2007
Legislative Session
- Cigar
Association of America
- Added an
exemption for cigar bars in the expansion of Oregon's Indoor Clean
Air Act
- Oregon
Head Start Association
- Head Start
in Oregon was expanded to 75% of all eligible children, allowing
more kids to come to kindergarten ready to learn
- Annheuser-Busch
- Stopped
legislators from numerous attempts to increase beer taxes on Oregon's
unique brewing industry
- National
Federation of Indepedent Business
- Initiated
legislation and bipartisan support to create an independent oversight
on companies that receive public contracts based on workers with
disabilities.
- Reynolds
American
- Prevented
Legislative attempts to increase taxes on working Oregonians through
a cigarette tax without approval from Oregon voters
- Industrial
Customers of Northwest Utilities
- Forced Legislators
to hold multiple public hearings and work sessions to amend a
bill that would have raised rates for customers of Oregon utilities.
The final version of the Oregon Renewable Energy Act was significantly
modified to allow local utilities the ability to invest in current
renewable energy methods.
2006
General Election
- Allstate
Insurance
- Successfully
worked to defeat Measure 42, a ballot initiative that would have
raised insurance rates by preventing insurance companies the ability
to use credit scoring in determining rates and premiums
2004
General Election
- SAIF
Corporation/National Federation of Independent Business
- Protected
small business by defeating Ballot Measure 38, which would have
abolished SAIF corporation and transferred many employers with
insurance plans to other workers' compensation providers.
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