Oregon Constitution

Adopted by Constitutional Convention September 18, 1857

Ratified by vote of the People November 9, 1857

Became effective upon Admission February 14, 1859

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Table of Contents

Sections

Article IV. Legislative Department

Legislative power; initiative and referendum

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

Initiative and referendum on parts of laws and on local, special and municipal laws

Payment for signatures

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

Number of Senators and Representatives

How Senators and Representatives chosen; filling vacancies; qualifications

Applicability of qualifications for appointment to legislative vacancy

Term of office of legislators; classification of Senators

Census

Apportionment of Senators and Representatives

Apportionment of Senators and Representatives

Senatorial districts; senatorial and representative subdistricts

Qualification of Senators and Representatives; effect of felony conviction

Applicability of qualification for legislative office

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

Regular sessions of the Legislative Assembly

Emergency sessions of the Legislative Assembly

Legislative officers; rules of proceedings; adjournments

Quorum; failure to effect organization

Journal; when yeas and nays to be entered

Deliberations to be open; rules to implement requirement

Punishment and expulsion of members

Punishment of nonmembers

General powers of Legislative Assembly

Where bills to originate

Reading of bills; vote on final passage

Subject and title of Act

Acts to be plainly worded

Mode of revision and amendment