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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2935
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Oregon Criminal Justice Commission)
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 tells the CJC to study pretrial release. The Act tells the CJC to provide the
results of the study to the legislature by May 1, 2027. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study pretrial release and include certain
data in the study. Requires the commission to provide the results of the study to the interim com-
mittees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than May 1, 2027.
Sunsets January 2, 2028.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to pretrial release.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall study pretrial release
practices and outcomes in Oregon.
(2) When performing the study described in subsection (1) of this section, the commission
shall examine the following:
(a) Aggregate data related to the pretrial phase of criminal proceedings;
(b) Data regarding failures to appear for court hearings;
(c) Demographic data of the pretrial release populations; and
(d) Other data the commission deems relevant to pretrial proceedings, processes, prac-
tices and outcomes.
(3) The commission shall submit a report detailing the results of the study to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary in the manner provided un-
der ORS 192.245 no later than May 1, 2027. The report shall contain data aggregated at both
the statewide and countywide level for each subject described in subsection (2) of this sec-
tion.
(4) The Judicial Department shall assist the commission in the performance of the study
and, to the extent permitted by laws related to confidentiality, shall provide to the commis-
sion any information the commission considers necessary to perform the study.
(5) Data reported pursuant to this section may only be used for statistical purposes and
not for any other purpose, and the data reports may not contain information that reveals
the identity of any individual. Data collected by government agencies or held by the com-
mission pursuant to this section that may reveal the identity of any individual is exempt
from public disclosure in any manner.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028.
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.
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