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1957 SPECIAL SESSION

October 28 to November 15, 1957 · 49th 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. Emergency tax and surplus disposition packageThe special session centered on tax relief and surplus disposition, but the durable distributional and institutional effects remain to be established from acts, journals, and fiscal records.
  2. 2. Twenty-percent income-tax reduction proposal/packageThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  3. 3. Education and property-tax reliefThe source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
  4. 4. No durable structural change (null hypothesis)The source inventory identifies this as a plausible competing session outcome requiring targeted act, journal, implementation, and downstream review.
Assembly
49th 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.

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Sources and evidence

Claim-level citations in the research ledger

  • Chronological List of Oregon's LegislaturesOfficial secondary · PDF p. 352; printed p. 348original
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesPrimary · Oregon Laws 1957 Special Session; exact chapters require 1957ss index revieworiginal
  • Oregon Governors' Records GuidesOfficial secondary · administration guide(s) for Robert D. Holmes; legislative messages and veto recordsoriginal
  • Oregon Governors' Records GuidesOfficial secondary · administration guide(s) for Robert D. Holmes; legislative messages and veto recordsoriginal
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesPrimary · Oregon Laws 1957 Special Session; exact chapters require 1957ss index revieworiginal
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesPrimary · Oregon Laws 1957 Special Session; exact chapters require 1957ss index revieworiginal
  • Oregon Governors' Records GuidesOfficial secondary · administration guide(s) for Robert D. Holmes; legislative messages and veto recordsoriginal
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesPrimary · Oregon Laws 1957 Special Session; exact chapters require 1957ss index revieworiginal
  • Oregon Governors' Records GuidesOfficial secondary · administration guide(s) for Robert D. Holmes; legislative messages and veto recordsoriginal
Featured documents linked to this session (12)
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesSession research source · Oregon Legislative Counsel · Linkedoriginal
  • Oregon Revised Statutes ArchivesSession research source · Oregon Legislative Counsel · 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: 1951 to PresentGovernance 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 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, “1957 SPECIAL SESSION,” edition September 2026 (historical cutoff 2026-08-31), https://oregon.portlandciviclab.org/sessions/or-leg-1957-state-special-01.

BibTeX
@misc{atlas-or-leg-1957-state-special-01,
  title = {1957 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-1957-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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