Reconstructed decisions
Follow a decision
A small number of cases, each built from the official record: who referred the bill and where, which amendment carried the settlement, who voted how, what the fiscal offices estimated, and what happened afterward. Each page says what it has not yet found.
Administrative decision · March 27, 2000
The PERS decision to credit 20%
The recorded motions, reserve choices, public objections, and later benefit dispute, with selected scans from the meeting packet.
HB 2017 (2017) · 2017 regular session
The 2017 transportation package
How did a transportation funding package get its revenue design, its project commitments, and the votes to pass, and what happened to it afterward?
Procedural record reconstructed from official files · 2 roll calls · text comparison · 8 open evidence needs
2013 special session · 2013 special session
The 2013 special-session package
How did a three-day special session join pension cuts, tax changes, new spending, and seed preemption into one bargain, and how did each part fare afterward?
Procedural record reconstructed from official files · 10 roll calls · text comparison · 6 open evidence needs
SB 881 and SB 882 (2021) · 2021 special session
The 2021 redistricting maps
Who drew Oregon's 2021 legislative and congressional districts, on what timetable, with which votes, and what did the maps change?
Procedural record reconstructed from official files · 5 roll calls · text comparison · 10 open evidence needs
Senate walkouts · 2019 regular session, 2020 regular session, 2023 regular session
Quorum as a veto, 2019–2023
How did coordinated absence stop the Senate from acting, what did each side do, and how did voters and the courts respond?
Procedural record reconstructed from official files · 18 roll calls · 8 open evidence needs
SB 100 (1973) · 1973 regular session
Senate Bill 100 and the 1973 land-use system
How did a statewide land-use system get through the 1973 session, what alternatives were dropped, and how was it implemented and contested?
Account assembled from the session edition and archival files · 6 open evidence needs
Later cases will add an implementation success, an implementation failure or reversal, and a failed proposal with a well-documented alternative. The research protocol behind each case is described in the research section.