Oregon Republicans blocking bills about abortion, gun control and gender-affirming healthcare in the Statehouse say they are simply following a decades-old law requiring that bill summaries be easy to read.
The 1979 state law requires a score of at least 60 on something called the Flesch readability test. That’s the equivalent of an 8th- or 9th-grade reading level. Dr. Rudolf Flesch, a Vienna-born psychologist, developed the test in the 1940s.
