No Trees Were Harmed In The Drafting Of This Bill

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I can't say for sure whether SB 521 is the longest bill of the session, but at 1,117 pages it must surely come close. Senator Bruce Starr's proposal to re-organize the state's natural resource agencies under one umbrella would have consumed plenty of natural resources of its own back in the day when every bill was printed and distributed around the capitol. Nowadays most lawmakers and lobbyists prefer the electronic version. Starr's bill got a hearing this afternoon, along with a competing measure from Senator Jackie Dingfelder. Dingfelder's bill would merely create a task force to look at natural resource agency consolidation. It's just two pages long.

It should be noted that what makes Starr's bill so long is the need to insert the phrase "Oregon Department of Natural Resources" into existing state laws that currently mention other agencies. That said, I haven't read the bill line-by-line.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3320471128493510714-2547255869681557395?l=www.capitolcurrents.com" alt=""/></div>

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