The Oregon state Senate approved a series of bills today that authorize approximately $1 billion in bonding authority for projects statewide, with the University of Oregon receiving about $24 million. The Senate approved two items with a price tag of more than $8 million for the UO: $8.5 for the Erb Memorial Union renovation project and another $8.4 million for housing expansion. The Student Recreation Center received a $5 million bond approval with Straub and Earl halls sharing $110,000 bond approval and the Science Commons and research library a further $800,000.

All told, bonds approvals for OUS projects took the lion’s share of the measures, totaling nearly $240 million. The Oregonian has the full list of bond authority approvals from Senate bills 5506, 5507 and 5533.