May 19 2021
Legislature clears ballot measure championed by the late Mitch Greenlick for November 2022 on a party-line House vote.
Northwest Portland s Mitch Greenlick may achieve in death what he was unable to do during his 17 years in the Oregon House.
A vote in the House cleared the way for Oregon voters to decide in November 2022 whether health care should be considered a right in the Oregon Constitution. The House passed Senate Joint Resolution 12 on a 34-23 vote along party lines on Wednesday, May 19. The resolution does not require the governor s signature.
Greenlick, a Portland Democrat, was in his ninth and final term when he died a year ago at age 85. As leader or co-leader of the House Health Care Committee for more than six cycles, going back to 2007, he sponsored and the House passed similar resolutions four times. All of them died in the Senate, although his final attempt had reached the full Senate before the Legislature abruptly adjourned its 2020 regular se