise taxes for transportation funding - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News

Nearly 2,200 Oregonians submitted testimony to Legislature in advance of public hearing on new, multi-billion transportation funding proposal By Mia Maldonado, Oregon Capital Chronicle Julie Murray is one of nearly 500 people who work for the Oregon Department of Transportation who will be laid off if the state Legislature does not provide funding to fill the agency’s $350 million budget gap. The drone pilot and video producer has filmed wildfir…

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Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation funding package clears Oregon House on Monday, moves to Senate • Lincoln Chronicle

A proposal to raise billions for road maintenance and public transit in the coming decade advanced by the barest of margins Monday. The Oregon House passed House Bill 3991 by a vote of 36-12, the minimum number of yes votes required to approve the suite of tax increases the governor has put forward. The post Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation funding package clears Oregon House on Monday, moves to Senate appeared first on Lincoln Chronicle.

Republicans weaken transit funding as transportation bill nears passage in Salem

Oregon lawmakers passed a new version of a transportation funding package out of committee after a four-plus hour long marathon work session and public hearing on Sunday. And even though House Bill 3991 passed with changes that aimed to curry favor with Republicans, none of them voted in support of the bill. Even though Democrats have a supermajority with control of the House, Senate and the Governor’s office; Republicans used their last piece o…