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Here are some moments from the past couple of weeks and valuable community insights to help you stay informed.
~ Virgle
Oregon Legislature Passes Bill Making August 25th Oregon Adoption Day
Life News
Oregon senators on Tuesday voted to approve a bill that will establish August 25 as “Oregon Adoption Day.” The Oregon Senate approved the bill, HB 2019, in a unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon. Republican Representative Lucetta Elmer, the carrier and presenting sponsor of the bipartisan bill, said the date chosen reflects the day Rep. Elmer herself had been adopted. “The day this bill recognizes is not just a date on a calendar: It’s my day,” Rep. Elmer said on the House Floor in April. “The day that forever changed my story, gave me a future, and placed me in the arms of a mother who chose me as her own, and ultimately led me here today, talking to you.”
Oregon’s electric truck mandate delayed due to market dysfunction
Capital Press
Dysfunction in the market for new trucks has convinced Oregon environmental regulators to delay enforcement of the state’s electric truck sales mandate for two years. Despite “compliance flexibilities” to ease adoption of the “advanced clean truck” regulation, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality said that “new truck market dynamics in Oregon are not functioning properly” — much as critics of the mandate have been forecasting.
“Some manufacturers are limiting new internal combustion engine truck sales as a means to ensure compliance with ACT sales requirements, thereby reducing overall new truck availability to a wide range of users,” the agency said. While critics have long been warning DEQ about the adverse impacts of the mandate, the fulfillment of those predictions has prompted the agency to take action, said Rep. Shelly Boshart-Davis, R-Albany, who’s been advocating for the delay.
“This rule affected everyone, from the one-man shop to the big business like Daimler,” she said, referring to a truck manufacturer whose North American operations are based in Portland, Ore. The fundamental problem is that demand for electric trucks simply isn’t keeping with the rate of sales required of manufacturers, said Boshart Davis, whose family runs a farming and trucking operation. “They’re sitting on all this EV inventory nobody wants,” she said, referring to electric vehicles.
REPRESENTATIVE OSBORNE RELEASES STATEMENT ON REVENUE FORECAST
KQEN
State Representative Virgle Osborne has released a statement on the May Revenue Forecast, which was put out by the State of Oregon Department of Administrative Services on Wednesday. Osborne said, “Democrats are quick to point their fingers to the decision-making of a man over 2,500 miles away but couldn’t be bothered to reflect on their own policies right here in their own state”. Osborne said, “Anti-business regulations and policies paraded as ‘pro-consumer’ have done serious harm to the business community – and in turn, everyday Oregonians”. Osborne said, “Is it really a surprise that Oregon businesses are being recruited to set up shop in other states? Or how the fact that a new report revealed that more Oregonians are having to take on a second job to make ends meet?”.
LISTEN: INSIDE DOUGLAS COUNTY 5.16.25
KQEN
State Representative Virgle Osborne reacts to the State Revenue Forecast, talks about the transportation package, tax proposals, fire fighter funding and other topics
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Yours Truly,
 State Representative, House District 2
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1402
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, H-375, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Rep.VirgleOsborne@oregonlegislature.gov
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