Oregon lawmakers adjourn 2022 legislative session

By SARA CLINE
Associated Press/Report for America

Oregon lawmakers adjourned the 2022 short legislative session  after passing a slew of ambitious legislation, including overtime pay for farmworkers, $600 stimulus payments for low-income workers and a $400 million spending package focused on affordable housing and homelessness. This session, which concluded Friday, was the final one for Senate President Peter Courtney, a Salem Democrat, who is the Oregon’s longest-serving state lawmaker with 38 years. It was also the first where the public was allowed to attend in-person for the first time since March 2020.   Other notable bills that included heat relief for vulnerable Oregonians, protections for election workers and giving nurses access to a program that provides mental health and wellness support.