HB5201 creates new or increases fees adopted by the State Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Health Authority.
The Oregon State House of Representatives passed HB5201 on March 4, 2022 by a vote of 34 to 23. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this negatively affects farmers. This is another way the government interferes in business and the free market. The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” and government interference in entrepreneurship and private business is in violation of that belief.