" According to advocates and government representatives who developed the bill, HB 3155 is meant to ensure that cities and counties comply with a series of recent federal court rulings that governments cannot criminalize camping or issue fines if people have no other place to go.
“If a city wants to arrest you for being somewhere, they have to provide somewhere else reasonable for you to be,”
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/15/oregon-house-bill-homeless-camping/?outputType=amp
"The House passed the bill on a near party-line vote, with two Democrats voting against, and two Republicans voting in favor."
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