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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 474
Ordered by the Senate February 25
Including Senate Amendments dated February 25
Sponsored by Senator PROZANSKI; Senator MANNING JR (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 creates a criminal defense legal clinic. The Act provides funding for the clinic.
The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score:
61.7).
Establishes the Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program within the Higher Educa-
tion Coordinating Commission.
Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program is established in the
Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide training and supervision of court-
certified law students to undertake misdemeanor cases.
SECTION 2. (1) The Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program Fund is estab-
lished in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund.
(2) The fund consists of moneys credited to the fund from moneys appropriated or
transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly. Moneys in the fund are continuously
appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be distributed to the law
schools in this state for purposes of the program established under section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, for the biennium beginning July 1,
2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $3,579,824, which shall be deposited to the
Criminal Defense Clinical Legal Education Program Fund established under section 2 of this
2025 Act for purposes of administering the program established under section 1 of this 2025
Act.
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
July 1, 2025.
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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