Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek listens during a roundtable discussion on domestic semiconductor manufacturing in Oregon at PCC Willow Creek Mechatronics Lab in Hillsboro April 5.

Gov. Tina Kotek said Wednesday she hasn’t ruled out vetoing any of the roughly 300 bills awaiting her signature and will also examine every line item in the several large budget bills on her desk.

In a wide-ranging interview with many reporters, she encouraged state residents to let her office know if there are bills they really want her to sign or to veto, including one to allow drivers to pump their own gas at all the state’s gas stations. “I want to hear from Oregonians,” Kotek said.

She vowed to read every bill and comb through every budget, and she said she might need to take the full 30 days allowed to complete the task. “Literally we are just sitting down to read every bill. I don’t have any yea or nay yet,” she said.

She directed Oregonians to a place on her website where they are invited to “share your opinion.”

Kotek’s predecessor, Kate Brown, did not issue frequent vetoes during her nearly eight years in office. But she did veto entire bills, such as one on psychoactive plant extract kratom and another allowing lane-splitting by motorcycles, as well as line items in budgets, including lawmakers’ decision to pull $200 million from a rainy day fund for schools. In 2017, she famously targeted a southern Oregon Republican who cast a vote she disliked by cancelling two of three pet projects for his district, including for an irrigation canal.

The governor who served prior to Brown, one-time emergency room doctor John Kitzhaber, issued enough vetoes to earn the moniker “Dr. No.” Unlike fellow Democrats Brown and Kotek, Kitzhaber governed primarily when Republicans controlled both chambers of the Legislature.

One bill Kotek absolutely won’t veto, she said, is her priority bill launching an initiative to revamp the way Oregon schools teach children to read. The teacher training and new curriculum materials funded by House Bill 3198 are unlikely to reach classrooms until March, state officials said Tuesday.

Kotek said it is more important to “be deliberate” and make sure standards for improving teaching methods are high and well-monitored than to make change fast. “We are all-in on that, and the bill that was passed, 3198, is a great start,” she said.