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1913 REGULAR SESSION

January 13 to March 5, 1913 · 27th Legislative Assembly · about 1 minutes to read

Some records are in hand, but the minimum evidence for a source-bound account has not been assembled.

Principal decisions

  1. 1. Workmen's Compensation ActCreated a no-fault industrial-injury system and administrative commission, shifting workplace-injury governance from ordinary tort litigation toward social insurance.
  2. 2. Creation of the State Highway CommissionThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  3. 3. Renaming and reorganization of the Oregon State LibraryThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  4. 4. Election and presidential-primary legislationThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
Assembly
27th Legislative Assembly

The record is available; this account is still being prepared.

Some records are in hand, but the minimum evidence for a source-bound account has not been assembled.

Review the complete session-law and subject indexes, not only the selected chapter or a codification table. Reconstruct every contender and the failed/vetoed/referral universe from both chamber journals and original bill files. Research implementation, appropriations, enforcement, litigation, repeal/supersession, and affected communities for the selected outcome and strongest rival to equal depth. Acquire the controlling ballot, federal, judicial, executive, or local records needed to apportion causation rather than attributing downstream change to the session alone.

Sources and evidence

Claim-level citations in the research ledger

  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, chapter 112; approved on referendum November 4, 1913original
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, regular session volume/indexoriginal
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, chapter 112; approved on referendum November 4, 1913original
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, regular session volume/indexoriginal
  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial secondary · PDF p. 215; printed p. 211original
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, chapter 112; approved on referendum November 4, 1913original
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, regular session volume/indexoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, regular session volume/indexoriginal
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1913, chapter 112; approved on referendum November 4, 1913original
Featured documents linked to this session (10)
  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial session chronology · Chronological List of Oregon's Legislatures · Preservedoriginal
  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial session chronology · Chronological List of Oregon's Legislatures · Preservedoriginal
  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial session chronology · Chronological List of Oregon's Legislatures · Preservedoriginal
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial ballot inventory · Initiative, Referendum and Recall Itemized Listings · Preservedoriginal
  • Legislative ResearchSession research source · Oregon State Archives · Inaccessibleoriginal
  • Legislative ResearchSession research source · Oregon State Archives · Inaccessibleoriginal
  • Oregon History: 1902 to 1950Governance source link · Oregon Secretary of State · Linkedoriginal
  • Oregon Governors' Records GuidesSession research source · Oregon State Archives · Inaccessibleoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogSession research source · UC Berkeley Law Library · Linkedoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogSession research source · UC Berkeley Law Library · Linkedoriginal

About this account

Sources being assembled. Some records are in hand, but the minimum evidence for a source-bound account has not been assembled.

Edition dated August 31, 2026. Cite as: Oregon Governance Atlas, “1913 REGULAR SESSION,” edition September 2026 (historical cutoff 2026-08-31), https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1913-state-regular-01.

BibTeX
@misc{atlas-or-leg-1913-state-regular-01,
  title = {1913 REGULAR SESSION},
  howpublished = {Oregon Governance Atlas, edition September 2026},
  note = {Historical cutoff 2026-08-31},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1913-state-regular-01}
}
Research tasks for this session

Record classes not yet acquired: A complete review of the session's major decisions; Agency implementation, rules, and audits; Budget, revenue, and staffing records; Committee and floor votes; Committee records, testimony, and exhibits; Court decisions and constitutional interpretation; Enrolled laws, vetoes, and effective dates; House and Senate journals; Implementation and later consequences; Introduced measures and amendments; Membership, officers, and political control; The session call and governor's messages.

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