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HB2142 • 2025

Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has certain prior convictions.

Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has certain prior convictions.

Crime
Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has certain prior convictions.

Digest: The Act requires a prison sentence for some repeat drug crimes.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act requires a prison sentence for some repeat drug crimes.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
  • Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has certain prior convictions.
  • Relating to: Relating to controlled substances.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Judiciary.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act requires a prison sentence for some repeat drug crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance when the person has certain prior convictions.
Relating to: Relating to controlled substances.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2142
Sponsored by Representative BOSHART DAVIS (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 requires a prison sentence for some repeat drug crimes. (Flesch Readability
Score: 80.3).
Requires a prison sentence for the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance
when the person has certain prior convictions.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to controlled substances; amending ORS 475.925.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 475.925 is amended to read:
475.925. When a person is convicted of the unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled
substance, the court shall sentence the person to a term of incarceration [ ranging from ] as
follows:
(1) 58 months to 130 months, depending on the person’s criminal history, if the delivery or
manufacture involves:
(a) 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine;
(b) 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of metham-
phetamine, its salts, isomers or salts of its isomers;
(c) 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;
(d) 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, or
any substituted derivative of fentanyl as defined by the rules of the State Board of Pharmacy; or
(e) 100 grams or more or 500 or more pills, tablets or capsules of a mixture or substance con-
taining a detectable amount of ecstasy.
(2) 34 months to 72 months, depending on the person’s criminal history, if the delivery or man-
ufacture involves:
(a) 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine;
(b) 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of metham-
phetamine, its salts, isomers or salts of its isomers;
(c) 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;
(d) 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, or
any substituted derivative of fentanyl as defined by the rules of the State Board of Pharmacy; or
(e) 50 grams or more or 250 or more pills, tablets or capsules of a mixture or substance con-
taining a detectable amount of ecstasy.
(3) 36 months, or any term of incarceration required by law or prescribed by the sen-
tencing guidelines of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, whichever is longer, if the
person has a conviction for a previous unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled
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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substance, or attempted delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance, within the pre-
vious five years.
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