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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 246
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary)
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 State Court Administrator to look at juries and make a report. (Flesch
Readability Score: 73.1).
Requires the State Court Administrator to study juries and submit findings to the interim com-
mittees 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 juries.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The State Court Administrator shall study juries. The State Court Admin-
istrator shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include rec-
ommendations for legislation, 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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.
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