Oregon legislature passes bill proposing health care as a human right, sending issue to the ballot
The Oregon House of Representatives passed the resolution on Tuesday, ensuring that it will appear on the ballot in 2022.
Posted: May 19, 2021 2:37 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
SALEM, Ore. The Oregon House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday proposing that health care is a human right, sending the matter on to voters for final ratification.
Originally dubbed the HOPE Amendment, Senate Joint Resolution 12 proposes to amend the Oregon constitution by declaring that every resident of the state has a right to affordable health care. Proposals to amend the Oregon constitution have to be ratified by voters in order to take effect, so the matter will appear on ballots in the 2022 general election.
May 19 2021
Legislature clears ballot measure championed by the late Mitch Greenlick for November 2022 on a party-line House vote.
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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
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