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The link works once and expires after 15 minutes. After that, you stay signed in on that device and browser for about six months.

Switching to another computer, your phone or tablet, or a different browser? Just request a new sign-in link there. As long as you use the same email address, OLBB recognizes you and connects you to your existing account, with your watchlist and settings intact.

Give it a minute, then check your spam or junk folder (and the “Promotions” or “Updates” tabs in Gmail). The email comes from signin@olbb.org. Adding that address to your contacts helps.

Work email systems sometimes hold or scan links before delivering them. If yours does, request a fresh link. A link that was already opened by a scanner, or is more than 15 minutes old, will not work.

Go to My Profile and choose Change next to your sign-in address. We send a confirmation link to the new address. Nothing changes until you click it from there, and your current address keeps working in the meantime. Your watchlist and plan move with you.

Email support@olbb.org from the address on the account. Deleting your account deletes your watchlist with it. See the Privacy Policy for what we keep and why.

You can do it three ways:

• While browsing: track a bill from Find by Policy Area, Find by Misc. Filters, or its Bill Overview.
• By number: type a bill number such as HB 2005 into the box at the top of your Watchlist.
• A whole list at once: paste a list such as HB 2005, SB 100, HJR 12 into the same box. Commas, semicolons, tabs or one per line all work. Include the prefix (HB, SB, HJR…) on each one. We tell you which bills were added and which could not be found.

Yes, although E-Subscribe has no export. The workaround is to screenshot your subscription page, ask a free AI chat tool to read the bill numbers from it, and paste the list into your watchlist. The E-Subscribe import video walks through it step by step (about 2 minutes).

Each plan covers a number of bills in your briefings. Current limits are on the pricing section of the homepage. You can keep adding past your limit and nothing is deleted. Your briefings will cover the bills you added first, up to the limit, and the watchlist shows a notice when you are over.

The Legislature sets deadlines by which bills must move out of committee. When a bill misses one without being exempt, OLBB marks it presumed dead. That is our reading of the published deadlines, not an official status, and bills occasionally revive. Find by Misc. Filters has a Dead in Committee list, where you can clear those bills out of your watchlist in one step.

• Bill Activity: a short list of what moved on your bills and what is coming up. Daily or weekly.
• Legislative Process: your bills grouped by where each one sits in its lifecycle, from introduction through the Governor. Daily or weekly.
• Committee Highlights: organized by committee, with hearings, work sessions, votes, adopted amendments and short summaries of what was said. Daily.

See real examples on the Samples page. Your plan decides how many you can receive, and you choose which ones on My Profile.

In the evening on session days, after the day’s floor sessions and committee meetings have been posted and processed. Late-running committee days can push that later. Weekly briefings cover Friday to Friday and arrive Friday evening.

Briefings run while the Legislature is in session, plus the bill-signing period after it adjourns. Between sessions there is nothing to report, so they pause until the next session starts.

First, check your spam folder and that the briefing is switched on in My Profile. Also check that the session is actually running (see above). Briefings come from briefing@olbb.org. Adding the sender to your contacts keeps them out of spam.

If an email bounces, or someone marks a briefing as spam, the mail system stops sending to that address to protect delivery for everyone else. If you think that has happened to you, email support@olbb.org and we will switch it back on.

Go to My Profile to switch individual briefings on or off, or between daily and weekly. The unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email turns off that one briefing. Your email program’s built-in “unsubscribe” button turns off all of them.

Turning briefings off does not cancel a paid plan. That is a separate step (see Refunds & cancellation).

Yes, in two different ways:

• Listen to the e-mail briefing as an .MP3 (Premium): the briefing you already get, read aloud. Switch it on for each briefing in My Profile, and the email carries a link to play it.
• Podcast-Style Audio Only Briefing (every paid plan): a separate conversation about your bills. See the next question.

Both play on your audio briefings page. Recordings are deleted after about 30 days, so download any you want to keep.

Three hosts talk through what moved on the bills on your watchlist: a citizen asking what it means, a policy analyst with the context, and an attorney explaining what the bill text does. It is audio only, with no written version. Hear a sample.

Every paid plan includes some each month, and the higher plans include more; the pricing section shows how many. Turn it on in My Profile, and it goes out with your next nightly briefing. If your plan has a monthly number, the switch turns itself off after each one, so switch it back on whenever you want the next. My Profile shows how many you have left.

Unused ones are never lost during the session: each month of the session adds your plan's allowance to what you already have banked, so you can save them up for a busy week. Your profile shows how many you have. The bank starts fresh with the next session, when a new subscription begins.

• Policy Area: every bill in the session, grouped by subject.
• Misc. Filters: bills by sponsor, by committee, by amount of public testimony, open-government impact, signed by the Governor, or presumed dead.
• Bill Overviews: one bill in depth, with its history, sponsors, documents, and a step-by-step process chart. Each step links to the official recording of the moment it happened.
• Floor Briefings: a day-by-day walk through each chamber’s floor session, with summaries and video cued to each bill.
• Com. Player: a committee meeting’s recording with its transcript following along, beside a summary of each bill and who testified.

Floor Briefings and Com. Player are part of every paid plan while a session is running. Once a session adjourns, they open to everyone.

Use the session picker in the top bar. It changes which session every browsing page shows. Your watchlist follows it too, showing the bills you track in that session.

Automatically. Each bill’s introduced text is read and matched against a standard list of policy areas, and re-checked when the bill is amended. A bill can sit in more than one area. When none of the standard areas fits a bill, we add a new topic for it rather than force it into the wrong one.

The sorting is usually right, but occasionally a bill lands somewhere unexpected, so if a bill matters to you, search for it by number as well.

The pricing section on the homepage always shows the current plans, prices, and what each one includes. New accounts in a regular session start with a free trial.

No. Paid plans cover one session and stop billing by themselves when it ends. You are never left on an open-ended subscription through the interim. Details are in the Terms and Refunds & cancellation.

Cancelling stops future charges. Your briefings continue until the end of the period you have paid for. Payments are not refunded except for a billing error on our side. The full policy is on the Refunds & cancellation page.

Everything comes from the Oregon Legislature’s own public data and recordings: bill records, votes, documents, agendas, and floor and committee video. OLBB is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Oregon Legislature or the State of Oregon.

During the session, bill status is refreshed throughout the business day and in full every evening. Summaries of committee meetings and floor sessions take longer to appear, because we wait for each recording to be posted and then process it.

Hearing and floor summaries, and policy-area sorting, are machine-generated from the public record and recordings. They are built to save you time, but they can miss things or get a speaker wrong. Votes and bill history come directly from the Legislature’s official data, not from the summaries.

For anything that matters (testimony, a vote, the exact wording of an amendment), follow the link to the official source. OLBB is not legal advice.

Most of what you see on OLBB comes straight from the Oregon Legislature’s own published data. Occasionally that source data has an error in it. We can’t invent or “fix” the official record, so we faithfully show what the Legislature publishes. In most cases the Legislature proofs and corrects these within a few days, and OLBB picks up the correction automatically.

If something still looks wrong, you’re welcome to tell us. Email support@olbb.org with the bill number and the page. If the error is on our end, we’ll do our best to fix it.