article_snippet: When it came up for a vote in the state Senate last week, all Republicans and one Democrat voted against it.
article_snippet: The Democrats hold a 18-12 advantage in the state Senate so the bill easily passed.
article_snippet: State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a Portland Democrat who carried the bill in the state Senate, said there were rumblings the measure was a 'secret plot' to enroll more Democrats.  
article_snippet: But State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a Portland Democrat who carried the bill in the Senate denied that was true.