Statehood · Regular
Sources being assembled1949 REGULAR SESSION
January 10 to April 16, 1949 · 45th 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. Fair Employment Practices ActCreated enforceable state policy and administrative machinery against employment discrimination, beginning Oregon's modern civil-rights agency lineage.
- 2. County/local planning authorityThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
- 3. Veterans' and postwar housing programsThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
- 4. Tax-system revisionThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
- Assembly
- 45th 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.
Obtain and cite the enrolled act/resolution, exact chapter or journal locator, and operative text for the selected outcome. 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.
Earlier and later sessions
Came before
- 1926-11-02 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementBlack exclusion language repealed
- 1912-11-05 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementOregon woman suffrage amendment
- 1857-09-18 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementConstitutional convention completes Oregon constitution
- 1844-06-25 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementProvisional Black exclusion law
Followed
- 1953-04-25 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementPublic accommodations civil-rights lawPolitical membership and rights expanded through amendment, legislation, federal constraint, organization, and courts, while formal repeal or recognition did not by itself produce equal administration or remedy.
- 1957-05-21 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementState fair-housing legislationPolitical membership and rights expanded through amendment, legislation, federal constraint, organization, and courts, while formal repeal or recognition did not by itself produce equal administration or remedy.
- 1982-01-01 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementState v. Robertson speech frameworkPolitical membership and rights expanded through amendment, legislation, federal constraint, organization, and courts, while formal repeal or recognition did not by itself produce equal administration or remedy.
- 2001-05-10 · Civil membership, exclusion, suffrage, and rights enforcementSmothers v. Gresham Transfer remedy doctrinePolitical membership and rights expanded through amendment, legislation, federal constraint, organization, and courts, while formal repeal or recognition did not by itself produce equal administration or remedy.
These edges locate a decision in a researched governance chain. They do not by themselves prove that the source caused the target.
Sources and evidence
Claim-level citations in the research ledger
- Oregon Statewide Black Historic Resources Multiple Property DocumentationPrimary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon History: 1902 to 1950Official secondary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial secondary · PDF p. 327; printed p. 323original
- Oregon History: 1902 to 1950Official secondary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon Statewide Black Historic Resources Multiple Property DocumentationPrimary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon History: 1902 to 1950Official secondary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon Statewide Black Historic Resources Multiple Property DocumentationPrimary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon Statewide Black Historic Resources Multiple Property DocumentationPrimary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
- Oregon History: 1902 to 1950Official secondary · Oregon Laws 1949 civil-rights act; bill and chapter crosswalk pendingoriginal
Featured documents linked to this session (11)
- Oregon Statewide Black Historic Resources Multiple Property DocumentationSession research source · Oregon Parks and Recreation Department / National Park Service · Linkedoriginal
- 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
- 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 History: 1902 to 1950Governance source link · Oregon Secretary of State · Linkedoriginal
- Legislative Committee Records InventorySession research source · Oregon State Archives · Preservedoriginal
- Oregon Governors' Records GuidesSession research source · Oregon State Archives · Inaccessibleoriginal
- 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, “1949 REGULAR SESSION,” edition September 2026 (historical cutoff 2026-08-31), https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1949-state-regular-01.
BibTeX
@misc{atlas-or-leg-1949-state-regular-01,
title = {1949 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-1949-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.