Five Items Placed on The Special Session Agenda

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(SALEM) - Legislative leaders have agreed to five items to be on the agenda for the special session which begins on Thursday.

The five on the list are:

Using 42.2 million in unanticipated lottery revenue for public schools. If approved, it would be the first time in years the state has approved a mid-biennium bonus instead of a cutback of school funding.

Re-balancing the DHS budget, projected at a shortfall of $140 million, would include an additional one million for the children`s Health Insurance Program which would cover another 9,600 children.

Oregon`s Jessica Law, which would increase mandatory minimum prison sentences and provide lifetime monitoring of sexual predators.

Allowing a three-year extension of bonds for Portland public schools.

And strengthening protections for borrows of payday loans.

Governor Kulongoski said he would sign bills that receive bipartisan support.

The special session begins at 9:00 AM, and will be the 36th in state history, and the first since a record five in 2002.