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2023 NFIB Oregon Legislative Reports

2023 NFIB Oregon Legislative Reports

January 10, 2023 Last Edit: June 5, 2025

2023 NFIB Oregon Legislative Reports

The 2023 Regular Session of the Oregon State Legislature opened on January 17 and adjourned June 25. NFIB Oregon State Director Anthony Smith filed the following reports on the small-business agenda during the session.

June 25—Legislature Adjourns Disorderly 2023 Session

June 16—“The Deal” Ends Senate Stalemate—Business Resumes

June 2—Session Effectively Over? Government Shutdown Looming?

May 19—Chess Game of Unexcused Absences Being Played in the State Senate

May 6—Scandal, Walk-Outs, Ancient Law Consume State Capitol

April 22—Two More Bad-for-Business Bills Pass the House

April 7—NFIB Helps Defeat Two Anti-Employer Hiring Bills

March 24—Estate Tax Reform Back in Spotlight

March 10—Coming Deadlines Expected to Doom Large Number of the 3,000 Bills Introduced

February 24—NFIB Testifies Against Workers’ Compensation Bill Increasing Penalties

February 10—Pro-Small Business Bills Outnumbering Bad Ones—For the Moment

January 28—State Legislators Go to Work on 2,000 Bills, Another Thousand Possible

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