Gov. John Kitzhaber signed more bills remaining from the 2013 legislative session Wednesday, the same day lawmakers were given committee assignments that will help guide their work until the upcoming session.

More than 60 bills were signed into law, including House Bill 3460, which legalizes marijuana dispensaries. The governor has signed more than 780 bills into law from the 2013 session.

Kitzhaber also announced he will continue his roundtable discussions with the goal of striking a “grand bargain,” some combination of raising taxes and cutting the state’s pension system.

The governor travels today and Friday to Hermiston, Pendleton and La Grande to carry on the talks.

Kitzhaber has said he would consider calling a special legislative session this fall if he thought he had the votes to strike a deal.

“The governor seems to want to get a deal and if it’s the right deal on (the Public Employees Retirement System), we would likewise like to get there sooner rather than later,” said Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend.

Regardless, lawmakers will meet in the interim, before the next legislative session in February, to vet concepts and ideas that often guide the crafting of future legislation.

Knopp, who was also a lawmaker in the early part of the decade, noted that in 2002 the interim committee was key in crafting legislation that made drastic changes to PERS in 2003.

The interim gatherings matter, he noted. The next legislative days are scheduled for Sept. 16, 17 and 18.

Many of Central Oregon’s delegation will continue to sit on the committees on which they served during the regular session. For example, Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, will remain on the House Revenue Committee and House Republican Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, will have a hand in budget matters on the Joint Ways and Means Committee.

Interim committee assignments

SENATE

Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend

• Vice Chair of Education and Workforce Development

• Health and Human Services

HOUSE

Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte

• Joint Ways and Means

Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend

• Health Care

• Revenue

Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles

• Vice Chair of Higher Education and Workforce Development

• Education

• Veterans and Emergency Preparedness

• Capital Construction

Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunriver

• Human Services and Housing

• Higher Education and Workforce Development

• Education