Em Levy
State House, District 53 · Democratic · Oregon
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Where they stand
Cost of living: Levy supports practical government solutions to lower unnecessary costs and help working families build a future.
Utility costs: Levy supports stronger utility-rate protections, including greater review of rate impacts and safeguards against unnecessary winter rate increases.
Consumer protection: Levy supports banning hidden online fees so consumers know the full cost of purchases before checkout.
Where Em stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Infrastructure and Rural Resources · Likely supports: Oregon should increase state investment in public transit and active transportation infrastructure.
Infrastructure and Rural Resources · Likely supports: Oregon should favor locally led and flexible approaches over stronger statewide mandates in agricultural and water-resource management.
Rights and Identity · Supports: Oregon should protect access to abortion and reproductive health care under state law.
Rights and Identity · Likely supports: Oregon should protect and expand personal data privacy rights, including limits on data-based pricing and corporate use of personal information.
Housing and Cost of Living · Supports: Oregon should increase state funding for homelessness services and shelter capacity.
Housing and Cost of Living · Supports: Oregon should increase state investment in building and preserving affordable housing.
Housing and Cost of Living · Supports: Oregon should expand state programs that help first-time homebuyers afford homeownership.
Housing and Cost of Living · Likely supports: Oregon should reduce state regulations and permitting barriers to make housing construction faster and easier.
Housing and Cost of Living · Supports: Oregon should limit large-scale corporate and speculative ownership of homes to prioritize housing for residents.
Environment and Energy · Supports: Oregon should increase state investment in wildfire prevention and community resilience.
Environment and Energy · Likely supports: Oregon should maintain and strengthen state climate and emissions-reduction policies.
Environment and Energy · Supports: Oregon should strengthen state environmental health protections against toxic chemicals and pollution.
Environment and Energy · Likely supports: Oregon should strengthen state regulation of large data centers, including limits or moratoria when needed to protect land, water, energy reliability, and nearby communities.
Environment and Energy · Supports: Oregon should make it easier to build clean energy projects through state permitting reforms.
Environment and Energy · Supports: Oregon should strengthen state environmental rules for logging on private forestland.
Health and Human Services · Supports: Oregon should expand state behavioral health and addiction treatment capacity.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Oregon should increase state support for aging residents and elder services.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Oregon should set state limits on prescription drug prices.
Public Safety and Justice · Likely supports: Oregon should increase state support for disaster preparedness and community resilience.
Economy and Taxes · Likely supports: Oregon should reduce state regulations on businesses.
Economy and Taxes · Likely supports: Oregon should direct more state procurement and technical assistance toward small businesses and local producers.
Economy and Taxes · Likely supports: Oregon should expand state support for workforce development, apprenticeships, and career and technical education.
Economy and Taxes · Likely supports: Oregon should strengthen state paid family and medical leave protections for workers.
Economy and Taxes · Supports: Oregon should ban hidden fees in advertised prices.
Economy and Taxes · Supports: Oregon should strengthen state labor standards for workers.
Education and Youth · Supports: Oregon should increase state funding for K-12 public schools.
In the news
Vote Emerson Levy for House District 53 ▶ with video (bendsource.com, Sep 20, 2026)
Breese-Iverson, Levy criticize FEMA for denial on wildfire funding (centraloregondaily.com, Jul 30, 2026)
Oregon approves Rep. Levy’s battery recycling bill aimed at preventing fires (bendbulletin.com, Mar 6, 2026)