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An upswing in awareness of the COFA islanders’ plight in the last weeks of the session was not enough to get them insurance coverage immediately, but a bill passed out of committee that directs the Department of Consumer & Business Services to figure out the program details, and Sen. Bates said they’d work to get the program passed next year.

The measure would add $2 to a pack of cigarettes in Oregon, which has the lowest cigarette taxes on the West Coast. It would also tax vaping products.