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There is an impressive amount of Oregon legislative material online. If you know how to find it. Here is a step by step guide to figuring out what the legislature was thinking. (Upfront attribution: Everything I know I learned from now Appellate Judge Becky Duncan. Here are the materials from when she spoke at MPD: [[Leg_Hist_Mpd_Presentation1.pdf|Duncan _ Legislative Hx]].)

# Get the '''Law Number'''. It will be at the end of the statute indicating the year, chapter and section of creation or amendment. It will look something like 2007, c 123, S 10. Once you get the cite, you can [http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills_laws/ find the laws here].
# Get the '''Bill Number'''. It will be at the top of the law and will look like: SB 1282 or HB 999.
# Get the '''Staff Summary''' of the Bill. [http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/sms/SMS07Frameset.html Online after 1997].
# Get the '''Legislative Tracing''' for a summary of the bill's path to becoming a law. Think [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ ''I'm Just a Bill'']. Available [http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/tracings/Tracings_intropage.html Online after 1989].
# Get the full '''Chronological History''' [http://www.leg.state.or.us/searchmeas.html here].
# Using the information from the bill's path through the legislature, you can get [http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/legislativeminutes/legminutes.html committee minutes ]and even some [http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/ committee audio recordings ](look under "Audio Archives").
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−	There is an impressive amount of Oregon legislative material online. If you know how to find it. Here is a step by step guide to figuring out what the legislature was thinking. (Upfront attribution: Everything I know I learned from now Appellate Judge Becky Duncan. Here are the materials from when she spoke at MPD: [[~~Leg_Hist_Mpd_Presentation1~~.pdf\|Duncan _ Legislative Hx]].)	+	There is an impressive amount of Oregon legislative material online. If you know how to find it. Here is a step by step guide to figuring out what the legislature was thinking. (Upfront attribution: Everything I know I learned from now Appellate Judge Becky Duncan. Here are the materials from when she spoke at MPD: [[http://libraryofdefense.org/sites/default/files/leg-hist-mpd-presentation1.pdf Duncan - Legislative Hx]].)

	# Get the '''Law Number'''. It will be at the end of the statute indicating the year, chapter and section of creation or amendment. It will look something like 2007, c 123, S 10. Once you get the cite, you can [http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills_laws/ find the laws here].		# Get the '''Law Number'''. It will be at the end of the statute indicating the year, chapter and section of creation or amendment. It will look something like 2007, c 123, S 10. Once you get the cite, you can [http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills_laws/ find the laws here].

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