HB2497 • 2025

Requires the Judicial Department to study options for improving court access for victims of domestic violence in this state.

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Judicial Department to study options for improving court access for victims of domestic violence in this state.

Digest: The Act directs the OJD to study how to improve court access for victims of domestic violence in this state.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs the OJD to study how to improve court access for victims of domestic violence in this state.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for improving court access for victims of domestic violence in this state.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

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 directs the OJD to study how to improve court access for victims of domestic violence in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for improving court access for victims of domestic violence in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to domestic violence.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2497
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Judiciary for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 directs the OJD to study how to improve court access for victims of domestic
violence in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Judicial Department to study options for improving court access for victims of
domestic violence in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees
of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to domestic violence.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Judicial Department shall study options for improving court access for
victims of domestic violence in this state. The department shall submit a report in the
manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the
interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than Sep-
tember 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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