BEND, OR -- Bend city councilor Anthony Broadman hosted a virtual meeting with State Representative Emerson Levy to give an update on the Legislative session.

Levy is fresh off unanimous House passage of her bill to fund youth and family homelessness prevention, “I think we’re going to have a really good result in the housing production work in bills that are coming up. And stuff around UGB. There’s a lot of good negotiations going on right now; a lot of people with competing interests working at the table together in really collaborative way.”

Levy says her biggest surprise as a freshman lawmaker is the collaborative effort from both sides of the aisle, “On the whole we’ve really got along really well. I feel like really working towards housing and the opioid crisis. And I think those shared concerns have been really good.”

Her ‘Alyssa’s Law’ bill, which would require schools to have mobile panic devices in every classroom has also received broad support, but is stalled in committee. 

Broadman says he’s impressed with the legislature's commitment to address housing, “What I’m excited about is these new expenditures are being directed to the region. It’s not a city problem, it’s not a county problem, alone, but it’s a regional problem.”