You can actively or passively follow legislation of interest to you and your business. For an overview of search options, go to the Bills and Laws Page of the 2011 Legislative Session . It provides links to several methods of researching legislation if, for example, you know the bill number.

For impartial analysis of each bill prepared by the legislative staff, click here, and enter the number of the bill in which you’re interested. To subscribe to e-mail notification about matters of interest to you and your business, click here, and select topics of interest.

You also can choose to get information from Sen. Chuck Thomsen and Rep. Mark Johnson.

Click here to search the Oregon Legislative Information System for the history of Senate and House bills from the Oregon  Legislature by bill number or keyword.

Click here to search the Federal Legislative Information System (THOMAS) for the history of Senate and House bills from Congress by bill number or keyword.

Other organizations also track legislation. You may wish to visit their web sites:

•    League of Oregon Cities
•    Oregon Prosperity Project
•    Associated Oregon Industries
•    Oregon Business Association