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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2504
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Joint Interim Committee
on Addiction and Community Safety Response for Representative Jason Kropf)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study rates of drug crime recidivism. (Flesch Readability
Score:74.8).
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the rates of recidivism for persons
convicted of drug enforcement misdemeanors. Directs the commission to submit findings to the in-
terim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15,
2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to controlled substance offenses.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall study the rates of recidivism
for persons convicted of drug enforcement misdemeanors. The commission shall submit a
report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legis-
lation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no
later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3269