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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 402
Sponsored by Senator GIROD (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 as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells DSP to have a certain amount of troopers by 2036. (Flesch Readability
Score:63.4).
Directs the Department of State Police to maintain a staffing level of at least 20 patrol troopers
per 100,000 residents of this state, beginning on January 1, 2036.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to patrol trooper staffing levels for the Department of State Police.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of State Police shall maintain a patrol trooper staffing level
of at least 20 patrol troopers per 100,000 residents of this state, based on population figures
from the most recent federal decennial census.
SECTION 2.(1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2036.
(2) The Department of State Police may take any action before the operative date speci-
fied in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary for the department to exercise, on and
after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions
and powers conferred on the department by section 1 of this 2025 Act.
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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