Negotiations to end the longest walkout in Oregon’s political history have intensified in the last few days, with talks centering around whether Democrats would scrap the controversial reproductive health care bill that has been central to the Republicans’ boycott, multiple sources told The Oregonian on Thursday.

“We are definitely trying to find agreement,” Sen. Daniel Bonham, R-The Dalles, said Thursday.

The outlines of any deal are not yet clear. But several legislative staffers said that Republicans have offered a deal that’s under active consideration by Democrats.

Democratic and Republican senators have been meeting independently over the last few days, while Gov. Tina Kotek met Thursday with Senate President Rob Wagner, a Democrat from Lake Oswego. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, was spotted in conversation with House Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, on Thursday.

The Legislature has been at a stalemate for six weeks now, the longest walkout in the state’s history, after GOP senators launched a quorum-denying boycott over the reproductive and gender-affirming care legislation. Previous negotiations have been fitful and borne little fruit, at least publicly.

But the prolonged deadlock has left both Democrats and Republicans increasingly aware of the policy, financial and reputational detritus if they can’t come to terms by June 25, when the session must end. Bills that are at risk of dying include those to reform the state’s crumbling public defender system, protect against the looming wildfire season and address the drought in Eastern Oregon.