State v. McClure

The legislative history of a statute can be used to “assist a court in its construction of a statute” under ORS 174.020(l)(b). That history, however, cannot be used to change *210the plain meaning of a statute. See State v. Gaines, 346 Or 160, 173, 206 P3d 1042 (2009) (“When the text of a statute is truly capable of having only one meaning, no weight can be given to legislative history that suggests — or even confirms — that legislators intended something different.”); see also Suchi v. SAIF, 238 Or App 48, 55, 241 P3d 1174 (2010), rev den, 350 Or 231 (2011) (“Even assuming that the legislative…