76th Oregon Legislative Assembly

76th Oregon Legislative Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Oregon Legislative Assembly
Jurisdiction	Oregon, United States
Meeting place	Oregon State Capitol
Term	2011–2012
Website	www.leg.state.or.us
Oregon State Senate
Members	30 Senators
Senate President	Peter Courtney
Majority Leader	Diane Rosenbaum
Minority Leader	Ted Ferrioli
Party control	Democratic
Oregon House of Representatives
Members	60 Representatives
Co-Speaker	Bruce Hanna
Co-Speaker	Arnie Roblan
Party leaders	K. Cameron (R) / T. Kotek (D)
Party control	split

The 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly convened beginning on January 11, 2011, for the first of its two regular sessions. All 60 seats of the House of Representatives and 16 of the 30 state senate seats were up for election in 2010. The general election for those seats took place on November 2. The Democrats retained the majority in the senate, but lost six seats in the house, leading to an even split (30-30) between Democrats and Republicans. The governor of Oregon during the session was John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, who was elected to a third term in 2010 following an eight-year absence from public office.

The even split in the House of Representatives was addressed with the selection of two co-speakers, Democrat Arnie Roblan and Republican Bruce Hanna. The two were selected by Governing Magazine among its eight "Public Officials of the Year," and praised for "setting in motion a tenure that has been marked by rare bipartisan cooperation and two of the most productive legislative sessions in Oregon's history."^[1][2]

The 76th was the first session in which the legislature met twice in regular session, following the 2010 passage of Ballot Measure 71, which instituted a second regular session for each two-year legislative term.