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 $240 million. The Senate approved two items with a price tag of more than $80 million: $84.3 million for the Erb Memorial Union renovation project and another $84.75 million for housing expansion. The Student Recreation Center received a $50.25 million bond approval with Straub and Earl halls sharing an $11 million bond approval and the Science Commons and research library a further $8.38 million.

All told, bonds approvals for OUS projects took the lion’s share of the measures, totaling nearly $620 million. The Oregonian has the full list of bond authority approvals from Senate bills 5506, 5507 and 5533.