HB2233 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Sanchez, Representative Andersen,, Chaichi,, Chotzen,, Fragala,, Gamba,, McLain,, Pham H,, Walters,, Senator Gelser Blouin,, Taylor,, Woods,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

Digest: The Act would provide money for legal help to adults in custody at one prison in Oregon.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act would provide money for legal help to adults in custody at one prison in Oregon.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs the commission to grant funds to the Oregon Justice Resource Center for purposes of the program.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-21 House
Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-02-21 House
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-02-18 House
Work Session held.
2025-02-11 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would provide money for legal help to adults in custody at one prison in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal services to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs the commission to grant funds to the Oregon Justice Resource Center for purposes of the program.
Directs the commission and center to evaluate the program and report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to corrections no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets December 31, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to public safety; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2233
Sponsored by Representative SANCHEZ; Representatives CHOTZEN, FRAGALA, GAMBA, MCLAIN, PHAM H,
Senators GELSER BLOUIN, TAYLOR, WOODS (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 would provide money for legal help to adults in custody at one prison in
Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program to provide legal ser-
vices to assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facil-
ity.
Directs the commission to grant funds to the Oregon Justice Resource Center for purposes of
the program.
Directs the commission and center to evaluate the program and report to an interim committee
of the Legislative Assembly related to corrections no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets December 31, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to public safety; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall establish a program to
provide legal services that assist adults in custody who are serving sentences at the Coffee
Creek Correctional Facility to reenter and reintegrate into local communities, to reduce
vulnerability to domestic violence, to obtain employment, housing services and other benefits
and to help with any other legal issue facing an adult in custody.
(2) The commission shall carry out the purposes of subsection (1) of this section by
granting to the Oregon Justice Resource Center an amount sufficient for the center to em-
ploy attorneys, as needed, and to provide necessary support for the attorneys’ work.
(3) The commission and the Oregon Justice Resource Center shall evaluate the oper-
ations and success of the program and report the results of the evaluation to an interim
committee of the Legislative Assembly related to corrections no later than September 15,
2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on December 31, 2027.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $1,200,000 for the
purpose of making a grant to the Oregon Justice Resource Center to fund the legal services
program described in 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
on its passage.
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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