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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Joint Resolution 27
Sponsored by Senator BONHAM (at the request of Senator Noah Robinson) (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: Resolves to amend the Oregon Constitution to add a right to carry concealed firearms.
Sends the change to voters to approve or reject. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution establishing a right to carry concealed
firearms.
Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular
general election.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
PARAGRAPH 1. Section 27, Article I of the Constitution of the State of Oregon, is amended
toread:
Sec. 27.(1) The people shall have the right to bear arms for the [defence] defense of themselves,
and the State, but the Military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power.
(2) The right described in subsection (1) of this section includes the right to carry a
concealedfirearm.
PARAGRAPH 2.The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be submitted to the
people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election held throughout
thisstate.
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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