HB2104 • 2025

Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.

Crime

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Osborne
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.

Digest: The Act changes manslaughter to include when a person delivers drugs and it results in death.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act changes manslaughter to include when a person delivers drugs and it results in death.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.
Relating to: Relating to manslaughter in the second degree.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act changes manslaughter to include when a person delivers drugs and it results in death. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery results in the death of the other person.
Relating to: Relating to manslaughter in the second degree.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2104
Sponsored by Representative OSBORNE (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 changes manslaughter to include when a person delivers drugs and it results
in death. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Expands the crime of manslaughter in the second degree to include circumstances in which a
person delivers a controlled substance to another person on two or more occasions and the delivery
results in the death of the other person.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to manslaughter in the second degree; amending ORS 163.125.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 163.125 is amended to read:
163.125. (1) Criminal homicide constitutes manslaughter in the second degree when:
(a) It is committed recklessly;
(b) A person intentionally causes or aids another person to commit suicide; [or]
(c) A person, with criminal negligence, causes the death of a child under 14 years of age or a
dependent person, as defined in ORS 163.205, and:
(A) The person has previously engaged in a pattern or practice of assault or torture of the vic-
tim or another child under 14 years of age or a dependent person; or
(B) The person causes the death by neglect or maltreatment, as defined in ORS 163.115[ .]; or
(d) A person knowingly delivers a controlled substance in Schedule I or Schedule II to
another person on two or more occasions, and the delivery results in the death of the other
person from the use of the controlled substance.
(2) Manslaughter in the second degree is a Class B felony.
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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