SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Legislature has finished its work for the year.
The House and Senate simultaneously adjourned the 2011 legislative session just before 3 p.m. Thursday. They capped a five-month marathon marked by tough budget choices and substantial overhauls of education and health care.
The adjournment came moments after lawmakers approved the final bills, including remaining pieces of the budget and a congressional redistricting plan.
The 150-day session is the shortest since 1969.
Lawmakers voted to crack down on child prostitution. They updated the bottle deposit system.
But not everyone’s goals made it through. Environmentalists lost out on their efforts to ban bisphenol-A from baby bottles and to prohibit plastic grocery bags. Immigrant-rights activists couldn’t get a House vote on allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
