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Here's How Oregon State Lawmakers Want To Handle COVID-19

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Here's How Oregon State Lawmakers Want To Handle COVID-19 In Special Session .

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"Here’s a rundown of proposals lawmakers have recommended:

  • Halting all residential and commercial evictions. This proposal builds off a March 22 executive order banning residential evictions issued by Gov. Kate Brown. It would require tenants be given payment plans and prohibit landlords from charging late fees. Recipients of the benefit would need to show they’d lost income due to the pandemic. The halt would likely last for either 90 days or as long as Brown’s existing emergency declaration. Lawmakers also want to prohibit foreclosures during this period.
  • Increasing rental and mortgage assistance through existing state programs.
  • Resurrecting House Bill 4001, which failed to pass when the Legislature imploded earlier this year. The bill would make it easier to site homeless shelters and allow parking lots to be used as transitional housing facilities where people could sleep in their vehicles, among other things.
  • Lowering barriers to existing financial supports for people in need, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and allocating money to the state’s food banks.
  • Allowing parents to use state-mandated sick leave because their children are at home due to school closures.
  • Taking steps to ensure patients are not hit with “out-of-network” medical charges regardless of where they go to seek care and increasing physician assistants’ authority to practice medicine.
  • Ensuring hospitals are not hit with additional “bed taxes” if they must expand capacity due to the outbreak.
  • Providing grants and loans to small businesses impacted by COVID-19.
  • Granting Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters additional power to alter mandatory timelines in criminal and civil cases.
  • While these proposals saw bipartisan support in the joint legislative committee, at least one topic is likely to create tension during a special session.
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Interesting, no?
 
I guess I'm here a bit late but I think it's great. Two points for Oregon from me.
 
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