Following a walkout by Republican lawmakers in the Oregon Senate, they are not present to allow a quorum, preventing action on bills on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care. The boycott is based on a law from 1979 that requires summaries of bills to be readable by those with an eighth or ninth-grade education - measured by a score of at least 60 on the Flesch readability test. If Republican senators deny a quorum for the rest of the legislative session, they could theoretically kill the bills.

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