Oregon Constitution|ARTICLE IV-LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

Section 1. Legislative power; initiative and referendum.

Section 1. Legislative authority vested in assembly; initiative and referendum; style of bills.

Section 1a. Initiative and referendum on parts of laws and on local, special and municipal laws.

Section 1b. Payment for signatures.

Section 1d. Effective date of amendment to section 1, Article IV, by S.J.R. 3, 1999.

Section 2. Number of Senators and Representatives.

Section 3. How Senators and Representatives chosen; filling vacancies; qualifications.

Section 3a. Applicability of qualifications for appointment to legislative vacancy.

Section 4. Term of office of legislators; classification of Senators.

Section 5. Census.

Section 6. Apportionment of Senators and Representatives.

Section 7. Senatorial districts; senatorial and representative subdistricts.

Section 8. Qualification of Senators and Representatives; effect of felony conviction.

Section 8a. Applicability of qualification for legislative office.

Section 9. Legislators free from arrest and not subject to civil process in certain cases; words uttered in debate.

Section 10. Regular sessions of the Legislative Assembly.

Section 10a. Emergency sessions of the Legislative Assembly.

Section 11. Legislative officers; rules of proceedings; adjournments.

Section 12. Quorum; failure to effect organization.

Section 13. Journal; when yeas and nays to be entered.

Section 14. Deliberations to be open; rules to implement requirement.

Section 15. Punishment and expulsion of members.

Section 16. Punishment of nonmembers.

Section 17. General powers of Legislative Assembly.

Section 18. Where bills to originate.

Section 19. Reading of bills; vote on final passage.

Section 20. Subject and title of Act.

Section 21. Acts to be plainly worded.

Section 22. Mode of revision and amendment.

Section 23. Certain local and special laws prohibited.

Section 24. Suit against state.

Section 25. Majority necessary to pass bills and resolutions; special requirements for bills raising revenue; signatures of presiding officers required.

Section 26. Protest by member.

Section 27. All statutes public laws; exceptions.

Section 28. When Act takes effect.

Section 29. Compensation of members.

Section 30. Members not eligible to other offices.

Section 31. Oath of members.

Section 32. Income tax defined by federal law; review of tax laws required.

Section 33. Reduction of criminal sentences approved by initiative or referendum process.

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