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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2747
Ordered by the House March 28
Including House Amendments dated March 28
Sponsored by Representatives HUDSON, LEVY B; Representative YUNKER (Presession filed.)
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act would tell the DOC to provide some adults in custody access to some
online education. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
[Digest: The Act would tell the DOC to provide all adults in custody access to some online edu-
cation. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).]
Requires the Department of Corrections to provide adults in custody at [all] certain department
institutions access to specific online educational programs.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to adults in custody; creating new provisions; amending ORS 421.074; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 421.074 is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 421.
SECTION 2. ORS 421.074 is amended to read:
421.074. (1) No later than September 1, [2023] 2026, the Department of Corrections shall ensure
that adults in custody in the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, [and] the Snake River Correctional
Institution, the Oregon State Correctional Institution, the Eastern Oregon Correctional In-
stitution and the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution have online access to:
(a) The adult basic skills development program described in ORS 421.084;
(b) The professional and technical program described in ORS 421.081; and
(c) Education programs that provide college credit, a college degree, a college certification, an
industry-recognized certification or license or an apprenticeship.
(2) Nothing in this section establishes a legally enforceable right to online access to the pro-
grams described in this section for adults in custody.
(3) The department shall adopt any rules necessary for establishing program eligibility and
participation criteria for online access for adults in custody.
SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Department of Corrections, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $4,955,957, to ensure adults in custody at the Oregon State
Correctional Institution, the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution and the Deer Ridge
Correctional Institution have online access to the programs described in ORS 421.074.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
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 1781 A-Eng. HB 2747
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on its passage.
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