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1920 SPECIAL SESSION

January 12 to January 17, 1920 · 30th 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. Oregon ratification of the Nineteenth AmendmentFormally aligned Oregon with the federal constitutional guarantee against sex-based denial of voting rights, although Oregon women already possessed state suffrage and ratification was one state in a federal process.
  2. 2. Additional state-highway bond authorityThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  3. 3. Federal-aid highway matching authorityThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  4. 4. No separate administrative reorganizationThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
Assembly
30th 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 · House Joint Resolution 1, 1920 Special Sessionoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1920, special session volume/indexoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1920, special session volume/indexoriginal
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · House Joint Resolution 1, 1920 Special Sessionoriginal
  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial secondary · PDF p. 235; printed p. 231original
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · House Joint Resolution 1, 1920 Special Sessionoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1920, special session volume/indexoriginal
  • Oregon session laws serial catalogOfficial secondary · Oregon Laws 1920, special session volume/indexoriginal
  • Initiative, Referendum and RecallOfficial secondary · House Joint Resolution 1, 1920 Special Sessionoriginal
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, “1920 SPECIAL SESSION,” edition September 2026 (historical cutoff 2026-08-31), https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1920-state-special-01.

BibTeX
@misc{atlas-or-leg-1920-state-special-01,
  title = {1920 SPECIAL SESSION},
  howpublished = {Oregon Governance Atlas, edition September 2026},
  note = {Historical cutoff 2026-08-31},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1920-state-special-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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